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Had a fillet, baked potato and a salad. Fillet was great and potato were great. Presentation was marginal, fillet on top of a piece of bread. Plate seemed stark, could have put potato on the same plate instead of an additional plate, offer a nice vegetable, instead of lettuce with three cherry tomatoes. Not a bad experience and I hope it was just a one time experience.

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★ 5

They were short a bartender and server the night we went. It was still a wonderful meal and experience.

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★ 5

Fisherman's special was awesome.

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Excellent Italian food.

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Italian influenced menu with good nightly specials, family friendly and decent prices.

Most recently (July 2025) with our large family of 10, great service and food from Jesy (server) and Ginger (bar), awesome martinis.

Be sure and make a reservation!

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★ 5

Five star food five star staff

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★ 5

Fantastic food every time! Our go-to place for chicken parm, but you can't go wrong with anything on the menu!

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So loud I couldn't eat.

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Got there at 5:15 hardly any one there asked if we had a reservation. No so we will come find you fifteen minutes. after watching others getting there seat went up and asked how much longer it would be because it has been 45 min I was told it would be another hour still not busy so we left I got the feeling that we were not welcome because we were not locals☹️☹️☹️

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★ 5

Great food, wonderful service, relaxing atmosphere!

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Awesome food. Friendly staff

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Unassuming restaurant on the street. Service is very courteous and caters to the customers' wishes.
The staff is friendly and always strives to ensure satisfaction.
The food is very tasty. We had baked garlic bread with a special sauce for dipping. The main course was pepper steak with mushrooms and fettucine, which was a real explosion of flavor.

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★ 5

Wonderful dining experience; lots of people enjoying dinner, all the dinners were great, specials on food and drinks definitely worth consideration. Our waitress Jessie was knowledgeable about menu items and generally a joy to take care of us Saturday evening. I chose the linguine Alfredo with scallops and salad with house dressing and blue cheese. Wonderful

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★ 5

Italian Fest.

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This place is fantastic! They had a couple parties happening at the time we walked in, but you'd never know as everything was wonderful from the service to the drinks to hot food!
Our server was wonderful and explained everything in detail as we had never dined there. The pasta is made fresh every day and the sauces are made to order.
My only recommendation is to make reservations before going(or you may not get to eat!) We didn't know this and just walked in. However, we were the last walk in they could take and it was 530 on a Sunday afternoon.

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Great food and a beautiful restaurant! The service was very courteous and attentive. We enjoyed drinks, appetizers, entrees, and dessert! All were excellent, and we highly recommend the filet and the ahi!

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Went in on a Saturday at 6pm. Restaurant was empty aside from 1 other group.
I had the sautéed shrimp and fettuccine, my partner had the Italian Festival.
The food was awful. Nothing was freshly made. Cheap ingredients. Expired shrimp.
The only thing good about the meal was the bread.
The salad consisted of limp lettuce and two soggy tomatoes, dressing, and nothing else.
The only cheese option was a shaker of cheap parmasan cheese that resembled sawdust
The shrimp had a strong sea/fishy taste/smell and tasted sour/racid. The shrimp was obviously expired/rotten. Utterly awful to eat, along with no seasoning at all.
I had to spit the shrimp into a napkin.
We were given no choice as to what sauce our pasta would come with.
The pasta was undercooked. Very chewy. Raw, flour taste. Couldn't cut through it with the fork.
Both dishes came with a red tomato sauce. The pasta sauce tasted like something from the Dollar Store... Watery, flavorless, and very acidic.
We will never eat there again.
One of the worst meals I've never had.

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★ 5

Always delicious. Best Gimlets, and staff is great

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This place is my family's favorite. Great for special occasions and the homemade pasta dishes are elite!

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The 8oz Tenderloin was marked “market price” on the menu. When we got the bill it was $44.00. The same steak (with garlic toast and a side) at T&T is $28.00. Very disappointing.

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Best pasta!!!

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Our group of 4 stopped in fairly late on a Sunday after golfing. The staff was very accommodating. The food and drinks were excellent. Homemade pasta, gnocchi and sauces are worthy of a return.

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Fantastic service, friendly!! Great food!

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Amazing food and amazing people who work here and own. Will be a forever customer. Won't be disappointed with anything on their menu.

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This place is a joke. Got seated and then waited for 30 mins and no one acknowledged us. Place was not busy when we showed up! People showed up after us and they got drinks and serviced. Completely disappointed!!!

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First time eating here. Food was hot and fresh. I fell in love with the fettuccine alfredo. I also had steak and a baked potato, The tenderloin was the most tender I have ever had and the bake potato was just normal. Look forward to returning in a couple weeks when we are in the UP.

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My favorite is the chicken alfredo. Also, be sure to get the peppercorn ranch dressing for your salad.

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★ 5

Excellent Northwoods Experience, never disappointed

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I came here and I'm disappointed in what I got cause I ordered a medium steak and they gave me a well done steak and then they said they won't make me another one and they told me the owner was cooking and he or she messed up my food and wouldn't give me another one after waiting 1 hour for for steak and I was calm and waited patiencely the only good thing was there fries

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★ 5

Never disappoints! Food is always consistent. Staff very friendly and attentive. Love the gnocchi parmesan with spicy sauce.

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We got to El Capitan right before they needed to serve a big wedding. To make sure we got our food quickly, they told us about this so we could plan accordingly. The drinks were mixed perfectly. The food was great and the service was absolutely amazing! Can’t wait to go back.

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★ 5

Food and service were great as always!

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This joint is authentic as it gets. All the pastas were full of rich flavor and spiced just right. The beef entree with shrimp was my jam. Cindy was our waitress and she went above and beyond with everything. All the locals mentioned that this was by far their favorite place, and they weren’t wrong, wow!

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★ 5

Food and drinks were very good.

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Excellent food and service.

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Walked in 2 tables had customers. 20 empty tables. Asks if we have a reservation? What!!! No reservation no service. Horrible. Never go there.

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★ 5

Their food is amazing!

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Yeesh. Comedically bad on all levels.

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★ 5

A true Northwoods supper club. Impeccable cuisine and service. Steak and seafood of course with an accent on Italian. Call ahead for reservations as their days and hours are limited right now. If you enjoy being pampered do stop in.

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★ 5

Hand made pasta is outstanding, the drinks were hearty, and the staff was wonderful!

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As delicious as ever! Friendly service! Busy place...be sure to make reservations!

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Always good service and dinner at ElCap.

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Great authentic Italian food!

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Great service

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Good food wonderful service...

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Cindy took such great care of us and the food was INCREDIBLE. Don’t skip the chicken parm or any of the homemade pastas.

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★ 5

Friendly and attentive staff. Our server Doug was great. The food was amazing! I hadn't eaten here in years and it was always good, but I truly think this is the best in the area! I certainly won't be waiting so long to go back. I had the surf and turf...fabulous!

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★ 5

We came here for our first time last night and me and my girlfriend loved it! The atmosphere was comfortable and the food was great, Some of the best gnocchi I've ever had!

I come from an Italian family and this was as good as it gets! 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

And our waitress Julie (I hope I got her name right) was funny and accommodating.
*** i hope she finally found her glasses 😅

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Service was good, menu was simple and definitely favored pastas. Food was good, but we felt the red sauce was a bit on the tomato side for us. Dinning area was well lighted, comfortable and spacious.

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★ 5

Always excellent! Good people. Great staff.

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Outstanding!! Ask for Ginger...she will treat you well!

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Amazing authentic Italian! Miss it greatly since moving out of the area, can’t find anything even close.

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Great Christmas Party!

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Great food friendly service💕

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The staff is always great and they have great food. They go above and beyond to make sure you're happy and that everything is good.

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Yummy

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Great Italian food homade

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Always consistent. Try the extra spicy garlic sauce with your pasta!

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Our extended family met at El Capitan Supper Club for dinner and enjoyed a nice meal with great service. The wait staff was experienced in mature. Numerous Italian pasta dishes to choose from, fresh salad, and good bread. This restaurant has been open for a number of years serving the local community. We enjoyed eating there well in town.

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★ 5

Great Italian restaurant. Had a table by a window looking out on the yard and had a show with dinner. 4 bucks, free-roaming chickens, and rabbits. The food was delicious and the service was outstanding

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Always good food and good service.

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Friendly staff. Food was good.

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★ 5

The best Italian restaurant in the area and one of the only places in town to get calamari. They have the best ravioli.

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Didn't have food listed on menu. Slow service and takes over one hour to get seated when the place is empty. Not worth time and effort.

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The food is amazing, the wait staff are prompt, and it's amazing atmosphere!

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★ 5

The home made sauce with the homemade gnocchi, ravioli or pasta is phenomenal. If I’m craving steak the tournedoe never disappoints, and the sautéed mushrooms and onions are always fresh. The home made bread with the mussels are my app of choice. You can’t beat home made!

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★ 5

Great food!

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Terrible experience. Started with warm shrimp cocktail at the bar, an extra long wait for a table, ran out of the nightly special, pasta sides not cooked to even al dente, pasta sauce tasted like watered down tomato paste, steak tough and arrived with missing ingredients. Baked potato and bread was good though. Not sure what happened last night but not a smooth running operation.

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Great food, friendly knowledgeable staff. Real handmade pasta, with homemade sauces... delicious! Not cheap but worth it. Daily specials and cocktails too.

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Good food, short help-but the rest of the staff really pulled their load! Awesome 👍

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Great food and lovely atmosphere.

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Great Food. Nice menu

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Excellent food and atmosphere. Fish fry prices a little high but pasta is reasonable.

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Good

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★ 5

Surprisingly excellent service, food, drinks! Had a fantastic Valentine evening. Order the mussels at bar... you won't be disappointed.

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Un memorable experience. Drinks are good, but food has slipped

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Excellent food, friendly service and reasonable prices.

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Very nice servers and overall staff. It's a little interesting to have to go to the bar prior to being seated. The bartender wasn't very knowledgeable on the different beer selections but her ability to make a great environment via conversation was delightful

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★ 5

Great place don't miss it

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When I arrived, I had to wait to be sat which seemed to be forever. There was no one to greet me as I entered. I was sat at a small corner table and it smelled suspiciously like urine. I asked my waitress if they had cats and she said no but was kind enough to move time to another table with less urine smell. I asked her about drink and dinner specials ,she said she had no idea. She went to ask the bar staff and upon returning stated that they had no idea what the drink or daily specials were either. What!!?? Dinner was supposed to come with bread and side salad beforehand. 15 minutes after ordering, I began to wonder if I had been forgotten and tried to catch my waitress's attention to no avail. A bit after that my meal with salad and bread all arrive at the same time. My waitress apologized and offered to put my meal under the heat lamp while I ate my bread and salad, I declined. The gnocchi parmesan was good and the portion was huge. Its always an adventure eating in small town USA, sometimes I wish it wasn't.

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★ 5

The Best Cheese Ravioli.

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Excellent Steak,!

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Great, made fresh daily Italian food

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One if the best Pepper steak dishes I have ever had.

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Disappointed. Tiramisu is not cheesecake. Scallops mornay was watery not cheesy and a terrible price for what I received.

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★ 5

Wonderful staff. Great food

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Great pasta! I love the spinach linguine with clams!

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★ 5

great service, food, and drinks

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The absolute best Italian food I have ever had, period. Frankly, we should rename Italian food, “northern Michigan/Wisconsin food”, because the oldest recipe in Italy can ‘t touch this spot. If this place was next to my house I would be the next 600 lb. man. Wonderful, beautiful, amazing, awesome Italian goodness. Worth driving 200 miles just for takeout. Mmm mmm. I wish I didn’t live 8 hours away.

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The food and dessert were amazing!! Sarah our server was very attentive,polite and speedy. Wow!!we can't wait to come again!!👍👍

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Way to expensive for cocktails. Food was ok. But I would not go back

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★ 5

Excellent Italian food!

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Food and service was wonderful.

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We eat here every time we come up north; servers are always extremely pleasant, and all the food we have ever gotten here has been great. Prices are about what you'd expect for what's on the menu. Not a ton of variety, but enough to satisfy most people. I usually get the filet mignon or orange roughy myself.

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As tradition, we go here every year and have loved it every time. Servers are always attentive and friendly. We are never in a rush and just enjoy our time in good company.

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Amazing everything!! However......the bartender/server Ginger is so incredibly rude and offensive I will never return.

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★ 5

Amazing food, especially their Italian food!!!

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★ 5

Homemade Italian, great steaks, great seafood!

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Best steak in the area. Excellent service.

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Great food and service

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Italian is to die for and the shrimp cocktail is out of this world. Owner is a hoot.

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The food is authentic Italian and mouth watering. Everything is homemade and delicious. The service was excellent and I can't wait to come back here again next year. Business trips here are great because this is my favorite Italian place to eat. The dining area is beautiful and has a fetching view. I will always get whatever special they have during the week because it is well worth it!

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I have a dairy allergy... doesn't cook steak in butter but proceeds to put cheese on steak.

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★ 5

Always excellent food and beverages. Best homemade Ravioli and juicy steaks.

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Great friendly service. The fish fries were excellent!

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Excellent food and service.

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Good food at affordable prices. It can get busy at times so I would recommend calling ahead for reservations if you have a large group or it is a popular night.

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Great cheese ravioli with sausage.

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Fantastic food. Spendy but worth it.

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Probably some of the best food I have ever eaten. I've been here a few times and each time the meal was amazing. The staff is very friendly (Ginger has been our server twice and is wonderful) and the owner has come around each time to say hello and chat for a bit. This place is a MUST if you're for a great meal and a great time. Can't recommend it enough.

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Food was great Very noisy made it very hard for our group to enjoy our meals.

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Great steaks and spaghetti...

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I Love going to the El Capitain and is an all time favorite of mine .. The Food is always fantastic and home made :) if I had to pick some were to go everytime it would be the El Capitain !!!! The waitresses are always friendly to.

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★ 5

Excellent Fathers day meal. The steak was cooked perfectly. The wait staff was wonderful. The cocktails are great.

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Best restaurant ever!

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Terrible. Not sure how everyone has such great things to say. Way over priced and not very good. Salad clearly came from a bag at Walmart and the carts the wait staff pushed around reminded me of hospital or nursing home carts. Extremely disappointed.

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Love the pasta and gnocchi

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Had the Prawns and wife had steak&shrimp. Steak a little overdone but the rest very satisfying. Service was excellent. Will be going back. Hard to find anyone that can cook or grill a great steak besides me or Fontana's, who is now closed.

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Came in about 45 minutes before close. Was told over an hour wait for 2 people when there we plenty of tables available and noone was waiting before us. They could have just told us they were closing their kitchen early. Very rude!

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★ 5

5 star mothers day meal Thanks Julie and Steve for a Beautiful Sunday experience

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My wife and I have eaten here two different times. The first time the pasta was over cooked and the sauce was bland. We had shrimp, we couldn't eat them because they tasted of chlorine, caused by freezing for a long time and thawing in the chlorinated water. I complained and the owner made excuses and did not even consider the possibility that he could improve his quality control.

Two months later we gave it another try. We had pasta and meat. the sauce was thin and water pooled in the plate the sauce was very bland. The meat balls had no Italian seasoning and was very bland. the service was very slow and we were constantly waiting for service. We have decided to cross this off our list.

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