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| - My first impressions of this place were "wow it's busy" and "interesting croud". I arrived ahead of my party and noticed a packed front waiting area with a few people seated at the bar and another table, having drinks. When my party did arrive, we didn't have to wait long though I don't think this would be most people's experience. I heard that Terroni doesn't take reservations but we somehow managed to get seated quickly. Perhaps it was because we were such a large party or perhaps someone had an in. Either way, we managed to get our first round of drink orders in while still waiting on a few from our party to arrive.
We were seated right beside the open kitchen which threw me off a little since I almost never smelled the aroma's of food wafting from behind me. I would think with menu so delectable looking as Terroni's, you would also have sensory overload having been seated beside the kitchen but I only ever caught tiny wafts here and there.
The DECOR of the interior is "rustic". We were seated at a long wooden table with a huge, thick former tree as the top. There is varied artwork on the wall from a huge map of the world to random neon words/letter. Oh and not to mention the live DJ. After much deep debate and consideration, it was decided that the tacky music spun by the DJ was probably required at blaring noise levels in order to drown out all ongoing conversations on the dinning floor. The tables did offer a good amount of privacy but it can be imagined that with 50 some-odd dinners in one place, it could get annoying to have to hear loud conversations and then shout over them to hear your own party from the other end of the table. With the DJ blaring music then everyone is simply required to shout over the music to their own parties and in the end you just hear tacky music.
Voila!
CLIENTELE: Very eclectic crowd. From two guys in business suits to groups of tweens having a birthday party. From well dressed to very casual. From old to young. From couples to families.
As for FOOD: The menu was very complete! It offered appetizers, salads, pasta mains, steak mains, pizza etc. I opted for Pizze Veloce ($18) which is a basic mushroom pizza. Many others opted for pizza as well with a few getting pasta and one got steak. The portions of the food are greatly varied. If you are hungry get the pizza. It is massive. The pasta portions are small and so was my friend's meat dish which was actually not the dish she had order. Having been starving, my friend had opted for a full steak but what arrived was cut up steak. It didn't look very filling and she wasn't full. Anyone who had ordered pasta was still starving. As for my pizza. It was blah. It really lacked any sense of self worth. It just threw itself together without any pizzaz. I really expected that with such a basic pizza, I would at least get some fresh or ever dried herbs on it but it was so boring. I was dying to see the dessert menu. I have a sweet tooth for anything chocolate and was super happy to see the first item on the dessert menu ($8 all items) was flourless chocolate cake with white ganache. There was also a second chocolatey cake dessert to choose from amongst gelato, tiramisu, panna cotta and a few others. I chose the warm flourless cake and it was delish! It had a molten middle which was rich.
As for SERVICE: Our server was very nice and accommodating! That being said, she never introduced herself and service kept dropping off as we continued our meal. In the beginning she took drink orders from half the table. She was flagged down shortly after to take the drink orders for the other half. She came back and filled water. She came back again to ask about drinks again and we asked to put in our orders. An earlier appetizer order was never put in. Our bread baskets were devoured when they arrived just before our food started to arrive. Our food was very prompt which was the best part of the service hands down. The food arrived from different servers who also came around with pepper. I can't remember the next time we saw our server but we finally flagged her down for the desert menus and flagged her down again to put the order in. 3 hours after we first arrived we flagged the server down one last time to beg her to let us pay our bill since some members of the party needed to use plastic to pay.
OVERALL: I would go for dessert. Most likely best to go with a small party. Service was good, food was okay. Nothing special to set them apart and justify their prices but this place was very popular with all types of people.
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