La Gondola Italian Restaurant

We chose this place last night based on the 4 star average.  Unfortunately we were disappointed.  Coming in before the dinner crowd at 6:30 , we wanted to give the place a solid once over.  It ended up giving my wallet the once over.  A bloated menu boasting every dish known to Italy might explain the high prices with the average dish costing 22.00.  Ours should have at least included soup and/or salad except our waitress forgot to bring it to us.  She also forgot our water.  and never did notice to apologize.  The dish was cooked to perfection(roasted half chicken) but was unimpressive as compared to Francesca's on Taylor (15.99 by comparison).  With the price, the unfortunate service, and the fact that almost anywhere else, 80 dollars at least gets you a tablecloth and some fresh water re-fills, this place is a pass.  Sorry guys.

This place is part of my 4 pizza places of the apocalypse. First of all dont get the chicken wings. They should not be selling these. But your not coming here for wings. You coming here for delicious fucking hot thin crust.  A lot of pizza places have bland as hell pizzas that are undercooked. This place aint that.  There sausage is excellent. God damn im getting hungry just writing this.

A decent delivery Italian restaurant.  I usually avoid eating Italian out, at least when it's not some super highly rated place, since I feel that most things I'd order I could make myself with relative ease.  But sometimes (ok, a lot of the time), I just feel lazy and some of those times I just want some pasta.  On those occasions, I often order La Gondola (full disclosure, I've never been inside this restaurant).

My typical order is the Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad, Spaghetti Carbonara, and a side of Gnocchi. The last item is huge, as I usually want some gnocchi, but rarely as my whole meal.  Take note fictitious society of Italian restaurant owners.  Seems like I said some pretty good things for it only to get a 3 star right?  Right, again, it's simple Italian food and I don't think an above average rating should be earned just for profiting from my laziness.