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I think most of my comments have already been covered by Julie and Nate. I will add that I also liked the cooked carrots, it was something different. I traded my cucumber slices for Jeff's carrots so we each got a little extra of what we wanted on our salads. I will again bring up the portion control. I was sad to see my four little stuffed shells in a bowl of sauce when everyone else around me seemed to be swimming in an excess of food. They were good though. I think the thing about Del's that I enjoyed the most is the ability to cusomize your pasta. I like the option of mixing and matching noodles with different sauce. If nothing else it gives you reasons to go back and keep on trying. Jeff ordered the fettucini alfredo and said that the sauce was a little soupy, but overall not bad. I think Del's is a decent place to go that is a step above fast food, but not so fancy that you feel stupid slopping pasta sauce around. I'd definitely go here again.
Posted by Kim at November 2, 2005 10:49 PM
How would you compare your experience to the Olive Garden? Its a similiar, but chain, kind of restaurant to me. I think its a very similiar level of fancy, it isn't fast food, but it isn't something you need to be dressed up for. Olive Garden doens't have the level of choice though I think.
Posted by: Nate at November 3, 2005 11:25 AM
Are you asking Kim, or all of us? To borrow a bowling metaphor, strikes and gutters . . .
The very fact that Del's isn't a chain makes me more comfortable ordering food from there. It's made a long term commitment to that corner of Bloomfield.
In addition, though the food and atmosphere are just exactly, as you say, a step up from fast food but nothing fancy, they know how to make salad dressing and this gives me hope. Olive Garden does not, they serve you bottle-style dressing. The ability to make a house dressing is a good place to start, if you want to be a restaurant, or a good cook, or a healthy one . . .
The bread they serve is nasty - sticky white fluff - (but not as nasty as those sweet and oily breadsticks), which is another indicator of what kind of a place they are, but a more discouraging one. It's so dumb when there is better bread all over the neighborhood. Hmph.
Posted by: zp at November 3, 2005 12:06 PM