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2007-12-05
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I went to La Piazzetta tonight with a few friends and it was disappointing - food and service.After we sat down, the waiter quickly took my drink order. Without having the time to look through the drink list, I ordered a cup of warm water as it was quite chilly that evening. The waiter looked at me and gave me the impression that she wasn't happy with my order of water. First of all, the bread was unappetizing - dry and cold. My friends and I usually like bread but we didn't have any tonight
After we sat down, the waiter quickly took my drink order. Without having the time to look through the drink list, I ordered a cup of warm water as it was quite chilly that evening. The waiter looked at me and gave me the impression that she wasn't happy with my order of water.
First of all, the bread was unappetizing - dry and cold. My friends and I usually like bread but we didn't have any tonight.
We ordered 3 appetizers to share - parma ham + melon, an eggplant dish in some kind of tomato sauce and a mixed green salad. We almost finished them, not that the appetizers were delicious but only we were hungry.
The salad didn't come with any dressing so I asked the waiter for it. She pointed me to use the vinegar and olive oil that were supposed to be for the bread. It felt as if we were in a fast food restaurant where we mix and match the condiments that are already on the table.
Two of my friends ordered a beef dish and a pasta ragout. They said the mains were so-so. My other friend and I ordered seafood linguine. The dish was huge and looked great with loads of prawns and clams. Both of us were impressed when we saw it. But when I took a first bite of the pasta I could feel many grains of SAND in it - and I haven't eaten any of the shellfish yet !
My other friend tried it and said the same so we decided to call the waiter and check with her. Consistent with the level of service from the start of the meal, she wasn't very helpful and questioned our comments. She then had to call her boss and reluctantly they took the pasta dishes away. We forced them to let us select another pasta dish. In order not to take any more risk, we decided to order another simple pasta dish this time and without seafood. We ended up just ordering linguine with mushroom in tomato sauce. Its the same tomato sauce as the eggplant appetizer and the pasta ragout that my other friend ordered.
Since the food and the service was so disappointing, we didn't order any dessert.
It's amazing that a restaurant that does not wash its seafood thoroughly and has such nonchalant service has managed to stay open.
Last of all, the singing was terrible, even disturbing. The only acceptable song was "Happy Birthday"
And overall the restaurant is not very clean.
One of my friends who was also disappointed with this meal said it was much worse than the last time she went. The food was no longer as refined as before. We decided not to return again.
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