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    Odyssey Italian Restaurant - Cavatelli Di Casa Pasta

    Odyssey Italian Restaurant

    4.3(1.5k reviews)
    18.2 miAlamo Placita, Southwest
    $$

    This was our first time here, saw it had great reviews so why not come by and try something new. We…read morewere seated immediately despite it being so packed on a Monday night without reservations. The place is cozy, homey, and welcoming when you walk in. The concept of it being inside a home is very interesting. The food here is amazing especially their Caesar Salad. That salad was so delicious we wanted to order some to go. Now the reason why this place is getting three stars because 1. The service here is horrible! 15-25 minute wait for our server to come back around and check in on us. It wasn't just us either but it was everyone else in the room. Saw a couple that waited about 25 minutes just to be checked up on after being seated. We also never asked for our bill yet and it was given to us without us asking. We wanted to order more food after our entree. Hence why we never got to order our Caesar salad. 2. This one was the most disappointing part of our dinner. We ordered tiramisu for our dessert, once served I noticed a glossy chunky on it, assuming it was maybe crystallized sugar. Wrong. It was a chunk of ice!! The tiramisu WAS STILL FROZEN!! For 12 bucks I can get some better tiramisu at king soopers, Safeway, or any other restaurant honestly. 3. There was an ant in my drink, and we weren't compensated for that. We paid 4 dollars for an ant drink.

    We came to celebrate our anniversary The food and the staff were wonderful! This is a fantastic…read moreplace and a wonderful time not just for special occasions.

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    Difranco’s

    Difranco’s

    4.4(676 reviews)
    17.7 miCapitol Hill, Southwest
    $$

    DIFRANCO'S…read more I went to DiFranco's expecting a good Italian meal. I left wondering why I had spent so many years allowing myself to be lied to about pasta. This place is absurd. The food is actually seasoned. The pasta tastes like somebody in the kitchen has met an Italian person before. The sauces have depth. The portions don't feel like they're being rationed by the United Nations. You take a bite and immediately understand why restaurants were invented in the first place. And then I started thinking about Oliver's Italian. I don't know why. Maybe because I had recently eaten there. Maybe because trauma has a way of resurfacing when you're finally somewhere safe. Oliver's isn't so much an Italian restaurant as it is a building that has somehow acquired an Italian menu. You walk in and immediately get the sensation that you have entered the back room of a convenience store where someone has placed a tablecloth over a washing machine. The wine situation deserves its own investigation. I am not accusing Oliver's of anything. I am simply saying that if someone told me they bought their wine from King Soopers, poured it into a different bottle, whispered the word "Chianti" over it, and charged me three times retail, I would not be shocked. At DiFranco's, the wine complements the meal. At Oliver's, the wine feels like it was selected during a fire drill. And the cleanliness. Look, I'm not saying Oliver's is dirty. I'm saying that if you dropped a piece of pasta on the floor at Oliver's, I would give serious consideration to picking it back up because I don't know whether the floor or the pasta has a stronger immune system. DiFranco's feels like a restaurant. Oliver's feels like the restaurant equivalent of finding a raccoon inside your garage and discovering it has somehow obtained a liquor license. But here's the thing. DiFranco's is so good that I don't even feel angry anymore. I feel free. The pasta arrives and suddenly I'm standing on a mountain in Tuscany wearing linen. I'm hearing Italian accordion music. I'm forgiving my father. I'm calling my ex. I'm buying a Vespa. I don't even know how I got here. There are tomatoes. THE TOMATOES HAVE FLAVOR. Do you understand what this means? I've been eating tomatoes at other restaurants that taste like they were grown exclusively for decorative purposes. DiFranco's puts a tomato in front of me and the tomato has a fucking résumé. This review has now become less about DiFranco's and more about my ongoing legal case against mediocre Italian food. Your Honor, I would like to submit Exhibit A: DiFranco's. Exhibit B: The pasta. Exhibit C: Whatever the hell Oliver's is doing with that wine. I rest my case. Actually, no. I don't rest my case. I want dessert. And if Oliver's is reading this, please don't take it personally. I'm sure your restaurant is lovely. I'm sure the wine is wonderful. I'm sure the floor is clean. I'm sure the mysterious substance underneath table seven is completely normal. I'm sure nobody has ever looked at the ceiling and wondered if they were about to witness a minor structural event. I'm sure everything is fine. Everything is fine. Everything is fine. Anyway, DiFranco's is fantastic. 10/10. Would return immediately. Would recommend to anyone. Would probably fight a man in a parking lot to defend the pasta. And if anyone needs me, I'll be outside DiFranco's, staring into the middle distance, trying to remember what I used to think Italian food tasted like.

    People seem to love this small Italian restaurant, but it came up short for me. The best thing…read moreabout our experience was that they have a good selection of gluten free dishes on the menu. My son-in-law was happy about that. Now for the reason I won't be back. You order from the counter, which is fine. The thing that put me off was that they charge extra to use your credit card. Yes I know credit cards charge them and they want their customers to pay for that. (Shame on credit card companies!). But our order came to close to $100.00 and who carries that much cash? So that brought up the total. Then of course tip on top of that. No service to speak of except somebody physically carrying the food to the table. No checking back. Three of us ordered eggplant parm with spaghetti. It came with generous portions in two separate dishes. The pasta had a grainy texture that I didn't enjoy. The sauce needed to be brighter. The eggplant was almost too salty to eat. I just didn't enjoy my meal. A dry slice of bread (no butter) came on the plate too. I sopped up some sauce with it but it wasn't quality bread. I guess I was put off by the extra charge for the credit card and from there it was downhill for me. The gluten free dish was the best one, I guess. It was carbonara with penne pasta.

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    Boombots Pasta Shop - Boombots Menu

    Boombots Pasta Shop

    4.3(40 reviews)
    14.6 miNorthwest

    Tidbit!!! The Dirty Martini Bucatini is the anchor of the menu at the spirited sister restaurant of…read moreOdie B's. Loved the perfectly chewy ropes of bucatini tangled with crumbled blue cheese, Castelvetrano olives -- and vodka sauce? This should've been a weird disaster, but wound up being our table's favorite dish. Every dish is a commitment to the genuinely unexpected. There was something delightfully more than just salt, pepper and fry behind the eggroll-sized mozarella sticks. Then there was the fig gelato, flanked by warm pear -- and oh my gosh, the apple tart! We had to go back and reread the menu to realize that the caramel really was spicy! This kitchen really finds the funky note in a dish and leans into it. Come ready to share. Every item comes in a "single" and a "mingle" size, which was great for our table of four. We would order 1-2 mingle-sized items, pass them around, and argue about who gets the last forkful. The rough edge is perhaps the service, but this spot is new and finding its rhythm. We found the handoff between counter and floor to be clunky, since it felt like pressure to order in order to be seated, not to order drinks and wait for a table. Maybe this works in a larger space. Maybe they just need to smooth out the flow. Either way, the people are sweet, and the food delicious.

    We came here for a nice dinner night out after hearing great things about the restaurants and I was…read moresomewhat disappointed. Coming into it, I know Boombots has an eclectic restaurant with a fusion pasta menu, and I was fully on board with trying some weird, funky pasta. The restaurant was nicely laid out and decorated, and the vibes are great. The drinks are delicious and they have one of my favorite non-alcoholic cocktails (What the Hellyante). However, the mains come and the wheels fell apart. We got the congee risotto, the bucatini primavera, and the gyros cavatelli. Let's start with the positive. The bucatini primavera was tasty. The pasta was well cooked and everything ate very well together, albeit a little dry. Overall, a good dish. The congee risotto was also not bad. It was definitely one of the dish I was looking forward as someone who followed their Instagram, but the execution was off. The rice was well cooked but it ate just a tad bland. The 63 degree egg was just a tad over and unfortunately, the told was on the cold side. That said, it was tasty nonetheless. My least favorite part was the amount of toasted seeds on top. There was simply too much and it knocked the balance of the dish towards overly crunchy, which is not necessarily what you expect in a risotto or a congee dish. Finally, the gyros cavatelli was just not it. In my opinion, the dish just didn't work for me. It's a dish with za'atar pasta, gyros, cherry tomatoes, pickled red onions, crispy chickpeas, dill, nad tzakiki. The warm tzakiki sauce along with the picked red onions and cherry tomatoes ensure the dish eats on the sour side. For me as well, the warm tzakiki was off putting in smell and taste. The pasta was also undercooked and grainy. It wasn't al dente, just undercooked. And with everything, the gyros is kind of lost. Overall, just a really odd dish in terms of conception and execution, and one that I didn't enjoy. Overall, I will be generous and give 3/5. I think service was pretty good, the drinks were delicious, and the price was acceptable. Other dishes, such as the lumache and the salads, looks pretty good as well. But based on what I got today, I cannot recommend the dishes we got at Boombots.

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