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| - Romano's Macaroni Grill, it's a chain but with consistent food and service. The atmosphere is a cross between an open air piazza and a big city trattoria in Italy. Probably time for a remodel after the same look for over 20+ years. First off the service was friendly and efficient by all involved . It started upon entering, we were greeted by a very friendly hostess who took us to our table. After ordering our food some rosemary foccacia bread was brought to the table and a bottle of cool water, nice touch. One other nice touch from the server also was when she refilled my Iced tea, she also brought a extra glass with ice in it, loved it, nothing worse than luke warm ice tea on refills.
For appetizers we stared of with the Goat Cheese Peppadews Peppers they where a nice mix of a sweet small pepper filled with tangy goat cheese, drizzled with a balsamic glaze and the Spicy Ricotta Meatballs, which where moist flavorful golf ball size meatballs served in a delicious tomato sauce, with the addition of orange and lemon zest. Though not traditional at all, the zest added a nice flavor to the overall dish.
We then each had a salad. The Bibb and Blue Salad was nice mix of Bibb lettuce, blue cheese, pancetta and walnut, and pickled red onions, with a buttermilk dressing. It was good, but I don't think the pickled red onions added anything to the salad for me personally. The Caesar salad was average. I like mine with a little more zing or punch to it with a little more garlic or anchovy flavor to it.
For entrees we had the Spaghetti Carbonara. I was disappointing with the dish because of its lack of flavor overall, though the pasta itself was some of the best I have had, it was cooked perfectly with good texture and bite, like you would find in Italy. Unfortunately that perfect pasta was swimming in a large pool of water or tasteless sauce (not sure what they were going after there). The pasta dish had a few chucks of nicely cooked pancetta, parmesan cheese and a nicely cooked poach egg on top which all sounds and looked good but did not come together with much flavor. I had to add quite a bit of salt and pepper to make it eatable. The Chicken Under a Brick was presented nicely and was well seasoned and flavorful, served with some nice roasted potatoes and grilled asparagus, the skin on the chicken was nicely crisp and flavorful. My only slight complaint being that the chicken was a little bit on the dry side. It probably would have been a better dish if it was cooked on the bone. I do understand they are probable cooking it boneless to appeal more to the masses rather than for people that enjoy a perfectly cooked flavorful moist chicken.
Overall I'd say it was a bit better than average. Worth a trip if you're hungry for some Italian and you're in the area.
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