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| - I have mixed feelings about this place. Related to the Chianti group, Fiore is a bit of a more upscale version of their restaurants. Whereas Fiore tries to shoot more for the family and the worker markets, Chianti wants the upscale diners, young couples and such. It's been a popular mainstay in Calgary for decades, and offers an ever popular discounted pasta menu from Sunday to Tuesday (just like Chianti).
In the meals I have had, there's been calamari, crab cakes and so on, and they were done fairly well, but just a little short of outstanding. But in the case of the pasta and sauces, I'll have to give it an average rating. Definately not fresh pasta, and the sauces were a bit more watery than I would like. There's still flavour, but just not much body to the sauce, which was a bit of a turn off. Still, since they don't seem to be serving fresh pasta, it does give them a little flexibility in that they can offer other types of pasta as well as whole wheat or gluten-free.
Service was ok, not the fastest. Water glasses remained pretty empty until I flagged people down. Still, when I can't complain too much since I did get some decent bread.
Post #9 of the Yelp 30-Day Challenge
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