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| - Who're these guys trying to kid? This is Alice Fazooli's with a different name ... same staff, same furnishings, same food, same menus and same quality.
That is not a good thing as the Alice Fazooli's at this location was never any good. I came here for a friend's birthday party once, and I figured why not? I've always walked by it, but never been inside. The layout is... different. It's like they took a parking garage and turned into a restaurant. This idea could have worked really well if not for the weird setup: SCADDABUSH tries very hard to be both chic and hipster ...they try so hard they end up ruining both ventures and just look desperate.
The food is a waste of time. Although the portions are quite big, the food has no taste ...having lots of really bad food does not make up for the fact that you're eating bad food. I love risotto, so I thought I'd give it a shot; what I got can only be described as a pile of mushy rice with black pepper flakes. The taste was worse than the description. So being a glutton for punishment, I came back at a later date and tried their pasta w/ sausages ....again, no flavor. I asked them to make it spicy (I like me my spices!), they gave me Frank's Red and some black pepper. I know for a fact that Italian food is fricken delicious! This place was an insult to the food it claims to highlight.
The saving grace: mood lighting + drinks. This is a place to come and get (moderately priced) drinks after work and just hang out. They have cheap beers days (I think it's Thursday, not sure), so it ends up working out for a group of buddies. They've also got a pretty decent selection of mixed drinks, so everyone was quite happy with that.
TL;DR: Food sucks, drinks are nice. I think they want to get you so drunk, so you don't taste the food. That must be it.
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