I've been eyeing this place for awhile now, but it's always been too busy to stop in for dinner.\nAfter dinner plans fell through last night, we decided to pass by and check it out. There were tables available inside (yay!), so we requested a booth. After being seated, a (I'm guessing?) manager scolded the host/our waiter for not seating us in the area out front. It's a very tight area, you're on display for everyone to gawk at and it's noisy with all the foot traffic passing through. So,..... sorry to disappoint you dude, but that wasn't happening anyway. \n\nThey are VERY quick here. You're in and out, which I guess is why having only a few tables works well for them.\nWe ordered the calamari....good, not the best I've ever had. I have a strict no fish policy in the desert, but I have had SUCH a craving for calamari that I could not resist. \nThe caesar salad... probably the most delicious caesar I've everrrrrr had! Perfectly dressed and the lettuce was fresh and crisp, not at all wilted. \n\nOur entrees were the chicken parmesan and the penne in vodka sauce. Absolutely delicious. I would have loved to have eaten every bite, but I was quite full fairly quickly. \n\nA few issues I had with this place....\n-Of course, the above mentioned manager that got so annoyed made us both slightly uncomfortable.\n\n-....And while we're on the topic of discomfort, I was being seriously eye-fucked by the chef for the entirety of my dinner....\n\n-The \"bread\" served when seated was really just (overly) buttery garlic knots. And they were cold. Also, the soda I ordered was soooooo watered down. It looked like they had glasses with ice on standby. Weird.\n\n-There's a bin of what looked like biscotti that everyone kept reaching their gross hands into (despite the convenience of a set of tongs inside) and one particularly loud waiter would take a cookie and shove it in his mouth in between yelling at the cooks. I SAW YOU, SIR!!!\n\n-Lastly, towards the end of our fairly quiet meal a group of 8 or 10 40+ year old men came in and proceeded to act like a bunch of frat boys. They were loud and obnoxious... not to mention, completely inconsiderate. Every time something came to the table they ALL went \"EYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!\" and the staff only encouraged it. All conversation was out the window at that point because I couldn't hear over them. \n\nExperience was so-so, but the food was freaking good.
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