Travis W.'s Profile

The good -
Gogonzola Tortalini was excellent!  Bread was also very tasty.  The atmosphere is a kind of quaint old house feeling.  It was pretty noisy in there due to the low ceilings but as long as you like a lively atmosphere it was pretty fun.  The wait staff was excellent.

The bad -
My wifes Ceasar salad was not that great - would recommend skipping that and trying something else.  The prices were a little higher than they probably should have been.  Parking is really tough along Main street there on a weekend night.

Overall though the experience was very good.  We probably wouldn't go out of our way to eat here but if we were in the neighborhood it would definately be high on the list of options.

Good -
Menu is the most diverse/expansive menu I have ever seen at any restaraunt by far.
Dessert options are excellent. Many many different places.  Great place for dessert.
The food is normally very good.
Prices are very reasonable.
Never had a problem with the service.
Atmosphere is pretty cool - kind of dark and "moody" for lack of a better word.
Outdoor seating is nice during the summer time.

Things that could be improved
The wait times for a table are 1.5-2 hours during weekend dinner time hours.  That is just absurd.  Sometimes when I go there they dont even have any beepers left to hand out.  The really should set up a reservation system for this restaraunt or build another one nearby.

I would really only recommend going here for dessert on during the week for dinner.  Or put your name in early and go shopping for awhile in the Bellevue Square Mall which is adjoining.

Pretty nice place.   Service was pretty good.  Hard location to find though.  Food was pretty good but the menu was kind of sparse - not many options.  Atmosphere was  OK but nothing special.  All in all - just a so-so place.  Probably wouldn't go back.

Poor service - waiter was snotty and inattentive.  Hostess wasn't available at the front when we came in for a couple of minutes.  Even when she finally showed up she had to go into the back to see if there were any tables before she could seat us.  My wife ordered a shrimp salad and the waiter delivered a spinach salad.  Then they put both on the bill.  Thanks a lot!  My wife ordered the salad dressing on the side.  The spinach salad came with the dressing on the side but the shrimp salad did not.  The chicken burger i ordered was nasty and messy - the bottom bun was soaked in some kind of juice.  My wife's salad had cheap frozen shrimp on it that were still chilled.  The atmosphere is noisy and not classy at all.  I expected a lot more from a restaurant in that price range and especially one affiliated with the Met.  We will not be going back there again for sure.

People - what do you expect?  It's chuck e cheese.  If your kids were writing the reviews they would give it 6 stars.  One stop shop for realtively cheap family dinner and some entertainment (never mind the freaky mouse dudes and animatronic stuff).

I feared that this place would be the dumpy dirty gloomy dive of my younger years, but I guess they have updated the place.  It's not bad now.

The pizza is not *that* bad.  Its not good either but its edible.

Just have the right expectations and attitude about it and you can have a good time.

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