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2010-04-03
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SUMMARY: The food, especially the salad has too much garlic. Tell them to leave off the dressing for the salad, and add only 1/4 of the garlic they normally use for all food. Toilet is authentic, which means it's not modern, and doesn't FEEL very clean. 7/10 overall.- - - - - DETAILS - - - - -OVERALL: This is a great restaurant, with ample portions of food at highly reasonable prices. For dinners, you can easily have a full meal at under $300 per head. The waiters are friendly and well mannered,
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OVERALL: This is a great restaurant, with ample portions of food at highly reasonable prices. For dinners, you can easily have a full meal at under $300 per head. The waiters are friendly and well mannered, and the atmosphere is really pleasant. I have been coming to this restaurant for years, but I finally had to write a review because there is one aspect that irritates me so much but my complaints have fallen on deaf ears. So I hope Management will read this review and do something about it.
GARLIC OVERDOSE: This chef overdoses on garlic big time! This is not a place to take a first date or a new girlfriend! They add too much garlic to their pasta and other dishes. But the salad is where they go to extreme! Even if you are not a vampire, be very careful with the regular Italian salad. There are heaps of raw garlic within the salad dressing. You can see bits of chopped raw garlic suspended inside the dressing! I always tell them to leave out the dressing and simply use the olive oil and balsamic dressing available on the table instead. Today they offered me dressing on the side. There were no garlic bits inside so I used the dressing, thinking it was safe. Big mistake. My mouth now reeks of garlic as I am typing this 5 hours later. I tried chewing on three airwaves gum, using Listerine twice, and have been brushing and flossing my teeth, but to no avail. I can't get that disgusting garlic taste out of my breath. Luckily I am a single guy.
COMPLAINT NOT REGISTERED: When I told the waiters of this problem before, they informed me that was how Italian food was prepared, and that other customers had not complained. I have lived in Italy for 3 months, and have sampled plenty of Italian food in Hong Kong, and yet I have never come across that level of garlic usage before. We are talking about raw, or almost raw garlic here! So I wish they wouldn't patronise me on this issue. I know what I am talking about.
DIRTY TOILET: The other issue which annoys me is the toilet. I can see they are going for the authentic look. But please, keep the toilet and the basins modern and clean! I can't stand those grimy tiles. I am not saying the toilet is actually dirty, but it FEELS very filthy, because it's so old. I am really not used to 1980s standard of cleanliness any more. HK toilets have become very clean over the last decade with auto flushing and auto taps. So use the toilet at home before coming to this restaurant.
ANTIPASTI FREDDO: There is also a third problem, though this is minor and more of a personal preference. The Antipasti Freddo has too much meat. The antipasti I am accustomed to having has equal portions of vegetable and meat, so that the salty meat is neutralised by the fresh taste of the vegetables. While I understand antipasti freddo is meant to have a generous serving of meat I honestly think they offer too much. Usually, I can only consume about 1/3 to 1/2 of the meat before my mouth becomes so salty and I have to stop. Besides, it's not very healthy to consume huge amounts of fatty salami. I have tried to ask them to reduce the amount of meat, which while they seem happy to oblige, they still end up giving me quite a lot. This is not so much a complaint, as there are ways to overcome this. You can simply keep the free Italian salad until the antipasti has arrived, so that you have more greens to go with the meat. Besides, no one is forcing you to finish all the meat anyway.
CONCLUSION: Other than these three issues, I am very happy with this restaurant. 7/10.
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