It's the new year and I was far from cheffing it up tonight so we settled on some delivery. Italian was on the brain so we called a few regular spots but due to the holiday, they were all no go. We looked to Yelp for a new restaurant with decent reviews and I came across Giovanni's. With fingers crossed, we called, hoping someone would answer and when we heard a voice we silently rejoiced.
Hubbs gave our order to the woman who answered and she informed him that our delivery would take some time so we were prepared. About an hour after he called up our order I started getting antsy. The hangry level was at, "Concerned Tummy Growl" and we decided to give a few more minutes before calling them. Luckily, the delivery guy called a little later and said he would be arriving soon. Points given for actually entering our building to deliver our food instead of having us walk outside for our food. I absolutely hate it when restaurants make us leave our home to get our delivery; the whole purpose of delivery is to have a full meal brought to you while you're still in your PJs. Food was delivered to our door and the delivery person was very nice and personable; he shook my husband's hand! We've never had such a pleasant delivery, like, ever.
The Grub:
Chicken Parmigiana - the portion size is huge! There were four breaded chicken cutlets, doused with marinara, cloaked in mozz, placed just so, atop a California King of linguine pasta side. It's was cheesy and tasted ok.
Spaghetti & Meatballs - the portion of this main was disappointing. They only gave two standard sized meatballs on top of the same large portion of linguine pasta. I would not order that again because it's just not worth it for what they serve. Disappointing.
Fettuccine Alfredo - this was a generous pasta dish portion also. I've definitely had better versions of this elsewhere as it was lacking in the sauce. It was a bit dry and I was expecting creamy, cheesy pasta. Disappointing.
Broccoli Side - this was supposed to be a veggie side, sautéed in garlic and evoo but the flavour of it was way off. The broccoli was overcooked and limp and it had the weird smoky taste. You could tell that they burned the garlic and instead of dumping it and starting over they just added the broccoli is which was likely pre-cooked and sautéed just like that. That burned flavour permeated every hand it tasted horrible. Disappointing.
My rating is based mostly on the fact they were open today, we were informed when calling that delivery might take a while, our food was hot and the delivery guy was very nice. Bottom line is that they're a food service business and the food was severely lacking. Aside from the Chicken Parm dish tasting decent and the portion being so huge all of the other food was lacking in one way or another. We were missing a few meatballs, the alfredo was dry and the broccoli tasted burnt and was mushy. I doubt we'll order from them again which is unfortunate because I like having delivery options. read more