Nicholas Stamoulos Review of Ristorante Il Casale
Liked the ambiance even though I ve heard from fri...
Liked the ambiance even though I ve heard from friends and saw reviews it gets noisy. We went for early dinner it was not bad at all. Service was very good..waiter a tad pretentious but not uncommon for upscale restaurant. My wife loved the Aranchini, I thought it was OK a bit too dry. The pork meatballs phenomenal.. their sauce too sweet. The pesto ravioli the star of our meal...wow what a sauce. The blemish was the half too crunchy seafood risotto ...too subtlety flavored for my taste and not creamy enough. Oddly the bottom part was creamy maybe made in two batches? Anyway the greater disappointment was being told to expect salmon trout and crab legs and getting smoked salmon instead. The result bland risotto with a hit of starkly salted smoked salmon. Flavor not congruent at all. Server politely asked my opinion. To relay to Chef. They took it off the bill. My replacement sausage broccolini on homemade pasta was very good... pasta perfectly prepared subtle but harmonious flavorful sauce. Very good meal overall just expected better risotto from a place of its very good reputation.

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