The Old Spaghetti Factory
- Price Range: $
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Private Lot
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: Yes
- Good for Kids: Yes
- Takes Reservations: Yes
- Delivers: No
- Take-out: Yes
- Waiter Service: Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: No
- Good for: Dinner, Lunch
- Alcohol: Full Bar
68 Reviews for The Old Spaghetti Factory
I can see how some of the reviews are pretty harsh on the OSF, but it is a great place for large parties or families. The food is inexpensive and fulfilling. Don't go expecting to have a quiet dinner and fancy food. This is not the place to take a date!
Great place for an inexpensive take-out for lunch. They have a punch card for lunches too.
Oh my %&$!?!* God! The bile they serve at the Spaghetti Factory, I can't even recognize as food!!!! The so called pasta is cooked to a white mush and the sauces are insipid at best, vile and pernicious at worst. I have been to this chamber of horrors on a few occasions for birthdays and such and cringe at the thought of ever having to go there again! Holy Smokes this place is BAD!!! I had to give it one star because I couldn't get out of the review page without giving it a rating. Otherwise I wouldn't have given it any at all!
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My boyfriend and I went to the factory this year for Valentines Day. The meal and service from our waiter was average, for the venue. BUT, around closing time the manager began yelling through out the restaurant at the employees to get things cleaned up for closing.
We were seated near the kitchen and she was right behind me yelling "come on people, I don't want to be here all night!" It was still really early, somewhere around 10 or 10:30. She completely ruined my meal and really pissed me off. That wasn't the only thing she said, she shouted quite a few times actually.
If she ever reads this, you know who you are (african american, green shirt, no standard uniform) --- I want her to know, she should be fired for creating an inhospitable atmosphere for an entire restaurant, on Valentines Day no less. She should not be allowed around customers--EVER-- they should put her back in the kitchen with the dishwashers where no one can hear her!
I will never return to that location.
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Diana - age 7
It's my BIRTHDAY!!!! Presents and Clam Sauce!!!!!!
I WANT TO SIT IN THE TROLLEY!!!!!
What??!!!???? Why not????
We all fit!! YES WE DO TOO!!!!!!!
What???!!!!???
I WANT TO SIT IN THE COCKADOODY TROLLEY!
no...i don't want to sit in the car......
I WANT TO SIT AT THE BED TABLE!!!!!
I want to sit at the PURPLE ONE!!!
What???!!!??? Tell them to leave!!! I WANT TO SIT THERE!!!!!
no....i do not want you to give me something to cry about....
Sometimes I just get my parents random presents.
And just call to say I love them.
And thank them for letting me see 8.
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I'm a Spag-hag! Though I'd have to agree with most of the Yelpers that the food is sub par, I mostly like coming here for the atmosphere and decor! It's like a little city inside of the Restaurant!! Plus, the lighting makes it semi-romantic. Coming here with friends is a great past time and it is also very family friendly.
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This joint is a lead turd, I've eaten better out of a plastic pouch (MRE), mushy pasta is unsat when it's on my dime. Being that I still have most of my teeth I typically like a little texture to my grub and am partial to other seasonings besides salt.
I'm not going to lie, The Old Spaghetti Factory sucks, but in that super fun way that makes you keep going back. I remember going there with my parents when I was a little kid in Hawaii whenever relatives or family friends were visiting, I would insist on eating in the trolley car, get the italian soda in the glass you get to keep, and be stuffed with lemon heads by my "aunt" Julie. FUN! Though the food has gotten worse, the times are only getting better with age. The interior design and strange waitstaff will give you and your snarky friends tons of easy targets, and when you're stuffing yourself with horrible but still somehow delicious pasta, effort is not something you want to be putting out. It is always loud and busy so it's perfect for ignoring those tagging along friend of a friends or random cousins you barely know as you shout over to the people you do like. Awesome!
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The Spaghetti Factory tastes the same now as it did when I was a kid. And that's why I like it. It's comfort food. Whenever I'm feeling a little down I go and order up some spaghetti with mushroom sauce and mizithra cheese. And spumoni ice cream. And then I feel better.
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I can't stand this place! The only thing it has going for it is the outside of the building. I had been waiting for years to go there, but every time I crossed the ferry to come to Seattle, no one ever wanted to come with me.(For good reason I see). Finally when I moved to Seattle I went here for my birthday. What. a. mistake... I wish the train would accidentally derail and take this place of the map(it's basically a train wreck anyway). So, the food was horrible. Taste like it had been sitting under the lights all day, and some of my pasta was cold. The meat had the nerve to be burnt. The service was atrocious, I don't think the waiter looked at me the entire time, and that's only counting the 2 times I was able to find him. I'm sure he was looking for his tip though! I'm depressed by this place. I had great expectations.. I remember eating there as a child in Hawaii, I oddly remember it being fantastic!
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The restaurant looked pretty nice, old fashion and everything. We got our table in a timely manner and the cheesy bread was pretty good as an appetizer. The waitress messed up on my salad order, and it was funny how the salad was better than the thousand salad I first ordered. I ordered the daily special which was some chicken with pasta I believe. The chicken was a bit dry, but the pasta made it up. I also got that one drink that comes with the souvenir glass cup, so that was cool. The place is like any typical chain, I didn't think they would have so many restaurants in the U.S., especially a few hours from San Francisco. Overall, not too shabby.
Having left Seattle in 2000 and since moving on to LA and NY, I've eaten at many finer establishments. And certainly Italian restaurants with better food. But I love the Spaghetti Factory. I try to go there when I'm home visiting the fam. It's great for large parties, kids, etc. The wait can be long and they don't seat you until your entire party is there.
It is simple Italian food at its best. The garlic bread, the mizithra in brown butter, the clam sauce. mmmm. I guess it's just kind of homey and comforting...if you come from a large family.
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My boyfriend and I came here on Easter, since it we did not know which restaurants were open or closed on Easter, and this restaurant is around the block from our hotel, The Edgewater. I was excited to come to the restaurant because I was dying for some fettuccine alfredo with white clam sauce. I read their menu about white clam sauce that was for clam lovers. So without a doubt I ordered it with fettuccine instead of spaghetti. It was horrible! There were barely any clams in my sauce. The little amount of clams that I had were canned. I was extremely disappointed. My boyfriend's spaghetti with 2 sauces tasted so much better. My guess is ... spaghetti is the only thing you should order here, and their clam sauce is not for clam lovers!
I was disappointed with the food, but there was still a large portion left uneaten, so I brought the rest back to the hotel. But it was so bad to the point that I just threw the food away. The one scoop of spumoni at the end was good, but does not make up for how bad the rest of the meal went.
I like the Old Spaghetti Factory and I'm not ashamed to admit it. You can't eat at Volterra every night. Sometimes I just want some simple, inexpensive, fast "Italian" food. Sometimes I'm hungover and need mizithra. Sometimes I want a huge carafe of wine for $12. Sometimes I want to eat inside a trolley car.
To my eye, a person can't be thrilled to be working at the 'Factory, but what do I know, because every server I've had on my many visits has met my low expectations and was really nice.
My Seattle bachelorette party included a stop at The 'Factory, table for 27 please, so it has a warm place in my heart just for that. The 'Factory also plays a role in another large life rite of passage of mine, which isn't fit for publication here, but which I will detail to you at the next Yelp Elite event if you get me liquored up enough (not a tough task by any means).
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Eating here, is like eating in a retirement community.
You'll hear distant sobbing, as you look into the vacant eyes of the exhausted staff! Then you'll be served uninspired and tasteless "meal" at the speed of Methuselah right before you notice that someones changing a diaper in the room.
I'm sorry if this is too harsh, but it's almost as if they don't even care about food, and just care about turning over as many tables as they can an hour... oh wait... that is all they care about.
Just writing this, makes me want to brush and take a shower.
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My dentist once was a part owner in one of these places. The Fac is great for children and old people from out of town. You won't offend anyone here. Except any Italian of course. I will admit it is a guilty pleasure I indulge in once every 20 years or so. Heh.
I go here once every few months but dont tell anyone.
Sometimes I like to have someone else's spaghetti after Sunday shopping instead of sitting at home watching something simmer for 6 hours. And I love their broccoli with Mizithra and brown butter. Or their spaghetti with Mizithra. It's not true Italian...and there's a million brats running around screaming like there's a perv around the corner.
I like it here sometimes. There, I said it.
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Welcome to blahville. I would like some blah with a side of meh.
The food tastes like the food I would make after I just had a beer ( or two) and got hungry. The atmosphere is child and family craziness (don't expect to talk much over the din). The waiters are ... well ... not the best. Sure you could eat here, but why not throw some noodles in your own pot, heat up some cheap sauce (it will still be better, I assure you), and have your dinner at home for cheaper (money, not taste wise)?
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My experience here was very 'ok'. Not in an 'I'll come back to this place, it's ok' way, but in a 'ok, I've been here, I'm not throwing up' way. My wife, however, didn't enjoy herself at all. She said the pasta sauce on her spaghetti tasted like it just came out of a can, and she's probably right.
The decorations are ok, but the vibe is very much a get-in and get-out tourist cattleyard. They have a bit of parking, which is nice for downtown, but the food isn't really very good. I'm sure there are better places, and we won't be going back.
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I appreciate decent, cheap food. What I don't like is having to eat said food in a room full of screaming kids and having to listen to the Happy Birthday song being sung every five minutes...by 20 waiters, very loudly.
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Ooophh.... and not in a good way...
If the word "spaghetti" is in the business name wouldn't you think they'd know how to prepare it!?!!??!
Okay, this is a MEGA chain, I mean it spans what, almost the entire US, Hawaii and parts of Canada for cripes sake. They have got to be doing something right, right?? Hard to say, I still think there is some kind of highly addictive agent added to the "garlic" butter, or maybe it's the crack they sprinkle over the tasty ice cream....hmmm.....must get ice cream....
While this place isn't a "fine" dining experience, and I don't believe they claim that, you'd think the pasta would be cooked better. Sauces are standard, nothing close to my Italian in another life Mother can make, and the salad is close to being dead or dried up and well basically lifeless.
This place is popular, why you ask, I can't really figure it out, but I'd guess it's the prices. I mean for what, under $9 you get a 3 course meal and while it isn't going to be a life changing experience, it satisfies for the most part.
If pressed I'd lean toward the Lynnwood location.http://www.yelp.com/bi... Get to either location early, you might get seated within a decent time. Waterfront location does have "free" parking but you are limited to the amount of time you can spend there, so don't think you can sneak across the street to check out the sculpture park and then eat, they'll tow your sorry ass away in a blink of an eye, so make sure to check in with the lot attendant!!
Oh, and a note to the host/hostess staff, if people are gathering around the check in station and it isn't quite time to open up, PLEASE say something to the masses of sheep milling around waiting for some kind of instruction. Try this, uh, "Welcome to the Ye Olde Spaghetti Factory, barf-a-toriums are in the back and please reuse your feathers..."
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I've been eating a few time a year(when in Seattle/Spokane/Vancouver BC for around 25 years. I can't speak for any other dish they serve, BUT, of dozens and dozens of cheeses in France and all over, I have yet to find a Mizithra cheese that compares to that of this chain. Normally I HATE chain-places, BUT, I have never regretted a meal at the Seattle, Spokane, Vancouver(Canada), and now the Lynnwood branch. Yes, it's not a high-class place......but never anywhere else, even specialty delis have I found a mizithra cheese that rivals this chain's blend! You get a salad/soup, a loaf of bread, milk, and ice cream for UNDER $10. Contrary to what I see others have wrote, I have ALWAYS had eager staff, friendly and fast to serve. . . Usually seems to be college kids trying to make some tips for their high-priced education!
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Welcome to Balsack. Wait, I mean the Spag.
Did I walk into a high profile restaurant Ala Sex in the City? No? Well you would've thought so by the attitude the hostess was projecting. Actually, if you dyed her hair red and put on some bright green shadow, she could've been the bitch assistant character from the Devil Wears Prada.
70 something little old lady: Hi. My daughter called in. Table for twelve
Bitch hostess: ... We don't take reservations : | (that's her look)
70SLOD: Can you tell me the wait for twelve?
BH: is your complete party here? : |
70SLOD: Um, well, no not yet...
BH: well I can't tell you how long the wait is until everyone is here. I also, can't seat you until your entire party has arrived, restaurant policy : |
70SLOD: um, ok?
She seriously looked so defeated, poor granny
It's a chain, so you know what you're gonna get. Which is fine with me. They have decent food and decent prices. The hostess however, can stand to take the stick outta her arse
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Pretty unimaginative chain restaurant with ok pasta. I actually found myself craving Olive Garden instead. Sigh. However, it's a good place to take the family if you have ten loud children under the age of five and want to be as loud and messy as possible.
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I love the concept of this restaurant. Its affordable, quick, and quaint. The food here is good. One price for bread, soup/salad, entree, and dessert. I've been there a few times lately, because I always see myself coming back because of how my previous experience was.
There is alot to choose from at this restaurant. Lately I've been getting the spaghetti with brown butter and mizithra cheese. So delicious if you like that cheesy taste. Their tortellini is great too. Oohh and the spumoni ice cream... soo bomb! i love it. If you tell them its someone's birthday, they bring you at a special dessert. Im not quite sure what it was, but my friend let me take a bite, and it was sooo delicious. So sweet and crunchy on the top.
The service here is pretty fast. They brought everything very quickly, but if you're on the go, then this is the place for you. They are somewhat prompt, but the food just popped out like it was nothing. hahah.
Two thing that I should say they need improvement on, is the parking and the dirty silverware. 1) If you're here on a slow day, ex the weekday, then come here, however, if you're planning on visiting during the weekend, You'll have a difficult time finding parking. 2) The silverware is just dirty! There was some hard glossy stuff on my spoon, and i asked for another one, and the waiter brought me another one, with another hard glossy stain, i swear it could have been hardened caramel or something.
Other than that, this place is great!
I imagine the kitchen of OSF looks somewhat like an assembly line - big vats of pasta and sauce. An order comes in and they scoop up one kind of pasta, throw on the sauce, and out the door.
The food isn't bad, tis actually decent comfort food at a cheap price. Yes you can make it at home, and you can probably make it better, and you can probably make it healthier (I think I can HEAR myself getting fatter when I eat there) but when you are lazy and short on cash its a good option. Plus you get bread, salad and dessert all included, and the wine is cheap.
If you are in a hurry, the food comes out fast. If you want to take your time and ordered an appetizer, do not order your meal until you get your app because they really shove the food out fast.
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Oh GOD why did I come here.
So it was our 11 month anniversary, and I left it up to the boyfriend to pick a place to eat. He did not have anything in mind by the time he met me at my work. In an extremely pissed off mood I said, "fine let's just go to the spaghetti factory." When I was a kid, I loved this place. The love does not translate with age.
We get there, order an appetizer and a bottle of wine. Literally 20 seconds after we ordered our appetizer, it came! And THEN, 10 seconds after that came, our bread came too. It was almost like they wait to give you bread so you will order an appetizer. It's pathetic. So we have this artichoke dip thing with bread, and then another thing of bread and butter. I felt like a horse.
Then we order our meals. Not even 2 minutes into our appetizers do our SALADS come. I'm like, hello, we just got our friggin appetizer! Not to mention bread! COME ON gimme some TIME.
We start eating our salads and THEN OUR MEALS COME. Talk about rushed. My boyfriend and I just sat there giggling to ourselves, not able to believe what the hell is happening. Seriously, we got all of our food in about 5-6 minutes.
I ordered the trio sampler or something, with 3 different types of spaghetti. To this place, that means dump a bunch of spaghetti on a plate, and pour three sauces in 3 sections. It looks like a 5 year old made it.
To have a good "fuck you" to the establishment, my boyfriend and I took our sweet time- but then decided to get out of there because it was just too horrible.
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The Old Spaghetti Factory is a poor mans Buca Di Beppos.
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The food is as good as it gets at any of the other Old Spaghetti Factories but hey it's cheep and we were really hungry once we drove into Seattle and they had a parking lot that was FREE. The difference between this one and the others that I have been to is that all of the workers here are from one of those zombie movies. Come on people, I know people from WA and OR have a higher depression rate but the weather outside was amazing. No reason to be dragging there feet and talking so slow I wanted to wind up our waiter or slap him on the back of the head. Amazing our meal came out in a reasonable amount of time.
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OSF makes really basic and eatable pasta meals for pretty cheap. For $11 you get: bread, a drink (coffee, tea, milk, ect...), a soup or a salad, a pasta dish, and a dessert (a scoop of ice cream...spumoni for the win).
This place is good if: you're on a date in high school, you're going out with family, or if you're simple too lazy to make these simple pasta dishes yourself.
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Worst. Meal. Ever.
(ok, probably not EVER, but still---yuck!)
I don't really know what I ordered, or why. I think I was too frightened of the whole thing. The couple sitting next to us were from another planet--seriously! She ordered a salad hold the lettuce and was thrilled when she was delivered a plate of croutons and 1000 island dressing. Umm....wtf? He was a pepper freak who actually unscrewed the cap from the pepper shaker and poured pepper directly onto his lettucey salad.
Hello? Did I just enter the bizarro world?
I remember whatever I ordered was very bland but very gross. I think Chef Boyardee from a can had better flavor.
Why oh why do people like this place? It's allure escapes me, but then I am from Earth.
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There's a reason why they call it The Spag. I took my famished kids here before we went to the sculpture park on the waterfront. I regret that now. We really needed something to eat. Everyone's blood sugar was low and stomachs were growling. First off there weren't that many people there, yet we were made to wait for quite a while. The host was rude. The wait staff hated their job. We could either 1) leave and drive to McThrowups, or 2) stay and hope that spag and meatballs would arrive soon. Looking back on this, I am thankful that the food was a notch better than a Swanson's TV dinner. I did have to ask for bread, and then butter. This place used to be at least an average family dinging joint, but now it's all streaming downhill like a steamy digested mess of projectile pasta.
This place is consistent all right. Consistently mediocre. I recommend this place for people who haven't eaten since yesterday and have a desire to be ignored and/or insulted by a host or some of the apathetic wait staff.
If you have the option of choosing another affordable pasta chain, try buca de beppo, which isn't actually too far away by car.
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We've eaten here a few times, and it's remarkably consistent, though fairly consistently boring as well. The meat lasagna is good, the spaghetti is acceptable, and the decor is pretty fun. Service can vary but is typically good, slightly better than Red Robin, nowhere near a "real" restaurant.. Tulio, Sages, etc.
It's busy and you can call ahead on weekend nights. Good luck finding free parking here!
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The smell. Oh, god. The smell.
When I was contracting at Real Networks, I would occasionally trot over here for lunch. I finally had to stop. The food is unremarkable but edible. The bill is always reasonable. The waitstaff is usually spacey but kind. The lasagna isn't gold, but it ain't bad.
But the musty smell of this Spaghetti Factory and EVERY Spaghetti Factory that I have ever been to makes me want to gag. They choose old buildings for their historic charm, but the must and mold and dead mice in the walls makes me feel like I might faint every time I walk through the door. It's purely olfactory (ha! Ol' Factory! Now THAT'S funny), not psychological, as I have nothing against mice.
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This place is about a block away from my house, which unfortunately means whenever I have someone over and they want to go to dinner, this is always their first suggestion due to its convenient location :/
My friend described it best at my last visit partway through our meal- "well, you certainly don't come to the spaghetti factory for the food OR the service!!" It's cheap, you get a lot of food for what you pay for, but the food is bland and just.. not good! They do have a really good balsamic though, I will give them that. The bread they bring you is seriously so incredibly hard to cut, it's like a joke trying to cut yourself a slice of bread without completely indenting the loaf with your fingers in order to hold on to that sucker.
The past 3 times I've been there, I've seen people grow impatient waiting for their server to return and get up and start pouring themselves water refills, and even last time the lady went around asking the other tables if they needed a refill. The first time I went there on a Tuesday late at night with my parents, and the service was still bad even with us being one of about 4 other tables.
The only reason to come here is if you're real hungry and don't have a lot of money to spend.
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I came here for dinner this past weekend. As a kid the Old Spaghetti Factory was a special dinner place saved for birthdays or such. Haveing never stepped foot in this Old Spaghetti Factory before and not having been to on in over *cough* 15 years *cough* I wasn't sure what to expect. Funny thing it was just like the one back home I use to go to with trolley car inside and everything. Even funnier is the menu is pretty much the same as well.
I ordered my usual, spaghetti with brown butter & mizithra cheese it tasted just like it did the last time I had it. One of my dinning companions had the baked lasagna and she wasn't impressed my other dinning companion had the chicken parmigiana and he enjoyed his very much. The bread and garlic butter were just as I remember as well I had to refrain myself from slathering a whole loaf with it and keeping it to myself.
The service was very hit, I know it was busy but when you walk by the table and one of your customers is trying to get your attention acknowledge them don't ignore them, I know she saw me I looked her right in the eye. Five minutes later she stops by after hitting all her other tables in the area I wasn't too pleased. But what can I expect for a cheesy chain Italian place that caters to family's with kids and tourists?
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Last night during the Crazy Ass Wind And Rain Storm 2006, I got trapped at work. Traffic was grid-locked, so nine of us ventured out to the only restaurant within a few block radius -- the Spaghetti Factory.
I have mocked this chain dozens of times. In fact, when I lived in Atlanta back in the day, I purposefully chose the SF as the place for a breakup date because I didn't want such a sad moment to happen in a place I might ever enter again. And so it has been, for over a decade. Until last night.
As reluctant as I am to admit it, the SF was pretty delish last night. The red wine was freakishly sweet, something that might have been unacceptable in other circumstance, but for $16 a bottle with 50mph winds gushing outside -- it hit the spot. As did the spaghetti cooked with browned butter and mizithra cheese and tomatoes -- hello, fatcarb bomb!!
While normally I'd say to avoid a trite pseudo-Italian-American chain, some nights you need salad, pasta, dessert, and beverage for $10. If so, this is your place.
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I can not wait to lose some weight, so I can gain it back here. Carbs galore! First, they have fantastic sourdough bread. Always warm and fresh out of the oven with a choice of garlic or butter spread to go on top. Recently, they allow you to order soup instead of salad with your order. I always get the soup, but they do have a killer vinaigrette. For lunch, I always get the spaghetti with meat sauce hearty platter. It is only I think a $1.50 more so why not. And besides, whats the reason not to get overly stuffed that it hurts. And after the bread, soup, and spaghetti, I always get the spumoni ice cream.
Good food, good prices, good time.
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Trip one:
Ordered a side salad with casear dressing and fettucnine alfredo, drank wine. Side salad came with honey mustard dressing and the server did not offer to replace it. When the pasta came i took nearly half a shaker of parmesan cheese to make it the LEAST bit tasty, it was essentially noodles in warm milk. (i talked to someone over the phone there and he ACTUALLY SAID it was supposed to be a little bland! who in their right mind says that?) The wine sucked too. Sure we got bread, but it was just bread. Then on a trip to the ladies room i passed to hostesses coming down the hall, neither of which even considered yielding to the customer, both of which ran me into the wall.
So I wrote a Nasty comment card and sent it in. The sent me a gift certificate for two entree's. (points for that) So i actually decide to step foot in the place again. (hey i'm a college kid, free food is free food)
Trip two:
I am immediatly served a salad with the wrong dressing. It is replaced. The waiter brings us cheese bread without asking, but luckily later we don't have to pay for it. The dinner is better this time but nothing special. We are sat next to a birthday party with screaming children in attendence. We wait for refiills, food, and check.
strike 2, and that's all they are going to get.
Don't bother unless you want a place to take your screaming kids.
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i love the antiques... "old spaghetti factory....here I come"!
strawberry lemonade with free refills, it's just the best deal on any menu.
a mini loaf of fresh bread like the french baugettes my mommy use to make in childhood.
salad.... one can never go wrong with lettuce, carrots and tomato having a tad of dressing.
eggplant parmesan..... my favorite. then, it came. why did i forget it's the worst thing on the menu?!!!
memories past flooded me. smells like rotting salmon...... eewwwhhhhh!
heck.... over-cooked pasta with the mozzarella from on top of the salmon with a little parmesan is actually decent. it could compete for baked spaghetti.
chocolate mousse cake to go, because everyone around me was ordering it. plus, it looked like a dreamy, creamy kind of wonderful. but i wished they had apple pie on the menu. i'm not a lover of chocolate... really.
and i have heart burn. dang tomato sauce does it every time. why did i every go to old spaghetti factory?
oh yeah... next time, remind me not to be intoxicated by the gorgeous ambiance.
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not your run of mill Italian place. never. the service here has always been crappy. the food served here has always stayed the same... but never impressed. no reservations? boo.
i've been coming here since i was a kid... STILL no satisfaction. i don't even know how this place has stayed open for so long... but i guess some people enjoy the ambiance and food here. which i have NOTHING to like.