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| - I came here after a long study session and super hungry. I decided to splurge a little and buy some pasta from here since it's quite expensive compared to the rest of the food on campus (almost double). Seeing as how the price is quite high, I expected the quality of the food to be held to a greater standard. I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO WRONG IN MY LIFE.
I ordered the pesto alfredo fettuccine with chicken. It came out to about 17 dollars. RIP my wallet.
The pasta is served in a depressing black takeout container that is placed on a tray. This, I can somewhat overlook as I don't expect dinnerware on campus, but for 17 bucks I'd expect more pasta (or you know, a maybe a plate?) which is dirt cheap to make or buy.
The pasta is ever so slightly overcooked that it feel somewhat al dente but kinda mushy at the same time that it makes your blood boil because you can't figure out what it's supposed to be. The pesto alfredo sauce is bland! It's tasteless and doesn't even have much fragrance to it. Normally pesto, fresh or store bought is very fragrant yet I could not smell or taste any pesto in the sauce. The alfredo sauce was greasy, lumpy, very thick and not at all incorporated. It almost seemed like the person who made it melted just Parmesan cheese and forgot to add the cream altogether.
The chicken was the only good part of the meal that was good. It was tender, had good flavour, colour on it, and some char on it. Not really worth the 3.50 to add it on though since the rest of the dish qualifies to be featured on Kitchen Nightmares.
I've had a 17 dollar plate of pasta on multiple occasions and this is definitely not a 17 dollar plate, scratch that, plastic food container of pasta. If anything, a Michellina's frozen dinner entree for 2 bucks coming from the microwave tastes better!
For what I got, I would rate this lower if I could. The only good thing about this place is that it has one the nicest decor out of all the places on campus and the cute cashier served me with a smile. If I ever wanted to spend around 17 bucks on food for myself again, I'd be better off buying an XL pizza from Pizza Pizza or a 10 piece box from Popeye's.
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