Old Spaghetti

I was feeling like some garlic bread so we went to Old Spaghetti for dinner last night. It's pretty good value, I got the spaghetti with tomato cream tarragon mushroom pasta. Ian got the spaghetti with meat sauce.

Included was garlic bread, soup or salad and ice cream with coffee or tea, all for about $9-$11.

As usual, the bread was really good with really good garlic whipped butter. My minestrone was pretty decent, Ian's clam chowder was good.

The spumoni ice cream was also tasty. Basically, great value for decent italian.

The only problem here was the service. We went in and talked to the hostess and they said a 15-20 minute wait for a table and that we could go and order a drink/appetizer from the lounge and then they would paige us.

We didn't really want to, so we waited around in the lobby and we got in after 20 minutes. They were calling people about every 2 minutes.

But then, once we get in, there were ALOT of empty tables!!! Like 1/3 of a pretty large dining room. So not sure what's up with that????

I suspect a scheme to bolster the lounge drinks and revenue/person.

Anywho, I think it's pretty shady and was a bit upset by the whole thing.