SO I have been visiting Mark Rich's for years regularly for their good ol lunch specials. Where else can you take three people for lunch and the bill comes out to $15.00??? What??? I must say I know how good this place can be and its been a while since I have seen it. The place always used to be rockin and now you go in and theres hardly anyone there. Like I said we come for lunch....rarely for dinner so it may just be a lunch thing? The last time I visited we were the only ones there.
The service is always pretty good so no real complaints there. We always order the garlic knots. Love them. Love love love. We usually ask them to do "light" on the oil but this time we forgot. Dangit. It was swimming in oil....and by swimming I mean the poor knots were crying for help. We ate it anyway as we dabbed as much oil as we could. For lunch we ordered the pasta lunch. We always order the penne pasta with pink sauce. Its not really on the lunch menu but they modify their spaghetti for an additional charge for the pink sauce. The last couple times the pasta just has zero flavor. This last time the noodles were mushy, the sauce had no flavor and the garlic bread was burnt. Well actually I had a burnt piece and a good piece and same for the BF.
This place is just tired. It needs a new lift or something. I am so sad to say all this because I have always been a big fan of their pizza and pasta. Occasionally you would see Mark in there greeting the customers and I havent seen him in years. Maybe its the new location. Who knows. We do always make fun of all the celebrity pictures autographed by someone with the same pen and same writing. Pretty amusing I must say. Anyways, I think we will give this place a rest for now and maybe visit for dinner to change it up. I havent given up on you yet Mark.