Graziella’s Italian Restaurant Review

I’ve made it a point to try delivery places here and there - mostly because there’s a fair amount of time where I’m just too lazy or for some other reason just can’t be bothered to head out the door on a given day. Today was one of those days.  

Graziella’s Italian Restaurant was the beneficiary of my lethargy today. At some point while watching T.V. Julie and I decided pasta would make for an awesome dinner. I concurred, so we headed on over to our local internetery and we decided to browse through Grub Hub to find a place that would accept online orders. The top result was Graziellas, which Julie had tried before and wasn’t all that impressed with - but since I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT FOOD EVER - I wound up, after a brief search for alternative locations, deciding “eh, we can go to Graziellas, it can’t be too bad.” So I ordered.

They told me it would take an hour. It took 25 minutes. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing - in retrospect, but at the moment I was like “well, this place can’t be all bad” when the food arrived. So we set up the table and got down to consuming our food. We opened the free bread first - I was half expecting cheap old garlic bread (I haven’t seen the place but I assumed it was a dinky hole in the wall place) we wound up; however, finding ourselves with Ciabatta bread. It was still warm, crisp crust and chewy, but not really the best Ciabatta I’ve had. Time to investigate further. I opened the Minestrone. Thick cut vegetables mixed with smaller rough cuts - Not really the best thing, some of the potatoes were underdone, but it had a decent flavor and I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt still. (Because, as anyone who knows me can attest - I’m the nicest guy ever and also pretty awesome at being modest) 

We then cracked into the main course. Sausage and Broccoli Rabe Orecchiette in a Tomato Sauce and Shrimp Scampi over Spaghetti. Shrimp scampi is an absurdly easy thing to make - garlic, butter, white wine, lemon, and parsley. Somehow, Graziella’s managed to make it overly sweet and under-sauced at the same time. Adding to the problem with the Scampi, the shrimp was overcooked - now I can probably only blame myself for that (who honestly expects delivery shrimp to be tender and cooked perfectly after hitching a ride on a bike for ten minutes - me, that’s who!) So, I was disappointed. The Orecchiette was better, except the pasta was a bit soggy. The flavor profile was decent - it’s hard to mess up sausage and tomato - but it wasn’t exactly life altering. It wasn’t great, but I mean I didn’t mind sitting there and eating it - it’s pasta, damnit! Still, I wouldn’t exactly recommend anyone actually go there.

So there. That’s my review of Graziella’s Italian Restaurant.