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| - Arrived last night to a half filled, freezing cold room. Asked for the air conditioning to be lowered as we were not the only ones freezing, as we could tell from the numerous people around us hugging their sweaters. They accommodated, for an hour until they freeze chilled us again.
We waited, and waited and then waited some more to try to flag down a server. Finally we were able to order wine but before we could proceed to our food order, he spun on his heels and raced to the bar. When the wine arrived 10 minutes later we asked for water and bread and off he went. Water arrived. Bread did not until 10 minutes later, when we asked again. We finally placed our order to a clearly harried and very gruff waiter, who appeared to be the manager.
Half an hour later when the tables around us who had ordered after us received their starters, we flagged down the waiter to ask where ours were and he seemed surprised that we even asked and said, "I didn't forget about you, you know." The salads showed up a few minutes later, clearly forgotten.
Neither wine, nor water were topped up at anytime during the meal.
The salads were fine, a beet salad and a caesar salads, both of ample size and, as I said, fine.
The mains were okay. The pumpkin filled pasta was quite good. The daily special of veal pizzialoa was tender and the vegetables were crisp tender and very good. The sauce was obviously jarred tomato sauce with a handful of capers thrown in and nary a black olive in sight. Fine.
Empty plates sat for a very long time and we were then rushed out.
Would I return, not so much. Lack of service simply wrecked the experience. Too bad.
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