We finally had to leave. First was the menu. If you wanted a salad you had to pay $2.50 extra even though the menu said soup or a salad was included with the meal price. Second, if you wanted a Caesar Salad it was an additional $3.50 in addition to the $2.50 because lettuce was higher these days. yeah, .. under president Joe Biden everything is higher but Third; that’s not a good reason not to get a pen and write the correct prices over the incorrect ones. Fourth, the lousy soup, I ordered, Minestrone, because this is an Italian restaurant and everyone knows Minestrone is an Italian Specialty but it was the worst Minestrone I ever, ever had in over 63 years of dining out at restaurants in Philly where Italian restaurants are as numerous as the stars in the milky way.. (That’s hyperbole).  The so-called Minestrone was bean soup. Full of kidney beans that weren’t properly cooked with a few yellow corn kernels in it. The broth was not a recognizable liquid, it was an off-color brown. Fifth; The so-called salad my wife was served was a pitifully skimpy two dimensional salad when salad is supposed to be three dimensional… it should have some height. It had one small cherry tomato and one olive… Pathetic. The “Bread” was half of a hoagie roll.  Sixth… we were waiting and waiting and waiting and finally after about one hour of waiting hunger took over and we had to leave to get something to eat. We told the waitress, (only one for a dining room that held perhaps 60 people and had perhaps eighteen other diners besides us,) to bring the check we were leaving. She said she was sorry. We had to ask again. More I’m so sorry.. third time and she finally went to get the check. In all fairness to the restaurant and because this is our first bad experience there in perhaps 30 years they said there was no charge. It didn’t wipe out the worst restaurant experience of our lives. We don’t know why the service and the inaccurate menu prices happened. Maybe it was an off night but we weren’t told about the prices when we were handed the menus, only after we began to order. That’s fault number seven. Remember, Three Strikes and You’re Out! …. Seven strikes should close the joint and get new owners or at least someone who can manage the joint like it use to be managed.

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