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| - Came in around 4:50 pm and the place was empty but was starting to fill up just as I was leaving. Decor and ambiance is always nice and pretty; sometimes you just need a quiet place to have dinner. The food, at least the food I got tonight, is not the quality I've usually gotten. Bread for the table came without a bread knife so I was forced to saw through it with the knife rolled up in my napkin which is not made for that job. Salads, one ranch and one with a vinaigrette for my companion, were fine, but the vinaigrette was so weighed down by pepper that it was quite needlessly spicy. Entrees were the Pollo Caprese and the Pasta De Mare. Pollo Caprese consisted of a whole 'grilled' chicken breast (no real char or grilled flavor whatsoever), capellini pomodoro (spaghetti covered in a spicy red sauce with halved cherry tomatoes in it, but outside of a mild spiciness there was no flavor at all, the pasta itself was bland as it comes), and some arugula covered in a very sour vinaigrette.
Pasta De Mare is supposed to come with mussels, shrimp, and scallops on top of fettuccine and more pomodoro sauce but we asked for alfredo sauce instead. Sauce was way too thick and for the price of the dish ($18.50) I expected more on top of it. To be fair there was more than enough mussels put in, but there were only two little scallops and three little shrimps on it. My companion loves mussels so that was fine with her.
Service was just fine. Our waitress was pleasant and prompt. We were mostly just disappointed about the food but it wasn't terrible (nowhere near it enough to lodge a complaint). Unfortunately it was bland enough for us to not be back for a while, but by no means would I not believe the cooks were just having an off night.
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