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| - I went to Pasta Cucina on Friday 3/29/13 with 4 other women. One of the women had chosen this place for dinner to celebrate the birthday of one of the women in our group.
The decor at the restaurant is very nice. It's very open and comfortable. There are "lemon trees" throughout the restaurant. The ceiling is pained to look like blue skies with puffy white clouds, and the kitchen open so you can see what the cooks are doing.
Our reservation was for 7pm. We had planned to be done around 8:45pm, we could go to the 9pm bingo session, then around 10pm go to the Spazmatics show. So much for plans.
The hostess was very friendly and seated us immediately. There was supposed to be 6 of us for dinner, so the hostess sat us a big round table with a huge "lazy Susan" in the center.
Once we sat down that's all we did. We sat and sat and sat some more. A female server walked by after about 10 minutes and said "I'll be back" ( in her case was that a promise or threat)? After another 10 minutes the same server comes back and takes our drink order...We still had NOTHING...no water, no bread, just our menus.
Okay, so we place our drink order. About 10 minutes later someone comes by to pour us water. Then a few minutes later the server delivers two baskets of bread. The bread was bread sticks, similar to what's served at Olive Garden. Not very impressing. What was nice was the bread is served with bowls of marinara sauce and fettuccine sauce (at no extra charge), and there's olive oil and balsamic vinegar at the table. Well, at least now we have bread to distract us, though we still don't have our beverages.
About 10 minutes later our beverages and salads are delivered. The salads were nothing to write home about. Iceberg lettuce that in some instances was wilted and some shredded red cabbage. No tomatoes or peperoncini (this is an Italian restaurant, right)? There we are with our less than stellar salads. We ate slowly...maybe about 20 minutes and still ended up turning to the bread again (and it really was nothing to brag about, but I hadn't eaten all day).
FINALLY the entrees get delivered. 2 of us ordered the Frutti di Mar, the birthday girl ordered the Parmesan Shrimp, another person ordered the ravioli, and I ordered the Chicken with Artichoke.
The Frutti di Mar had mussels that were basically room temperature and the pasta was lukewarm.
The Shrimp Parmesan was a big plate of pasta with shrimp. It looked okay, but I didn't try it.
The ravioli looked good. I'm not a fan of ravioli, but the dish looked good. Each ravioli was round in shape, probably about 2 inches around and there were at least 8 on the plate with a good amount of sauce.
My Chicken with Artichoke was good. Not the best in the world, but okay (it was only $9.99). Quality-wise it was better than Olive Garden, but honestly I think Romano's Macaroni grill has better food. It was a light oil sauce, a bit heavy on the lemon juice, a fair amount of artichoke and chicken with a sprinkling of capers. The serving was quite large for the price.
The kicker that made me really dislike my experience and the server was what happened next. Both my friend with the ravioli and myself like A LOT of grated cheese on our entrees. To the point that people will tease and said "have a little pasta with your cheese). Granted my friend REALLY puts a ton of cheese on her entree, but that is how SHE likes it. It's no one's business.
There was a different girl handling the cheese grating job. She was VERY nice, considerate, helpful and accommodating. She ended up running out of cheese and had to get more.
When she got back she was grating cheese over my plate and our so-called server came back to the table by now. She saw the girl putting the cheese on my entree and said "That's going to be $10 extra" ( a comment I found completely inappropriate and nasty). So, I responded "And that will come out of you tip"!! At that she didn't say anything...no apology or anything. She just walked away.
One of the woman had brought a cake which they let us keep in the kitchen and they did not charge a cake cutting fee, which was nice.
Overall I was not impressed. No one complained to management because they didn't want to make a scene during our friend's birthday. But I was tempted, especially after that servers very rude and inappropriate comment. Had we'd been regulars and she had a "relationship" with us, then the comment might have been funny. However, to a group of people who don't dine there on a regular basis nor know her that was uncalled for!!
For a sit down restaurant in a casino the prices were okay, but I really wouldn't go out of my way to eat there again.
I think the buffet would be where I'd end up next time.
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