La Piazza Dario

8 Reviews on “La Piazza Dario”

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  My wife wanted to try La Piazza Dario Ristorante Italiano for her birthday. I made the reservation online with the restaurant and called them to confirm since the booking system was convoluted. The fellow confirmed my reservation for 8 people and the fact were celebrating a birthday.Upon our arrival, we were greeted by the staff. The hostess did not acknowledge or ask who was celebrating their birthday..disappointing.The ambience was very romantic and classy but concerning. When we arrived at 6:15pm, there were 2 other tables occupied. As the night progressed, they left and others arrived but never exceeded 3 tables. Our hostess was super attentive and ensured all our questions addressed. We also advised her my daughter has a peanut allergy as stated at the bottom of the first page of their menus please let your server know of any food allergies.We finally decided on our appetizers and entres. The Calamari Fritti, Calamari Gridliati and tomatoes & mozzarella cheese were GREAT!When the hosts delivered our meals, they asked each of us if we wanted fresh ground black pepper or parmesan cheese. My daughter loves cheese and she asked politely for some parmesan cheese sprinkled on her Risotto ai Funghi Misti. The waiter responded by stating its NOT required since theres cheese cooked into the risotto. At home we purchase blocks of parmesan cheese but at La Piazza Dario they serve the powdered parmesan..Ive never seen this before except at the smaller Italian food chains where its on the table so you can sprinkle onto your food. I expected real parmesan served from a grater not scooped from a bowl in powder form.After the food was served, our waitress was nowhere to be seen but she was still walking around the restaurant but never stopped to ask how our meals were. It was like our table of 7 adults was invisible.I order the special pasta with game meat and my daughter ordered the Risotto ai Funghi Misti. The pasta noodles for my special pasta with game meat tasted undercooked but I just ate it and decided not to bring it up as an issue. There was NOTHING special with the game meatbasically game meat ground up no more than a couple ounces.My daughter was unable to eat her risotto because it was under cookedthe grains were soft on the outside but crunchy on the inside. I brought it up to the waiter and he basically told me its supposed to be like that – sometimes it soft and sometimes it has a crunchy texture depending on how its cooked. Can you imagine if you had a problem with undercooked meat and you brought it up with the waiter and given the same response? Not a good situation.After our meals we ordered desserts from the waiter and not the waitress shes MIA. We asked if any of the desserts had nuts and he was unable to advise and ran off to the kitchen to ask or look at the packaging since they dont make their desserts. The waiter was definitely NOT aware of my daughters nut allergy.waitress did not share the information with him.Would I go back?? Nope. We can definitely have higher quality authentic Italian food for the prices we paid at La Piazza Dario for their cafeteria quality dinner entrees appetizers were very good.

  January 4, 2019, 11:28 pm

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