Just ate here tonight on a Valentine's date. Befor...

Just ate here tonight on a Valentine's date. Before I write this I wish to preface it with the understanding that I am from Chicago so my standards are much higher in quality...
Our opening olive oil sauce for the sliced bread was awful. I don't believe it was extra virgin olive oil or even virgin olive oil. It tasted like it was a third press batch. It lacked flavor even with heavy salting that I tried to add to it. There were already spices within it, but sadly to no avail. But it looked great.
Then came the meal... I had chicken parmesan with pasta. The pasta was angel hair, the chicken breast was ample, the cheese was melted and properly blackened and the entire plate looked marvelous... but then I took a bite!
The pasta and chicken were almost as flavorless as the olive oil. Which was consequently also used on the pasta.
My date had a clam pasta and she too expressed a lack of flavorful expression. But she never having experienced Italian foods from either Chi town or NYC I don't believe she really grasped the lack and totality of mediocrity this place was exuding.
Oh, they do get highest marks, on romantic settings, good menu selection, and superb culinary presentations but from a former northern who has eaten well, this doesn't come close for me to recommend it to anyone.
It was essentially over-priced hype. Because if it isn't good then at any price is too much.
I have literally ate better version of these same meals at low grade Chicago restaurants. No exaggeration! There were many hole in the wall joints in Chicago that served this for a third of the cost and 7x the flavor!
Don't get me wrong, the chicken breast was large and juicy. Nothing was over cooked or under done. And it all looked beautiful... it just completely fell short on taste which should be why anyone eats anywhere.