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| - I bought the Groupon value $20 because I saw the pork Osso Bucco on the menu. I love Osso Bucco, even pork. It was $18.95 and the meat potion was really small. The meat, although it was not hopelessly adhered to the bone, meat itself was very hard, dry, like it was baked in the oven for hours without fluids. The meat was very very bland. I asked for extra gravy but the gravy was not at all tasty and did not improve the meat. It was so horrid, ICK! I had also ordered a $3 caesar salad, but the salad, tho tasty, was also very small in portion.
I ate alone.
I was so disappointed. I could not see myself getting through that osso bucco, so the waitress took it away. She offered to not charge me, but I already out the money for the Groupon. I could not find anything else on the small dinner menu to use up my $20. The manager came to talk to me. He said all the pork shanks were the same, and he would not be able to find me a less dry piece. I never sent back osso bucco before, but I did this one. I got talked into the spaghetti squash for $19.95, with scampi cream sauce and 4 large shrimp. It tasted much better than the osso bucco, but I felt the shrimp was hard , audibly crunchy even tho it was not fried, and overdone. It is not anything I would order again.
The restaurant also was sooooo noisy, as soon as I walked in there I was overwhelmed with such a roar of noise. Nothing in the decor dampens the sound, all hard surfaces. I sat outside on the patio, which had less of a roar.
I am giving it a 2 star instead of one, because the service was not rude, it was not the waitress's fault I didn't like the osso bucco, and the manager did come to talk to me about the osso bucco and how they "braise" it and tried to help me find something else on the menu, and he did take the $3 salad off my bill.
I do not drink wine so cannot comment on that. I will never come back here again, even for free food. I couldn't wait to come back to my computer to write this review.
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