I sooo wanted to love Primizie. I live on the east side and we are lacking in fabulous italian restaurants so when I heard a new one had opened up on our side of town -- I was ALL over it! \r
've been twice and here's a rundown of what we observed on the 2 occasions:\r
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Food:\r
1st time:\r
Husband and I went with 2 friends and ordered an appetizer and 4 meals. The food was good all around -- I had the citrus marinated vegetables which, I thought were particularly good, everyone else said their meal was good.\r
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2nd time:\r
I came a week later with 2 girlfriends and told them they should try the citrus marinated vegetables -- and found that they were different! The first time had lots of greens -- green beans and broccoli along with eggplant etc. The second time was cauliflower, sweet potatoes and a lot of starches...they didn't taste citrus marinated and frankly they were WAY WAY oversalted and gross. I was shocked at the inconsistency. My friends weren't impressed either.\r
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Service:\r
Both times the service was reallllly lacking -- tea refills were non-existent -- our waitress (2 different ones) would disappear for 10-15 mins ata time. Further to that, the 2nd time we ate we were given a menu by the waitress and she said 'here is our happy hour menu -- you can order off of that'. We noticed it was the same menu for apps with a cheaper price so we ordered an app from that menu. When we got the bill it was the full price -I pointed it out, she left and returned and said ""oh, well, we can't adjust it because I ordered you the full price appetizer and it's bigger - so you got more""...I was quite appalled. She made a mistake and we got to pay? Wow. \r
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Too, the 2nd time we went, when we ordered that infamous app, it was supposed to come with bread -- it didn't - we asked and she said 'no this doesn't come with bread' we showed her the menu where it did indeed come with bread. She looked puzzled.\r
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Maybe they need some time to work out their issues??
Pros: Has a lot of potential to be a great east side eatery
Cons: REALLY NOISY -- you have to yell to be heard, Terrible Service, inconsistent quality of food
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