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| - North Beach Italian Bistro was the result of wanting to try an eatery close to my home and random Yelping. This, obviously, is not the tactic I should use for future dinner choices. Although this place is cute inside and the service is quite good, I wouldn`t come back here unless someone kidnapped me and we showed up here and I was really hungry.
My party didn`t show up with reservations because we are a bunch of savages, but we thought "How busy could it be?". Well, they only had a couple of tables left, so I suppose quite busy, and we had to sit at a table(which I`m just not down with usually because I like booths), but I got over it pretty quick. The water person came over and filled up our cups until they runneth over(not really) and I was happy with the quick service thus far. Then our waitress came over and took our drink order(wine, please! All of it.) and then went away. We were left alone quite some time to our own devices and without bread, but that wasn't a big deal. We actually chatted like humans and it was awesome and then the bread came and that was over. I went into a gluten coma. Bread was delicious and butter is always a welcome food group. There was hope.
Then we put in our orders. I got the rigatoni puttanesca and the other two people in my group got the pasta carbonara and lasagna. Easy. Bring on the food. We ate bread which seemed like forever and it seemed like they were taking quite a while with the food. Not to worry, though, more actual human interaction was taking place. Good times in a world where people never talk to each other.
Food arrived and was pretty underwhelming. My rigatoni puttanesca just didn`t feel exciting and I felt like there wasn't enough sauce. It was just not very good. The pasta carbonara seemed really heavy and greasy and was not finished. The lasagne did seem to go over well, but as a whole the group was not impressed.
Here is the nail in the coffin, though: We ordered two glasses of wine and they charged us for one glass and one bottle. We had to flag down our waitress and get this corrected, otherwise they would have let us pay for a bottle. Not a huge deal, as mistakes do happen, but it just wasn't a good experience. #ByeFelicia
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