We returned recently and tried their pasta course prix fixe meal. It was supposedly 5 courses (I was thinking tasting menu like, not expecting huge portions), but they served it as 3 courses (salad, main, dessert) and the pasta was obviously premade and just glopped on the plate, one big spoonfool to each corner.\n\nThe only pasta that rose to the \"good\" level was the gnocchi. One tasted like vegetable stroganoff and was just nasty.\n\nCeasar salad had way too much dressing and tasted pre-made (kind of limp and drowning), the pasta as a whole frankly tasted like crap, and the dessert could have fit on a tablespoon.\n\nFurthermore, our server seemed rude since we weren't dropping $150 on dinner. We made no complaints as it seemed like one of those heavy handed places where the blame would clearly be placed on the patron, so we didn't bother. Just smiled weakly and paid the bill.\n\nIt was a big two star step down from our first experience, where I was probably generous as it was with 4 stars. \n\nFrankly, I'll take my business elsewhere with the many amazing Italian restaurants around the valley. Leave this restaurant to the Assisted Living crowd that spare no expense for frankly mediocre food.\n\nHowever, IF you have to go here (coupon, invited by another, etc.), stick to the following:\n\nOrder the parmesan encrusted fish (you can't go really wrong with that), and if you want a pasta course, stick to the gnocchi. And pass on dessert and salad course unless you like a ton of dressing.
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