Di Cicco's Italian Restaurant

Big waste of money...but you get to watch a Rod Stewart concert video.

I ate here a few years ago and didn't really care for it, but I decided to try it again with the family. Big mistake. When we got there, the host stand was empty, and we waited for quite sometime in the half empty restaurant. When he finally came, he didn't look a us, greet us, or anything. Finally when I asked, we were seated.

When we walked into the main dining room, an entire wall was dedicated to a projection of Rod Stewart in concert. I kid you not, and I seriously am not creative enough to make something like that up. So, during dinner, we were serenaded by a sweaty Rod singing, "Reason to believe" and "Rhythm of my Heart". Needless to say, this did not add to the dining experience.

The kid's meals were pretty expensive ($9 each for a small portion of pasta!!!!) so we ordered two pasta dishes and one pizza for the six of us to share.

They charged $3.50 for a house salad, which was a handful of bagged lettuce, two tomato slices, one pepperoncini, and dressing. That's it. $3.50 for something that probably cost them about .20 cents. If it had been just my husband and I, we would have walked out. But after unloading all of the kids and carseats, we were committed. Plus we were all ravenously hungry, so I thought that anything would taste good, even if the prices were inflated. I was wrong.

When the food came, it was terrible. It came in three minutes, which means everything is pre-made (that explains the awful taste). The small food portions were a disappointment until we tasted the food. After we tasted it, we were glad to only have to suffer through the small portion. The waitress recommended a mushroom ravioli, which was gritty and gross. And the bill was $68! I don't mind paying $70 for good food, but this was horrible.

My kids also wanted me to mention that the inside is creepy. This is the first time ever that I would have preferred to stay home and eat nothing than to go to a restaurant.

Yelp won't allow me to give a zero star rating, so I've decided that the one star is for Rod Stewart. It's not his fault he's a part of this travesty.

So if you want overpriced bad food, in an ostentatiously weird building, and a Rod Stewart extravaganza, this is the place for you. If you're like 99.9% of people who do not like those things, stay away.

We were horrified by the prices on the menu, but it didn't really matter since we had to get up and walk out because nobody ever came to wait on us. This was at 5:30pm on a Wed night with only a couple other people in the restaurant.

This a  cavernous resturant with poor food.  The prices are high $16-25 for a main pasta meal. They do not have pesto. We got the meat raviolli's which came out in less then 5 minutes. Make me wonder if they just warmed them in a microwave.  The sauce was bland.  And they charge $5 to split a plate. 33% of a meal to split and dinner.  
No impressed and would never return nor recommend Di Cicco's on Tower road.