Not Recomended
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 4/17/09
Planning a meal out in this city is hard to do because of the variety and choices of locations where the restaurant is in proximity to home. We chose this place because its in a trendy part of town and had gone once before with good results.
Unfortunately this visit was not as good as the first that resulted in an Not Recommended.
The place was about a 3rd full our server was tending three tables. She arrived later than sooner to take our initial drink order, drinks arrived, I ordered mineral water and my date ordered a beer, neither was poured for us..So here we go, initial impressions are lasting. Then it came time to take our order, she leaned her bum up against a vacant table and wrote down the order, no offer of a special was offered.
I ordered a Feta salad with baby shrimp and my main was chicken breast with spinach and feta cheese filling. The dinner came with a side of spaghetti and rosa sauce. Warm bread rolls were served, they were good. The salad arrived, it was wet with water, with hints of brown edges and under the low lighting may have been even browner, the feta cheese was crumbled into tiny bits and because it was so small you really couldn't taste the feta all that well, the two olives that were in the salad were old and not so full of brine that one comes to expect from a decent olive.
The main arrived the plate was not heated nor was the food "hot",, remember the restaurant was not busy. The chicken was a small portion about the size of a small clinched fist and was previously frozen, the filling was over moist with the spinach and again the feta cheese was not discernible. The pasta was cooked well however the sauce was bland and not creamy nor tomato(y. My dates, food, a chicken Parmesan was a good sized serving but it was cooked from what tasted frozen and again not that warm.
Another beer was served from the left and placed to my dates right, making her have to reach right across the meal, that was kind of rude.
All in all a not very memorable place to dine in this city where there are so many choices and with so much competition I wonder how they can remain in business.
In all fairness, it was a Thursday but since all the meals were not prepared fresh its unlikely that the actual food served on a Saturday evening would be any better, but perhaps the service would be.
CIAO