In article , [email removed] (Meg Worley) wrote: > Jo Ann pandificates: > >Don't know about I Fratelli, but I will try it. > > Do. We went again a couple of nights ago, and it was just > what we wanted it to be -- good selection, good food, good > wine list, laid back. The only thing it isn't is "located > where Don Giovanni's is." Sigh. This is one of those restaurants that I see a crowd in, make a note to go back there, but somehow never do. Thanks for the positive review; maybe that will make the difference. > Bandera gets up my nose in a big way. We have a friend who > used to haul the gang there, and the place treads on every > one of my culinary toes: Greasy food, over-large portions, > squalling kids, clientele that reminds me why I left Tennessee, > etc etc. I never tried either the short ribs or the g.m.p's, > though. Bandera has gotten greasier in the last year or so--the fish in particular, which is *very* bad, the meats to a lesser degree. Over-large portions is part of the point--it's a "don't eat lunch today, big dinner tonight" sort of place. What, perchance, does "clientele that reminds me why I left Tennessee" mean? Steve
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
ingesting Los Altos
Nina writes: >I went to dinner at I Fratelli for the first time about about 3 weeks >ago with my friend, Julie. I loved it so much, I took my husband to >dinner there 3 days later and then had lunch there with my friend, >Peter, 4 days after that! After being the one to start praising the Bro's, I have say this: We took friends there last night, and it was a suboptimal experience. The service stank, although it was clearly a short-term problem: Our waitress's honey was seated at the table next to us, and she kept going over to sit with him and make goopy faces (we discovered that he was just back from a 3-month modeling job in Europe). Everyone else said their dishes were good, but I submitted the cooks to my risotto test, and they failed miserably. They didn't use arborio, it was the wrong consistency & texture, and they tried to make up for it by adding waywayway too much cream. Bzzzt. So, by all means, try out I Fratboys, but don't get the risotto. And if you see a self-important model-boy sitting by himself, ask for another station. Rage away, meg