Frown: The tab was over $160 before taxes and tip.
Ticked: The food service provider of the restaurant is Roma, which provides okay, but really cheap ingredients. I know overhead is a bitch, but with economies of scale I bet our meals (wine aside) cost less than three dollars a piece. Noodles, cheese, red sauce, and eggplant shouldn't cost $30.
Now I don't complain about this to anyone but you guys, and I'm not "that guy" who always has to point out how expensive a meal out is, but since I owned a catering company I can tell when I'm getting ripped off. I did purchase a bottle of Chianti (heard it goes great with liver) that was about $40, but sometimes I feel insulted by some of the high prices at 2 star restaurants. I'd be more than happy to pay $100 for an incredible meal, but paying over $20 for a mediocre one gets my goat.
On top of that, the menu is all about "these recipes were handed down to me from my Grandmother, blah blah blah". The cooks open a bag, throw the shit in an oven or boiling water, and...ding! It's done. The restaurant has no authentic recipes, no actual chefs, but they do have really cute waitresses that wear really low cut v-neck shirts, and they bend over a lot (the waitresses, not the shirts
). I know I'm ranting, but I think we would all agree nobody likes that feeling of "hey, I just got ripped off".
*"My Pregnant Sister" sounds like a working movie title.
