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| - Found the restaurant from Groupon, which boasted a 4-course meal for 2. Sorry can't find price paid (maybe max. $60)
Initial impression: small Italian restaurant, just one, much older gentleman server. Asked us to have a seat at a small table for 2, when it was a mostly empty restaurant. So we sat at a slightly larger table by the window. He sat us with the wine menu, but took about 5 minutes to receive the food menu, after he was finished tending to the other 2 tables.
Atmosphere: Typical Italian music in the background, which later changed to Ricky Martin, then back to the classic Italian hits... UFC fight on TV.
Service: food came out very quickly. Waiter service was quite unassertive. I don't think he cracked a smile the entire night. He was setting an entire other table, in a basically empty restaurant, while we were finished and waiting to pay and leave
Food: bruschetta to start (very measly, see photo) - I joked, "where's the other half? Haha" and he said "it is $2.50 another piece if you want". We also ordered grilled calamari and warm mushroom salad as appetizers. Both were "okay" maybe 2.5/5. Main course, we both ordered shrimp and lobster rosé linguine. 2 pieces of shrimp, not sure if there was any lobster involved TBH, must have been the very finely shredded type (yum..). 2.5/5 as well for me. Lemon sorbet dessert was light and refreshing.
Finale: the bill had a comment, written "please tip on $85-" whatever, to ensure we left a proper tip in the end. Very classy... the restaurant had no personal touch and was not enjoyable
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