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| - This is the most disappointing dining experience I've had in years. The reviews made this restaurant look fantastic. The menu touts handmade pasta. But what we received was neither.
We ordered the chicken picatta and the eggplant parmigiana. I worked for a time at Macaroni Grill, and let me just say that the eggplant parmesan at Macaroni Grill is FAR superior. The eggplant was greasy and limp, as if fried at too low a temperature or several hours ago. I requested the pasta marinara, which was, as it turns out, penne pasta with bland marinara sauce dumped on top. The sauce was glassy and watery, not well-salted, and not well flavored. The penne was NOT handmade. I've had better pasta from a grocery store.
The chicken picatta was truly awful. The picatta sauce was clearly made with cornstarch (not a typical ingredient in picatta sauce, for the record) and had very little flavor, other than the bountiful capers. It looked like glue, and tasted very similar. It was served with pasta marinara (six tubes!) and about 6 pieces of steamed vegetable, which was not cooked through.
For a total of $68 (tip not included, but we did have wine), this was a huge waste of money. I would not return.
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