Cafe Martorano is part night club, part casual restaurant, and part upscale restaurant. I guess it comes as little surprise that this strange amalgamation fails to be good at much of anything. The first turn off was seeing a bottle of wine I usually buy at the local grocery store for $10 priced at almost $60. Look, I don?t mind paying more for wine at a restaurant ? I get it ? but getting ripped off is another matter. And that was one of the cheapest bottles on the wine list. To start out, I split a cheesesteak appetizer. Having lived in Philly, the Martorano?s cheesesteak is good but not great. And at $18, it doesn?t come cheap. The veal dish I had was more akin to something you?d find in a small mom & pop Italian joint than an expensive Las Vegas restaurant. It was unimaginative, greasy, and gargantuan in size. The service was friendly and attentive but that may have been due to the fact that the place was mostly empty during a holiday weekend. All in all, the food, while not horrible, simply fails to cut it in a town jammed with world class restaurants. For what you pay for a complete meal here, you?re simply better off elsewhere.
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