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| - Really, just terrible. Bad service, awful food, expensive. We took some westside family members to see Little Italy, and they insisted on eating at a place with outdoor tables -- the one bright spot, we had lovely weather. This was a Saturday afternoon, about 1:30PM. The place was mostly empty but even so, we had appalling service. Waited to get water, waited for our orders to be taken...waited FOREVER for our food and then longer for our check. I'd guess it took about 2 to 2.5 hours for 4 adults and one child to eat lunch! This was not "leisurely" but annoying. We had an antsy kid with us! The wait made us miss some of the things we wanted to see that afternoon.
Had the food been delicious, this might have been partly forgiveable, but it was just awful. I've had far better meals at Olive Garden. This was NOT authentic Italian food. I had an artichoke pizza -- a huge cracker-type crust topped with gobs of ricotta, CANNED artichokes (cold) and lots of canned spinach. My husband had "eggplant de giorno", which was two tiny thin slices of eggplant topped with giant globs of ricotta ($9). One guest had chicken parm, which was baked chicken with MORE RICOTTA and some pasta, and the other had fettucini with spring vegetables -- those were $22 and $24 EACH, with no salads. The fettucini which I tasted was gummy noodles, all clumped up, in what tasted like watered down Campbell's tomato soup. Seriously. Oh -- two people had lentil soup, which came lukewarm and mostly some kind of grain (barley?) and hardly any lentils. One person didn't even finish it! ($5 for a small bowl).
Bread was good, and the one nice touch was they brought us a complimentary bowl of fresh blueberries at the end -- maybe out of embarrassment at making wait such ridiculous times for such terrible food.
Probably the worst meal I have ever had in Little Italy. On top, when we went inside to use the bathroom, the restaurant is grimey and rundown, totally lacking in either charm or cleanliness. Staff is apathetic. AVOID! AVOID!
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