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| - I like the bread with olive oil and spices. The food is okay. I'm spoiled though. My lady's from a big Italian family. Once you've had her grandma's cooking, there's really just no going back. The service is a little slow at times, but they are very accommodating with odd / special requests. We started with the Mozzarella Fritta, which are as close to mozzarella sticks as you get at the RMG. Wedges of cheese breaded and fried and served with a red sauce on the side and basil pesto over the top.
For the entree we split the Shrimp Portofino - sauteed shrimp with mushrooms, pine nuts and spinach in a tangy lemon butter sauce with angel hair pasta on the side. The sauce is all in/on the shrimp spinach side, and we got a side of asiago cheese sauce (closest to alfredo they've got) for the pasta. It was all pretty tasty and all in all we were happy with the food, the portions and the prices. Nothing was mind blowingly good, but the Mama's Trio (lasagna, chicken cannelloni and chicken parmesan) looked pretty damn good from across the table. It looked better than the Tour of Italy thing at Olive Garden, definitely bigger portion wise and I heard it was tasty though I didn't have room to try any.
If you ask, they will bring you garlic butter for dipping your bread in instead of olive oil. I prefer the olive oil, but if you're feeling indulgent and garlicly, sometimes it's nice to have that option.
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