La Scala Italian Restaurant & Bar

This restaurant offers upscale dining where it is desperately needed.. The Blackened Mahi was better than I had a week earlier in Destin, FL, or anywhere else for that matter.  The Tiramisu was decadently rich and delicious.  While not listed on the menu currently, they will also make fettuccine alfredo that is some of the best I've ever had.  Don't go looking for the 99 cent menu.  This is quality food and worth the money.

Pretty fancy decor.  Good service, but the food just isn't quite up to par.  I had the spinach cream, pancetta pasta, which was okay, but just didn't have enough seasoning for my taste.  The wine list also was not terribly impressive, as it included Sutter Home.  It was definitely fancy for Rome though, and the staff was very helpful and attentive.  The bread was excellent as well.  I would just recommend more flavorful dishes.  It is trying so hard to be a fine dining refuge in Rome, but the quality just isn't there yet.

Went here for a work dinner with a large group of people so they did the dinner buffet style. It was a beautiful location but the food was really not good. They offered salads, and then a chicken marsala breast with a mushroom marsala sauce and a pasta dish with a tomato sauce. What was odd was they didn't offer a plain pasta to pair with the marsala breast but instead had roasted potatoes (the only really flavorful dish) and steamed veggies. I was really very disappointed with the food, and we were not provided with water pitchers at our tables but were dependent upon the waitstaff to refill our glasses which only happened once in the several hours we were there.

I even tried to flag down the waiters several times to try and get some more water as people were presenting and they never even came all the way back in to the room. That irked me.

The dessert options were an over-sweet cannoli and these three tiny tarts made of a fruit paste which were not very appetizing.

Based on this experience I'm not sure I'd ever go there on my own.