I was visiting Boulder for 3 weeks, and I had noth...

I was visiting Boulder for 3 weeks, and I had nothing but great meals at all the restaurants I visited. The dinner at Carelli's, however, was shockingly disappointing. Given the number of great reviews for this restaurant, I am guessing that they had an off night.

Since the menu featured chicken marsala and a variety of veal dishes, I asked the waitress if the chef would be willing to prepare veal marsala instead. She outright refused without checking with the kitchen, which I found a little odd. In the end my friend ordered chicken piccata, and I had the veal scallopini. The chicken was engulfed in a cream sauce like alfredo, instead of the tangy flavors of capers and lemon my friend was expecting. My dish had 3 small chewy pieces of veal on a bed of overcooked pasta. The sauce was depressingly bland, yet managed to stab my tongue with incoherent tastes of parsley and onions that strangely failed to agree. It was more like a poorly executed rendition of onion-gravy smothered porkchops that costed $23.

I wish you all better luck.