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| - This place is classic east coast Italian, with parking in the rear and an unmarked back door entrance included. Definitely a run down, hole in the wall type of place with a musty smell and a decor I'm sure hasn't ever changed in the decades this place has existed.
Five of us came in on Saturday night on a whim to "try something different" from our usual haunts. Boy was this place different! We sat in the bar area where several tvs were showing the cards preseason game, and one muted tv was on the sound of music...
There were 3 or 4 other parties in the bar area, average age was approx 68. Fortunately none of them really had any problem with our obnoxious drunkenness. Not sure how many people were in the dining room portion of the restaurant, but suffice it to say the place was far from empty, which is always a good sign. But there was only 1 bartender/waitress working in the bar area, and though we were more than patient and amiable, she was still very flustered with her duties. Eh, we were drunk and didn't care.
On to the food. We ordered the eggplant rollatini and mozz sticks to start, a pizza, manicotti, chicken parm, and fettuccine alfredo. Everything was pretty good, huge portioned, relatively cheap, traditional italian(-american) food. It really hit the spot! The marinara sauce was incredible, and the manicotti was bursting with ricotta. The pizza was good, the chicken parm standard (the spaghetti was cooked perfectly al dente), and the fettuccine was probably the loser of the group (my meal, of course) - it was good, but not as creamy as I had hoped.
All in all, this was exactly the type of experience we expected and went looking for. I honestly have a feeling we'll all be back.
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