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| - I purchased a Yelp deal $15 for $20 and was excited to try this place because of the solid reviews. Unfortunately, it was a huge let down, not just in terms of food, but also service. We ordered two of their house specialties: pastrami and corned beef sandwich $10.95 (no side included) and chicken marsala $15.95. When I presented the Yelp deal voucher, the guy manning the counter stared at it for a awhile and was like "Wot's this? So you get $20 off?" and acting as if it was some bogus creation that I was trying to scam them with. I patiently explained to him that it was a legit online deal that I had already paid $15 for this $20 voucher. In the meantime, some inconsiderate parents are letting their two young kids, who presumably just came from tap dancing lessons, clickety-clack all throughout the restaurant. Talk about obnoxious! At checkout, he wanted to charge me $16 something. I told him that total doesn't seem right. He tells me that he is only taking $5 off the bill so I had to reexplain how the Yelp deal is supposed to work. He begrudgingly recalculates the balance as $6.92 and says I can't use my credit card and have to pay cash. I'm thinking to myself that this guy is really trying my patience and can't do simple arithmetic either. Whatever, let's just get the heck out of here. Once we got home and sampled the food, we liked the sandwich filling although I had asked for rye bread and they gave us some mediocre kaiser roll. Unfortunately, the chicken marsala was subpar. The marsala sauce was very subtle and it was more like a buttered pasta. When you take into account the relatively small portion size, it is an even poorer value. For a couple bucks more you could have Cheesecake Factory's much tastier version with a portion size of almost double. In the end, mediocre food + crappy service + poor value = 1.5 to 2 stars. In the future, we'll stick with Rocco's NY Pizzeria (different owner) for our NY Italian fix.
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