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| - D'Agnese's Bistro in Seven Hills is a relatively new addition to the landscape of local Italian Restaurants, but certainly no newcomer - Franco Boffice has been in the restaurant business his whole life, his father operated restaurants around Montreal, Quebec before Franco opened his first restaurant in New Jersey, on the Jersey Shore in 1968. He opened at the corner of Pleasant Valley and Broadview in 1989 and has been going strong ever since, moving the restaurant operation to Royalton Road near Broadview and running a party center in the Seven Hills spot before converting it back into a sit down restaurant.
The food is classic Italian with a broad selection of sandwiches, salads, pastas and beef, chicken and seafood entrees. The decor is contemporary; well lit and comfortable with white paper on the tables. The Italian soundtrack was your standard "Frank and Dino" sort of thing, probably a little on the loud side but the restaurant had only two parties dining when we came in.
At the time of this review, there is a "Like us on Facebook" special plus an online coupon that was very lucrative for our party of five - the "Like" special resulted in a free order of Bruschetta; the coupon resulted in two free pizzas for the table since we were a party of five.
The bruschetta was big; 16-20 total pieces of perfectly toasted bruschetta topped with a very fresh tasting tomato, celery and basil topping dressed in a tangy sort of vinaigrette with a balsamic drizzle. The Pizzas were small appetizer pizzas, with white sauce and roasted chicken and artichoke hearts. They were also accompanied by diced tomatoes dressed with a vinaigrette on greens.
The potato soup and the sausage soup were amazing. The potato soup was slightly cheesy, creamy and earthy. The sausage soup was spicy and meaty. One of our party had the Bistro Salad which was a large dinner salad with roasted chicken. She enjoyed it and the vinaigrette it came with - the portion was very large. The order of kid's spaghetti and meatballs was declared delicious and completely finished. We also brought home most of a Pollo Pesto pizza; feta cheese and chicken and artichoke hearts with pesto on a light crust, an excellent pizza but there was so much food we couldn't finish.
We also ordered spaghetti carbonara which was very good, and the smothered chicken came with gnocchi and red sauce - perfectly fork tender gnocchi, sweet but savory sauce - it was very good. And the chicken was delicious also; pounded and seared, then smothered in cheese, mushroom, mustard sauce and bacon. Too much to finish.
There was no dessert; we didn't have a chance after all the food we ate let alone what we brought home.
All in all, a good dinner and the service was pretty good as well. Our waiter was knowledgeable and generally prompt and we didn't feel like we waited for our food. We enjoyed everything about our visit to D'Agnese's Bistro in Seven Hills today and are likely to return.
Wed - Sat they are open til 10 PM
Sundays they close at 6.
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