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| - WOW - 18 months later Artie Bucco Jr sent me a Yelp message!
"David S.
12 hours ago
Hi Sam,
This is David, your waiter who you skewered last year at Tommy V's.I have deliberated for some time about reaching out to you. I thought your yelp was pretty unfair to me and very unfair to the restaurant. You say in your profile that you don't waste a place for 1 bad meal or "crappy " waiter. Well, you did! I want to remind you that I asked if you and your dad were here with The Giants, I did not look at you as "Country Bumpkins". You kinda made that up to villainize me.At first I was upset over the calamari and your dad was nice about it. It was your choice to be upset. I tried to lighten up the mood with some levity and you chose to be offended. It is probably good that Yelping back at yelpers is not permitted. I have been serving over 40 years and your review was the nastiest I ever received"
I guess this place is cool with having their servers contact Yelpers regarding reviews!
Original Review:
Wow - what is it with all the love for this place? Have None of you been tot he Italian Grotto?
Maybe this is for the snooty eaters out there - because this place was awful to us. It was 2/3 empty and we get asked if we have a reservation - No, just walk ins... so they sit us right next tot he kitchen by where the waiters come in and out - easily the worst table in the restaurant, and they weren't even busy.
So, I haven't even noticed this when we order a calamari appetizer, which was recommended by apparent not very familiar with good food blogger Jaymee Sire (eisforeat.blogspot.com/2...) I went with 2/4 of what she said to have - the chicken parm and the calamari. The calamari were terrible - I mean, what do we expect, fresh fish in Arizona must be something of an oxymoron...
So this is where things get interesting - the waiter asks us how our rubbery, tasteless calamari is - I being one who doesn't like to send food back tried to hide the truth, but the look on my dad's face was as if his only son came home to say he got an Al Qaeda male general pregnant and they weren't getting married... So the waiter grabs the plate before we can say anything to have them make another batch.. which we didn't want, and shocker, the second batch was even worse...
So at this point dad is furious, and yells at me for eating enough of the bad calamari creepy crawlers (the ones with tentacles are my favorite) so that he can't bitch at the waiter about how bad it was when he comes back.
The waiter takes away the app and comes back with the entrees - now we had ordered a pasta to share and two entrees, thinking he would brought them out for a pasta course then the main dishes - but it all came out at once. As he places the food down, Dad tells the waiter "I've been punished before, it's OK, I get it," and I am part rolling my eyes part trying not to laugh.
That this waiter has looked us up and down as a couple of country bumpkins not realizing my dad is normally a 20-30% tipper, especially when on vacation with a roll of dough in his pocket. So then, to add insult to injury, this Artie Bucco wannabe comes back to check on how the entrees are then quips "So I don't have to take these back? Enjoy!"
Well - Self Fulfilling prophecy jerk-wad - I would be nicer to customers based on how mediocre your food was - I am a Chicken Parmesan SLUT - I ate maybe 2/3 of it. The pasta bolognese? MEH... Dad unfortunately ordered fish for his main dish, which was again NOT fresh, so he pretty much at all the rest of the pasta t the table.
I will never go back here - give me the Italian Grotto every day, where the food is better, the servers have personality, and the food is amazing - strange how THEIR calamari tastes fresh...
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