The restaurant itself is quite large with décor that is fresh and modern with plenty of space between tables. Though I can’t help but feel this restaurant will go the same way as its predecessors in the same spot. For a Friday night, it was not even half full.
Our waiter, whilst pleasant and polite, was either distracted or didn’t listen properly. He suggested a Merlot to us and then brought over something different and seemed to have forgotten what he originally suggested. Also happened again when he got our choices mixed up and suggested that we must have decided to switch our choices between us. We had no confidence he would actually get our order correct since he didn’t write it down but fairplay to him as he did manage to the get the food right.
I’ve eaten at Cenacolo twice (at both branches) and both times I found the food to be below average. They should reduce the options on the menu and stick to a few really good dishes instead of offering everything under the sun. The pastas are cooked al dente and whilst the taste is somewhat acceptable, I can’t help but feel they use MSG. The steaks are terrible; tough and chewy with not much flavor. I ordered their Chicken Parmigiana and I still to this day am not sure of exactly what I got. The chicken breasts were thinly sliced and pan fried with a watery tomato sauce poured on top along with some mozzarella. This was served with oven roasted vegetables on a bed of an extremely weird tasting mashed potato. The mash tasted powdery which made me suspect that it was instant powdered mash.
Never had any gripe with the service but the food leaves a bad taste in my mouth (pun intended). Perhaps I’ve just been ordering the wrong thing, after all how hard can basic Italian food get?
Our waiter, whilst pleasant and polite, was either distracted or didn’t listen properly. He suggested a Merlot to us and then brought over something different and seemed to have forgotten what he originally suggested. Also happened again when he got our choices mixed up and suggested that we must have decided to switch our choices between us. We had no confidence he would actually get our order correct since he didn’t write it down but fairplay to him as he did manage to the get the food right.
I’ve eaten at Cenacolo twice (at both branches) and both times I found the food to be below average. They should reduce the options on the menu and stick to a few really good dishes instead of offering everything under the sun. The pastas are cooked al dente and whilst the taste is somewhat acceptable, I can’t help but feel they use MSG. The steaks are terrible; tough and chewy with not much flavor. I ordered their Chicken Parmigiana and I still to this day am not sure of exactly what I got. The chicken breasts were thinly sliced and pan fried with a watery tomato sauce poured on top along with some mozzarella. This was served with oven roasted vegetables on a bed of an extremely weird tasting mashed potato. The mash tasted powdery which made me suspect that it was instant powdered mash.
Never had any gripe with the service but the food leaves a bad taste in my mouth (pun intended). Perhaps I’ve just been ordering the wrong thing, after all how hard can basic Italian food get?
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