Not very clean and patrons off-putting
My husband and I went there a few weeks ago for the first time and were very dissapointed. First off, the restaurant feels like a cafeteria becuase the lights are kind of bright-not very romantic, one of the waitresses was actually vacuuming the floors while people were eating so she could leave, there was a hair in my salad bowl and a chunky little thing on my wine glass.
The table behind us who were clearly regulars and were "in" with the staff loudly bashed all other backgrounds who were not Italian..."drunk Irish"..."bash this person's head in"....we were so uncomfortable we barely finished our dinner and walked out the door, but not without being watched thru the window by "the Italian".
btw, I'm part Italian.
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