So I was hungry at noontime when I stumbled upon Romi's lunch special sign: $8.99 for starters and choice of pasta or pizza. Not a bad deal, I thought. I love small and intimate Italian restaurants with old-fashioned home-style cooking, and was hoping this would be another new discovery for me. The minute I saw my Caesar salad though, I knew I was in the wrong place. Fake bacon bits? Come on... that's not the way to do it. And my dressing was something out of a bottle as well rather than traditionally made. That would be fine at a fast-food joint, but unacceptable at an "authentic" Italian restaurant. There was free focaccia bread all right, but it was obviously stale-- maybe at least a day old. Anyway I let that go and was thinking maybe the pizza would be good because people seem to be raving about it. I was expecting it would be Italian style with a nice thin crust, rich tomatoes, and olive oil.. but what I got was just some glorified version of pizza pizza. There wasn't even enough veggies in it, just a few slivers of mushroom and slices of bell pepper. Didn't bother to eat the crusts-- they were too hard and flavourless. Would have just given this place 1 star, but the service is at least pleasant so will be giving them 2. But overall, I might as well have gone to Pizza Iolo.