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| - Giving Jamie a bad name! My family was so disappointed. The food was below average and just OK at best. The serving sizes range from extremely small to a medium on the smaller side. I would not recommend the salads at all as the sizing is really off - even our server confused the large salad as a small. I can't even begin to wonder how tiny the small size is!
I'm obviously not Italian but imo... Taste-wise, The pizza was average. Pasta was average (I had some cream based ravioli). The milanese was good (you can't go wrong with tenderized, breaded turkey), but for the price point on all of these I would recommend going elsewhere, like Papa Giuseppes,15 minutes away in Port Credit.
Something awkward about the plating and offering of the mains is that they do not come with any sides like most restaurants would (vegetables? potatoes?), unless stated in the description. So when they brought us our turkey milanese, it was served to us on a lonely plate and it just felt like a barren meal. It just leaves you... wanting more of a meal but who wants to pay an extra $4 for potato chips!
Points for the nice decor, delicious gelato and the server/manager were extremely kind.
We did go to the restaurant during the first few days that it opened, so hopefully they worked out some of the kinks we experienced.
In sum, this place is just your typical, westernized Italian chain restaurant. Don't let the Jamie Oliver branding fool you!
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