I don't know why this place has so many negative reviews. Â It's a nice simple place with a family atmosphere. Â
Here's the review of some of our choices:
Amazingly crispy and delicious Italian bread.
Linguini with white clam sauce - just the right amount of oil and garlic - absolutely delicious.
Chicken parm - crispy, very tasty.
Pasta with putanesca sauce - delicious.
Shrimp Francese - awesome
I think if you are looking for a fancy upscale place, this is not for you but for good old fashioned Italian food, reasonable prices - it was great.
Don't understand the appeal of this place. Â Maybe it's the fact that it's an Italian restaurant in it's own building and not in a strip mall. Â This place has disappointed a number of times, not just this last time. Â I don't know why we keep coming back, but every time we do we say, "Never again." Â We were seated right away and I immediately noticed a brown stain on our tablecloth like someone smeared a dessert. Â There were these little gnats all over the place and this is in November. Â After a couple of frosts, there aren't any bugs outdoors. Â Where are these gnats coming from? Â You know it's not from outside. Â Just gross. Â They were landing on our bread basket. Â The bread is this big, round pizza dough blob that they bake. Â The thing is like lead. Â There's so much great Italian bread around. Â Why would you serve this dense lump? Â When you look up at the ceiling there's this ridiculous thing hanging from the ceiling and it has boxed Barilla pastas on there. Â Why would you advertise the fact that you're using dry, boxed, mass-produced pasta? Â I don't know what this ceiling display is? Â It makes me laugh. Â It's like a surf board that they hung from the ceiling and they piled it up with store-bought Italian items from the grocery store. Â Back to the food: Â The salad was unwashed. Â It was literally gritty and sandy. Â I couldn't believe it. Â You cannot serve unwashed salad. The dipping oil was just olive oil with dried oregano in it. Â It wasn't very good. The service was OK, but the waitress was basically just taking your order and plopping your food down in front of you. Â They had these teenage busboys trolling the dining room constantly staring at you and your plate waiting to pounce on it. Â This place would benefit from a real manager who understands how to run a dining room. Â The utensils were dirty and very old. Â It seemed like they've never changed their utensils. Â They are all worn, scratched, and bent. Â The food was OK in general. Â Mine was meat lasagna and hers was eggplant rollatini. Â The red sauce was good. The broccoli rabe was horrible. Â It was old and brown like it was sitting around and they mixed fresh broccoli rabe in with it. Â When I went to the register to pay, the guy was on the phone the whole time and never said a word to me. Â He just kept taking orders on the phone. Â This place is inconsistent and you get that from reading all of the reviews. Â I don't think we'll be back. Â There are too many other good Italian restaurants around. Â Oh yeah, I forgot: Please stop the endless loop of Andrea Bocelli music. Â It's like this guy was the only Italian singer the world has ever known.
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