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| - Went for a Sunday evening dinner with some new friends - 4 of us all together. I have eaten a lot of Italian food in my time and this was honestly the worst I have ever had. I've had freezer meals that were more Italian in style and tasted better than that. Even value Italian freezer meals that were better. We were guests of our friends, but if I'd been paying I'd have sent everything back, but I don't like to make a fuss if I am not paying the bill (nor chose the restaurant).
The services was adequate - relatively timely, I guess - but the waiter rushed around and disappeared twice while we were trying to order drinks which was a bit disconcerting. I think he was putting the beer we had ordered in the fridge, to be honest. Wonder why none was already in there.
I had to ask for a glass of water (took some getting because the waiter was running around) and received a tiny tumbler - no glasses of water for everyone as you'd usually expect. Also, the bread we were served was at least a day or more old - hard for the outer half inch inside the crust and tough as old boots. That shows a lot of cost cutting when you don't even throw out the sliced bread at the end of each day's service and is a good sign for why the rest of the food was so horrible. The parmesan was also pretty dry and old. If you can't even get the basics right, it doesn't bode well. Sure enough, the main courses were dire.
Dishes we had:
Veal pasta: Pasta was undercooked, sauce was bland, vegetables overcooked and the veal was so tough it must have been the fastest runner to avoid the slaughterhouse for such a long life. It was awful.
Chicken Parmigiana: The chicken was also incredibly tough and rubbery and was burnt on the bottom. The pasta was also undercooked. It was also pretty bland and I suspect it was reheated at least once. Horrible.
My friends had a chicken dish (the chicken was ok, but the salad was wilted and looked old. Apparently the vegetables were also pretty dire) and a steak (the steak was tough, undercooked and the vegetables with it were also overcooked and pretty bad).
Not one of us finished our meals and in typical over-polite style, we just politely paid our bill and left. I'd never go back here again and would actively warn people against it. Our friends said they had one previous meal here and thought it was pretty good, so our immediate thought was that there is more than one chef and we chose a night where the trainee was on? But the poor food storage/shelf life decisions showed and general incompetence of the cooking makes me wonder if it is more than that.
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