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| - I really really wanted this place to be my favorite restaurant in Tremont.
Decidedly not so. As everyone has mentioned, it's a TINY room, very dark and very cool. I want to go back for cocktails on a snowy night in December.
Just don't eat there. Trust me. The menu is (from a design viewpoint) kind of a joke. There are about 6 pages of menu and about 6 pages of blah blah talking about how everything is Old World, made from scratch etc. Listen Bartender Lady, if your food can't speak for itself, no amount of text is going to convince me otherwise. Me and my girlfriend went on a Friday night and were very disappointed in the experience. We got the meatball app, which is literally TWO meatballs, smaller than golf balls, for $8. Friends, these are not worth four dollars a piece. Bland bland bland, much like everything else we had. So we had 3 cocktails total, the two meatballs, two 'piccolini' pizzas and a pasta entree. $85 and we were still hungry when we left.
I hate to be the world's biggest cynic, but I have a really REALLY hard time believing that everything is made from scratch in a restaurant that is open two nights a week for ten hours total over those two days. I've worked in the business for a long time, there's simply no way they've making all that stuff fresh and it really doesn't taste like it. I really don't mind paying good money but it's gotta be worth it and Tony's is just not worth it. I've honestly had better Italian at Brio. Sad but true.
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