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Originally Posted by Stewey  THANK YOU! I feel vindicated!
We have a Maggiano's here in Vegas that is horrible, but people will claim it is the best italian in town.
I don't know how some restaurants get their good reputations. |
We have one in Short Pump Shopping Center here in the Richmond area. My comment earlier needs to be retracted since we did try to eat there and.... No walk-in diners until 9pm and the food didn't look nearly as good as I remembered it. Most of my experience with them stems from Oak Brook, IL and Buckhead Atlanta. This is a good example when the powers that be let things get away from them and begin to shift focus.
Anyhow I can't make myself say that OG is that good. It's more just a personal and ethnic position. It wasn't too long ago that as an Italian the only time you ate Italian food at a place other than your own home was when you went to relatives or home for a visit.
Having worked at Buca, I have to admit that for a major chain, they came closer to some of my families cooking than any other place in my life. Like I said as an Italian ya just didn't go out for Italian food.
I think we now tolerate many places just out of sheer convenience but OG is not one that I can tollerate more than once a decade. Also for me, RL is just too much like a fishy Mickey D's.
Ya want to enjoy lobster? Make it an event and go to a really nice place, order a COLD water tail or pick it out of the tank, sitback, order a nice bottle of wine and ENJOY!!!!! Cheap food is exactly that. Cheap
There was a saying out there Rochester NY way how did it go? Cheap food isn't good and good food isn't cheap...But it's always worth the wait.
