When I first moved to AZ, this was the first place I felled in love with but it has been 5 years now and I finally made it back (after several visits back in the day).\n\nToday I had a sweet and sour experience.\n\nI was craving the lasagna but I'm trying to keep the diet so I ordered the soup of the day (minestrone) and a pasta side (penne with tomato sauce).\n\nThe soup was superb (that's why it didn't get 2 stars). The focaccia that came with the soup was pretty decent and the ice tea (green tea) was pretty tasteful.\n\nBut the side pasta was totally forgettable. The sauce was pretty lame.\n\nAnd the worst, I got Parmesan cheese for the pasta and I poured a little bit on top. It was like talk but that didn't bother me. However all of the sudden I started getting this weird smell. The cheese was stinky. Not like in a delish stinky French cheese, more like in a Whoeverbertos-sh@#hole-cleaning-table-cloth stinky. It reeked. Fortunately I didn't pour much so I was able to manage to eat the pasta but it was bad.\n\nI didn't even bother to tell them since I was so upset. \n\nAnyways, I'll go back for sure because the several other times I really enjoyed this place, but this was a bad experience. Plus $ 11 for soup and side pasta is not like super cheap.\n\nMy advise: Smell the cheese before pouring it in your food!\n\nOne more thing. The spoon was super old and bend :(
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