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| - Dante...what happened?
Some 1-2 years after I consumed your linguine alla carbonara at your Dante restaurant, I remembered it with fondness and nostalgia and realized you had a pasta restaurant in Strongsville! Sweet tears of joy. I got some friends to go with me, because they were probably sick of me talking about how great the carbonara was and wanted to try it for themselves.
We started off with bread, which came with some white bean hummus. The bread smelled better than it tasted, and the white bean hummus wasn't too tasty. We asked for some balsamic instead, and I readily dipped my bread in that instead.
We got 6 of taster-sized pastas (8 were available), some lamb meatballs and two appetizers. I thought the rice croquette was tasty. Crispy on the outside, moist on the inside. The meatballs were also tasty and highlighted the "lamb" taste that I love. Most of the pastas were forgettable. And worst of all was the carbonara. It was drenched in cream, and with an entire poached egg on top, once I broke the egg, it became a noodle soup. The egg totally overpowered the rest of the pasta and I was incredibly disappointed. Our entire table was vastly disappointed with the pastas. Our table agreed that the best of the worst were the ravioli and strozzapretti.
Unfortunately our disappointment in the meal extended to the desserts; we skipped it, got our check and left. I can't say I'm too interested in going to any more of Dante's restaurants after this experience either.
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