While this place was good over ten years ago, now the place is one of the worst places to eat. Going under the assumption that food was good here, my grandmother twice held family dinner here even after people stopped liking it. Once was in an August around 2005 and the ziti was over cooked. That's forgivable right? The second time every aspect of the meal was awful. This was in 2007. We ate here after our grandfather died. I don't know if it was short notice, because it was booked 4 or 3 days ahead of time. We still had to wait to be seated for about an hour. The salads were awful, they tasted wilted and bitter. I'm not sure if they soaked the salads in a sink or if the lettuce was just very old. Nobody ate the salad. The chicken parm was over baked. It was hard to cut and very stringy. The eggplant tasted like rubber. The ziti this time was decent, and it went pretty quickly. The desserts had no flavor. They were attractive, but completely bland. The waitstaff was very attentive and polite, they tried to be helpful, but good service doesn't help when food is that bad. Plates returned to the kitchen came back tasting the same way. Just more of the overcooked slop came back our way. Seeing that it was a dinner to celebrate the life of a beloved family member, this place should have been ashamed of themselves and the entire meal should have been given a steep discount. It wasn't because they found the inferior grade meals to be okay...though I didn't see THEM eat it.
I will never in my life ever return to this ""restaurant"". They are less than two miles from where I live and I will never support their low quality high priced inferior eatery. It's a pity that they are that bad. Better food can easily be made at home. In fact the food of their expectation of ""high"" quality can easily be found in my kitchens garbage can. The vegetables can be found in my compost heap, wait for them to decompose for at least a couple of days, then it will be of the same calibre as the ""fresh"" vegetables served at Lombardi's. On a kinder note, I might recommend someone to eat here if they are on a diet. It's hard to overindulge on spoiled food.
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