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| - Today was the first day Chinato offered lunch, so I went there with a few friends from work. The menu is pretty extensive, and fairly authentic. The restaurant serves things like beef tongue, oxtails, calf liver, etc along with gourmet pizzas, paninis and pasta. The drink menu looks pretty good too. Next time!
For lunch, we tried some of the pizzas, the pappardelle pasta, the canneloni, and the mussels. The food was delicious! My only qualms with the place are these: they did not bring you a bread basket - and although it's nice to have a waiter come by and serve you bread piece by piece, it gets a little annoying if he keeps bringing bread to people who don't want more and then not bringing bread to people who do want more. They might want to rethink the bread basket-less idea.
Further, the dishes were all pretty small - from the pizza to the mini canneloni entree! I might not have thought much about this, seeing as its an upscale place (which seems like it might tend towards the smaller, gourmet portions, BUT the waitress prefaced our food by saying that all the portions were "pretty hefty" and a good size. So we were all expecting a little more sizeable than the mini salad, mini canneloni and small, thin crust pizzas.
Overall a good experience - just dont expect big portions for your money.
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