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| - This place was above 5 stars before... This place used to make me feel like I was eating authentic Sicilian food in NY.
Ever since the original owner passed away, this place went down the drain. My personal opinion. When the original owner (the Sicilian guy, super nice) was there, he always greeted everybody that was eating in his restaurant, made sure if everybody was 100% satisfied and made us laugh. I loved his service and he always went out of his way to give us better services. Now that, some family member (son in law?) took over and this place became like regular ordinary Italian place.
We were so excited to have seafood salad, baked clams, linguine with white clam sauce and arancini on Christmas Eve day. This new owner changes the menu for every occasion (Christmas eve, Valentine and so and so) to regular Italian restaurants' menu, because it's easy for them to prepare. We ended up eating Cioppino or shrimp scampi or something. I forgot because it wasn't memorable.
Do you know how important for old fashioned NY Italian (Sicilian) to eat seafood salad on Christmas Eve!!?? It's a must!! It's a tradition!! If you ask any Sicilian person that's living in Brooklyn what they eat on Christmas eve, they would say insalata di mar!!!
Since this was the only place I was able to grab real Sicilian style Christmas dinner, I am very disappointed.
Nothing special here anymore. Ciao.
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