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| - Friends wanted me to try this Italian restaurant and pizza emporium, which is known to serve tasty food at very reasonable prices. Although I haven't sampled the pizza yet, I was pleased with most of what I had here for dinner; and for once, rather than being presented with droopy and lifeless spaghetti with a thin and insipid sauce, had an all you can eat pasta (AYCEP) experience where the pasta and sauce were on par with what you would get if you ordered a single-serving pasta entree outright. As it was, with everything I ate, I just supplemented my Thin Spaghetti & Bolognese Sauce AYCEP entree once with some extra pasta and sauce--but not a whole bowl's worth. The AYCEP deal is a good one, for at only $9.89 it comes with bread and a cup of soup or salad. Although, since I chose to pay extra for an order of Antipasto as a starter, I didn't order a side salad for myself, my eyes popped at how big and good my tablemates' side salads looked. Two meatballs or one sausage can be added to any AYCEP dish for $2.00. I of course opted to add both varieties of Italian meats.
The Italian Wedding Soup, with slightly bigger meatballs than usually found in such a dish, was good--if a bit peppery. And, except for the lettuce leaves on the Antipasto platter not appearing to be very fresh, the rest of this concoction of assorted meats, cheeses, peppers, artichoke hearts, olives, and greens was very good. The appearance of the dishes served was also appealing, with a wreath of pepperoni circling the edges of the Antipasto platter, and my AYCEP Spaghetti with Bolognese Sauce, meatballs, and sausage arriving composed as a smiley face, with the 2 large meatballs placed as eyes, and the sausage situated in the bowl as a grinning mouth. (Actually, on closer inspection my entree looked more like the mustachioed face of Groucho Marx!) The Bolognese Sauce contained little meat but tasted pretty good anyway. And the sausage was slightly overcooked but had a nice flavor to it nonetheless. Who needed more meat in the sauce anyway when each dense meatball weighed in at about a 1/3 of a pound or more?
Service was efficient and very friendly. The place is very casual, but linen napkins are served with silverware. Based on how the pizza looked at adjoining diners' tables, I intend to return soon to give the pizza a try, since I have heard accolades about it, and this place literally bills itself as a "pizza joint," after all!
Even though there were a few glitches in food preparation, I enjoyed myself here on my one outing. So, 3-1/2 stars overall!
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