Cirelli's Osteria

Went out for a holiday dinner with my family; when we sent back a menu item the chef (Owner Mr. Cerelli himself) came out and proceeded to scream at us in front of other patrons and verbally berate us. Apparently loud mouthed hyperbole and profanity is on the menu.

Don't eat here unless you like raw food and verbal abuse.

Completely awful, unprofessional and utter culinary failure.

-you won't want to miss out on great food, great specials, great atmosphere, and great company!

We tried it one night after they had transformed from Jakes and firstly had issues with anyone even acknowledging that we needed to be seated (and it was fairly dead). After we settled in and decided what we were going to eat, we were telling the waitress and everything we wanted to order was not available anymore (WTF?) It was explained that the kitchen was in the process of "turning over" to Italian food. At that point we were so aggravated that we got up and left to go eat somewhere where we could get service, and the menu was accurate. chef Ramsay would have had a field day with them!

 Flash forward 2 months and I had been hearing a few good things about the place, so we decided to try it again. Now that it is full Italian, which is a favorite of mine, we wanted a great culinary adventure. We started with an app of the fried artichokes and it started going down hill when they were delivered. They were very busy and everyone was running around like they had never waited a table in their lives. Our app tasted funny and we tried in vain to find our waitress to tell her so. Instead, someone from the kitchen swooped out with our entrees, plopped them down in front of us and swooped off again. No one ever asked why our app wasn't touched. I had the eggplant parm, eeh, it was prepped in a casserole earlier in the day. In other words, the chef is too lazy to cook fresh, he just has kitchen help shoveling things in and out of the oven. In the end our waitress finally came back and I brought to her attention the issue with the artichokes that were still sitting on the front edge of the table and that made her all flustered. Seems it was too much for her to handle while she was sweating, huffing and puffing and passed the issue to the kitchen to handle. So bad, so bad, so bad... After a bit another woman approached our table with the artichokes removed from the bill, but was very defensive about it. REALLY???? We reiterated that they had a funny taste and her response was that we obviously didn't know what white truffle oil tastes like. How nice, insult my culinary experience too. Never again, not only that, but I tell people NOT to waste their time there with the lousy service, bad attitudes and only average food.

Also, the Italian owner should look up the definition of the word "Osteria", because his establishment is NOT an osteria!