Cafe Calamari

I hadn't been to Cafe Calamari since I was in college, we were recently visiting on a family vacation and I thought it would be nice to grab some pasta here.  The food was OK, the service was fine, the problem I have is that they do not have a kid menu.  I have been to plenty of restaurants that don't have one but usually I will have my 2 kids split a plate since plates for adults usually work for the both of them.  When our bill came and we had a $7.95 split plate fee added to the cost I questioned it.  I was told that becuase they dont' have a kids menu and they split a plate I had to pay the fee. This is not a fee they waive for 5 year old kids, even when I told her we didn't need a second salad.  So I'm pretty sure there are lots of other places you can go for pasta with a family and I would say this is the last place.  We could have gone to so many other nicer places for what we paid to eat there.

We went for dinner on New Year's Eve and everything about the experience was wonderful. Our steaks were fantastic and reasonably priced all this considered, and the service was great. Unfortunately I don't remember our server's name but he was fantastic and we saw our him slinging drinks next door at Harpoon Willie's once his shift at Cafe Calamari was over. Would definitely return for a nice occasion.

Big city prices for poor quality food. Menu