Wanted very much to like this place, I pass it every day and would love to have a close restaurant to make a regular stop.
First let's talk about the restaurant itself and the service. Inside and out it's very clean and neat and still smells like a new building, which is great for a restaurant. The tables are this wonderful wood and the light fixtures look like someone actually put some time and effort into choosing them. Our server was very friendly and came back often to check on drinks and such.
Now the food, this is where it takes a nose dive.
As an appetizer, I got the sausage stuffed peppers, which were fantastic and the other in my party got the pizza fries, I don't even like eggplant and I thought they were good.
My dinner was the shrimp and linguini with garlic cream sauce. The only thing good about this dish was the texture of the pasta. The sauce was a dingy color that looked and smelled like it was burned. It had that smokey taste like some of it burned and the unburnt was served. It was also visibly greasy. The shrimp was the biggest disappointment, it was tightly curled and small which is usually an indication it's over cooked. It was also tough and chewy, and I mean cheap over cooked steak level of tough and chewy, and very dry. I was very disappointed.
The other person in my party got the lasagna, it was 2 giant noodles with about 1/8" of cheese sandwiched in between and some sauce over top. When I asked how was it, the response was "eh" with a shoulder shrug.
We ordered a large pepperoni pizza to go for someone who couldn't get out of work in time to meet us for dinner. It came and I decided since I couldn't eat my food, I'd try that. It had a great appearance and I was excited, especially after reading the good reviews on here! No go. The pizza was dry, without very much sauce, which could just be their style, not a big deal. It was VERY greasy, not the kind of "oh ya!" greasy pizza, but the bad kind of greasy, like all the fat had been pulled out of the cheese and pepperoni from over cooking. Barely any cheese and a burnt garlic powder taste, anyone who cooks knows that odd burned garlic taste. The crust edge was also very crunchy, sort of like those hard bread sticks.
We had ordered the fried dough as a dessert, that I have to say was fantastic, sort of chewy on the outside and perfect on the inside. It was covered in honey and powered sugar. I couldn't get enough!
Now the worst part of all, we took the pizza home and chatted with the 3rd person while he ate. He's normally a HUGE pizza fan and said he was starving. He ate one and a half pieces, put it in the fridge and made a PB&J. That was around 6pm. By 9ish, everyone in the house was sick with upset stomachs. Obviously not food poisoning or anything nefarious like that, but most certainly unpleasant.
Normally, if I get bad service, or one bad item I'll give a restaurant another chance, not this time. I nor anyone else in my house have any desire to spend hours in the bathroom again or $80 (no alcohol) on food that's not edible. read more