Zolos, Franklin

Sadly, this restaurant has the location and a great atmosphere but is so lacking in everything else. To start, they used prepackaged pasta (i.e. with a kitchen that sits out in clear view of patrons, I watched them dump Costco's Spinach and Cheese ravioli (they didn't even try to hide the packaging) in the pot of boiling water and would guess the tortellini was too,etc.) the sauce tastes like it's from a can and the only ingredient they've added is sugar (to try and disguise otherwise), and even the meatballs aren't homemade, they're obviously frozen. They don't even go the distance to bring you fresh hot (or cold) bread while you wait, instead you get crispy bread crackers (still in the package). Maybe if they had a kid's menu (with kid's prices) they could compete for some of our business but they certainly won't get mine again. For the price, this restaurant is so not worth it, even in good economic times I wouldn't waste my hard earned money here. For our family of 5 we spent $85 and didn't even have dessert of alcohol.

A great location and ok atmosphere it goes downhill from there. We had the artichoke appetizer and it was just average. The Ceasar salad tasted like it was right out of a bag. Our shrimp and scallops main course was pitiful. Very few shrimp and a very small amount of bay scallops with lots of pasta to fill up the dish. The sauce was so thin and had virtually no taste. For $21.95 it was a joke. The by the glass wines were very mediocre and at $10 I thought a little high. Very expensive dinner that I could have had for half the price and much better quality at Carraba's. The only bright spot was our server, Diana. I want ever go back!!!