This meal started with iceberg lettuce and canned beets with 7 Sea's italian and went down hill from there. Second course: anti pasto. Which consisted of hamberger dills, canned olives, lunchables lunchmeat, recycled crudite and a passible bean salad.Next course: Mmm mmm good, mmm mmm good, that's what Este's soup is: Mmm mmm good.
Moving on to a tiny bit of riggatoni a la chef boyardee. (http://www.chefboyardee.com/ pages/home_flash.html) This was the highlight for me next to the bean salad.
Then my course of Chicken Romona. As I ate a quarter of it I couldn't help but think of how much I wanted a nice Stoffer's Italian Chicken parm dinner so I could be only spending $4.99 and be home in my underwear NOT listening to an old guy play bad piano... OK, the old guy along with the silver leaf wall plaster bits was the best thing about this place. I was so so so impressed by the decor... it brought me back to my NJ Italian upbringing... but my dreams were dashed to the floor when the food was served. Oh, the service was decent for sure.
One of my pet * bad teaves is throwing food away. I hate it. I ALWAYS take my leftovers no mater how lack luster the food is. Hey, lunch doesn't have to be entertainment, right? Well, my fiancee was STUNNED when I said, `Nope, I don't want it wrapped up.` That's how much I never wanted that chicken around me ever again. It wasn't even off tasting.. it was just what I'd imagine they'd serve at Italian night at the senior citizen's home. Perhaps now I'll be better prepared for that time in my life.
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