1/5 Nic E. 8 months ago on Google
The
food
here
is
awful.
We
got
chicken
parmesan
and
lasagne
(which
the
server
said
has
the
same
meat
sauce
as
the
pappardelle
bolognese,
in
case
anyone's
wondering
whether
other
menu
items
are
better)
and
both
my
partner
and
I
found
it
hard
to
eat
our
entrees.
It
tasted
like
the
sauces
came
out
of
a
can
(in
the
Chef
Boyardee
way,
not
in
the
crushed
canned
tomatoes
as
a
base
to
produce
a
homemade
sauce
way)
and
like
the
chicken
base
for
the
parmesan
came
from
a
frozen
packet.
The
meat
in
the
lasagne
also
tasted
like
something
from
a
Chef
Boyardee
ravioli.
I
took
home
half
of
it
and
I
honestly
don't
know
if
I
can
bring
myself
to
eat
it.
It
was
a
$29
meal.
Bread
service
is
a
surprising,
nice
touch
these
days,
but
the
bread
here
is
clearly
mass-produced
store-bought
white
baguettes,
which
takes
away
from
the
appeal.
The
parmesan
they
brought
out
was
crumbled
(think
Kraft
shaker
bottles)
parmesan
in
an
open
bowl.
I
am
not
a
big
fan
of
the
open
bowl
from
a
sanitary
perspective,
but
more
importantly,
I
expect
that
kind
of
cheese
at
a
cheap
pizza
place,
not
at
a
dedicated
Italian
restaurant
with
$25+
entrees.
Even
Cheesecake
Factory,
a
chain
restaurant
not
specializing
in
Italian
food,
will
come
over
and
grate
real
parmesan
over
your
pasta
dish.
Cheesecake
Factory
also
manages
to
have
better,
fresher
bread.
I
am
saying
this
as
someone
who
hasn't
been
to
The
Cheesecake
Factory
in
years,
because
why
go
to
a
chain
when
there
are
so
many
great,
independent,
specialized
restaurants
around?
I
guess
this
is
why.
Not
all
independent
restaurants
are
good.
I
could
see
into
the
kitchen
from
my
seat
and
it
looked
like
there
might
have
only
been
a
single
cook
back
there,
on
a
busy
Saturday
night,
at
peak
dinner
hours.
Maybe
if
this
place
relies
on
frozen/canned
everything,
they
feel
1
chef
is
enough,
but
it's
clearly
not.
For
this
awful
food,
we
waited
a
little
over
45
mins
from
the
time
of
ordering.
We
arrived
hungry,
so
you'd
think
45
mins
of
waiting
would
have
made
ANY
food
taste
good,
but
no.
You
may
be
thinking
45
mins
is
an
exaggeration,
but
no,
we
actually
timed
it,
because
we
made
note
of
the
time
after
the
server
took
15
mins
to
take
our
food
order
after
we
sat
down.
It
turns
out
that
on
a
busy
Saturday
night,
this
place
only
seems
to
have
scheduled
a
single
server
for
the
whole
restaurant.
The
hostess
(or
idk
maybe
that
was
the
manager
or
owner)
was
doing
multiple
roles,
helping
to
run
food
and
check
on
people,
and
the
busser
was
also
fulfilling
a
few
roles,
but
come
on.
I've
worked
in
food
service,
if
you
can't
support
the
number
of
patrons
in
a
place
with
the
level
of
staff
you
have,
you
don't
just
keep
seating
more
and
more
people
-
you
leave
some
sections
closed,
so
you
can
give
th
people
already
seated
a
good
experience.
How
this
place
had
a
completely
full
restaurant
with
1
server,
1
host,
1
busser,
and
1
chef
blows
my
mind.
Nobody
checked
in
on
us
or
said
anything
to
assure
us
during
the
45
mins
we
waited
for
our
food,
btw.
My
partner
and
I
were
in
between
wondering
whether
they
forgot
our
order
and
joking
about
walking
out.
Never
again.
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