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OK, this place has gone seriously downhill with the new management, and the food was bad enough to make Marco Polo weep.
Let's start with the good.... The place is big, the staff was friendly, the bar area was pretty nice, and they had a lot of TV's playing the Cardinal's game. I could totally buy this place as a sports bar.
Now, on to everything else....
The parking situation is abysmal, but hey, that's Avondale for ya... I won't blame this restaurant for the shrieking baby, that blame goes squarely on the shoulder of the parents who were busy getting their drank on.
We ordered:
Apps: Onion Rings / Friend Mushrooms / Moz Sticks
Entree: Steak & Cheese sandwich, the "special" calzone, and the lasagna.
Well, we didn't order the lasagna at first, of the 10 things listed in the pasta section it was the only thing available that wasn't spaghetti and meatballs.
$50.00 for the check, this included drinks & a mediocre tip.
The appetizers came to the table, and as soon as I saw the fried mushrooms I had a bad feeling.
Everything was perfectly shaped and colored. This is because everything certainly came out of a freezer bag 5 minutes ago. The moz sticks were flavorless, the onion rings were perfectly round onion flavored bread rings, and the fried mushrooms were an undercooked disaster of batter, covering the world's smallest mushrooms.
I'm not a super Italian food enthusiast, the kind that expects it to taste like it came from a Tuscan village. I just wanted something that tasted less like fried batter, and more like FOOD.
My wife said the Steak & Cheese was OK. The meat and cheese components were tasty enough, but the previously frozen roll was undercooked and doughy.
The lasagna was rough, Stouffer's® puts out a similar product in the frozen food section of Fry's, so save yourself some money and try that if you want, because this was just not good. No seasoning, bland cheese mix, and straight from the jar sauce that was almost too sweet.
The calzone, the Palermo's Special Calzone, was sadly also from frozen, and I can't let it go! (see what I did there?) It was perfectly shaped, and the outside was crispy, however, like all frozen entrees of this caliber, it was a soggy nightmare on the bottom. Inside it was watery and nasty. No taste, horrible "cheese" filling, and the same disgusting sauce that the lasagna was made with. No Bueno.
The waitstaff was nice, if not a little absent after food delivery, but the food was abysmal. I'm a fat guy who loves to eat, and this had me rethinking everything.
I can tell you that #1 Brothers is right down the road, if you want a better Italian ANYTHING, go there, cause damn.
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