Vinni Testa's

 Tom B. wrote:
 >
 > Mizuno wrote:
 > > The Vinni Testa's in Brookline --- food and service was great, but the
 > > restroom facilities could be serviced or maintained better for their
 > > customers!
 >
 > We found the one in framingham to be mostly mediocre, although they did
 > do a decent pork chop, I don't think I will EVER order Lasagna there
 > again.  And, since I often want lasagna, that is a BIG strike!  :-)
 > (Waaaaay overcooked pasta......Blechh....)
 > --
 > tom
 > [email removed]

 I haven't been to the Vinny T's in Natick (next to Fairway
 Bowling alley), but the steaks at the Newton location (Comm.
 Ave.) have always been adequate and a relatively decent meal.
 Their pasta dishes are always huge.  Granted, the pasta might
 not always be cooked like it should be, but more often then not
 it is prepared well.

 I enjoy it because I get a level of decency at an appropriate
 price.  Plus I can have my fill of roasted garlic!  :>

 Bill

 Shawn wrote:
 > Someone wrote:
 > > We found the one in framingham to be mostly mediocre, although they did
 > > do a decent pork chop, I don't think I will EVER order Lasagna there
 > > again.  And, since I often want lasagna, that is a BIG strike!  :-)
 > > (Waaaaay overcooked pasta......Blechh....)
 > >
 > wow, i had lasagna at their place in newton and was extremely (capital E)
 > pleased with it - i'm waiting to go back to have more!

 > maybe my lasagna meter tops out where yours starts off :-)  probably though,
 > you got a bad batch or the place in framingham doesn't keep up with the
 > folks in newton.  who knows.

 > vinni's wouldn't be the first good italian place to start going to pot once
 > they started spreading out.....

 Possible.  Ours was so bad, I got through about 10% of it and stopped eating.
 My wife always was quite appalled.  Her spaghetti was also overcooked, but
 was edible.  The sauces were just "OK".  We were never going to go back
 ever again, but had a "group night out" arranged by the students, which is where
 I had the pork chop (not too bad at all....quite edible), my wife once again
 had spag. and it was once again overcooked with ok sauce.  We won't go
 back, and will probably go to PappaRazi in Newton for lack of anywhere better at
 present, although their prices just recently went up.  (We have also found
 other PappaRazzi's to not be quite as good as that one.  Also last summer
 for about 3 months, they were BADly preparing their lasag.'s both overcooking
 the pasta, and Badly burning large chunks......)

 <sigh>   I dream of lasagna with a light meat sauce, delicate noodles
          slightly al-dente.........<sigh>

 :-)

 Anyone know if Felicia's is still in the N.End?  haven't been for years
 now, but they used to do a decent lasagna and an even better canneloni (sp?)
 We never did find the one little spot I popped into one day about 5 years
 ago and had the BEST lasagna of my life.......

 <sigh>

 (I knew I should not have skipped lunch today, now I am going to have
 troubles concentrating on this screen......  :-)