This is a small cafe with crowded seating and small tables, more appropriate for coffee and a pastry, than for dinning, which happens to be attached to a slot machine establishment. The reviews online seem great, our experience tonight, unfortunately was not.
We arrived just before 6 pm on Thursday evening with a party of 4 and told to sit anywhere. There was one employee in front of house, who was greater, bartender, server. As it got up to 9 tables, she was very busy indeed, yet stayed pleasant. She was a definite plus!
The food was a definite disappointment! They could not make any dish with white sauce. They had not made any today. There is no option for marsala or picatta, etc. Every dish from pizza, calzone, or pasta has only one sauce...tomato sauce. We had 2 orders of veal parmesan, beef ravioli with meatballs and beef tortillis with meatballs. They all come with bread and side salad.
The bread is a hearty brown bread, but apparently sliced ahead of time, very dry. The butter just out of fridge was hard and unspreadable. The salad has only one dressing option...oil and balsamic vinegar. We asked for other options, told that they have nothing else. The table next to us ordered it with no dressing. The lettuce was wilted, it was filled with tiny shards of cucumber.
Apparently, the veal parmagian was cooked well. The pasta was a bit undercooked. The tortilini and ravioli were extremely undercooked, not even aldante...leathery with a cold filling! So chewy that we were choking. The meatballs had no taste except the tomato sauce. The tortilini was cheese instead of beef that was ordered. The sauce/gravy was absolutely horrible!!! It was apparently just crushed tomatoes. No salt, pepper, garlic, basil, oregano...Nothing!!!
We never had the waitress check back to see how the food was or to refill the very small glasses. We ran out of drink. As she was doing her best by doing everything for 30 plus people.. She came and asked if we wanted desert. We wanted capacheno and home made cannoli which are supposed to be awesome here. We were told that all they have are the pre-made shells, but no filling!!!
Visiting the women's restroom was a bit starting. As I turned to close the door, I saw what I thought was a woman in the mirror, and thought I had walked in on someone. It was instead, an old school manaquin in a blue dress. The scarry thing is that it is soo unstable. One two year old who grabs a hand or leg in curiosity...it will fall on top of them!
We asked for our check and got the plentiful left overs to go. Discussing our experience in the car, we all agreed that it was horrible and threw it away! What a waste of money and time!
John H.
Melissa V.
Susan W.
Devinee D.
Fredrick W.
