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The reviews of this restaurant are a mess..
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The WORST Italian food I have ever had in my LIFE. I actually had to get up and get some air because the lasagna made me nauseous.
The place is a garden floor of a charming brownstone, very romantic and the service is wonderful- hostess, waiter, everyone. But the food was atrocious. Seriously.
This is what we ordered:
Appetizers:
Risotto stuffed in sweet peppers- The dish looked pretty but had no taste. They forgot to add parmesan to the risotto. And the broth they cooked it in was obviously too bland.
Chopped Salad- Dish was okay. It was our second choice but the waiter told us not to order the grilled calamari.
Mains:
Spaghetti & Meatballs- The meatballs were bricks of dry tough meatloaf
Lasagna- The tomato sauce was tart and the meat was dry
We left hungry and on the way home debated going to Lenny's for a sandwich. I can't believe we dropped $115 on THAT.
I PLEAD to the owners, please get a new chef, new recipes.
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What a dissapointment. Three of us went for Sunday Brunch. Food was awful, service was terrible. During the entire meal, water has never filled in my glass. We had to hunt down waiter to get water. VERY expensive for small yucky food.
Except location, nothing can make this restaurant last. You can not fool NEW YORKER even you are GAGA family.
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A friend took me to this dump last week on my vacation to ny. If this is what passes for Italian food than chef boyarde is the greatest of all time. I threw up outside from the nasty food
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ONLY BECAUSE NO STARS WASN'T AN OPTION
Way below mediocre completely unimaginative poor executed Southern Italian at premium prices. Yes, believe it or not, that's the business model. It's a charming little place right near Lincoln Center so the wasted opportunity here is a shame. But it's terrible -- even their so called "specialties." The famous meatballs -- more like a meally sawdust balls with a sauce too cloyingly sweet for Chef Boyardee. The linguini with with calm sauce can't match a can of Progresso. The chicken Milanese was as tough as a shoe. And all of this at Babbo prices!!! Save your money choose any of the virtually countless small Italian places within two blocks of this place and enjoy a much better meal at half the price.
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feel bad about writing this review but this place is NOT GOOD. Possibly the worst food I've had in new york. sorry. Had the cucumber soup (super bland), fried calamari (ok...but most of it was fried tomatoes and onions...wtf?), mac and cheese side (nothing special). My friends had the lasagna and the chicken with peperocinis which I could tell just by looking at it was REALLY dry. Another had the lasagna which was also not that great. The only decent thing was the bread at the start of the meal which was actually pretty good, and the ambiance itself which is very cute, especially the garden.
The service was well intentioned but so random.....waited a few minutes for the maitre'd to seat me (not sure where he was...). Asked him for a thing of olive oil when the bread came (he never brought it), At the end the waitress very nicely offered to wrap my soup up for me but then put it in this huge 5x8 rectangular tupperware so literally the soup was sloshing around in this very thin layer at the bottom of this bin. Oh yeah, and then they brought the check and the damn pen to sign the check didn't even work!
so weird. It just seemed a little disorganized and everything didn't seem to coalesce together which I was very surprised by. A friend wanted to go for the celebrity connection but I probably should have heeded all the warnings!
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Maybe he shouldn't run such a disgusting establishment if he wanted to keep the A. You still get an A even with a couple violations. 19 violations is absolutely disgusting.
