Michaelangelo's (Reported Closed)

Doesn't Recommend

indyfood

Joined 5 years ago

Unimpressive. I've been here twice now and will probably not go back for a third trip. The menu is very standard offering pretty much the same stuff you see on most Italian menus with nothing really sticking out as special or out of the ordinary. That's ok though since I love Italian including all the standards. The servers I've had were ok, nice enough but not anything to write home about. Unfortunately it was the food that let me down. I can usually forgive poor service since that will vary depending on who waits on you, but when I get unimpressive food more than once I won't typically go back. the main problem with the food is that it just doesn't have any flavor. Someone needs to tell the chef to stop being afraid of using salt when he cooks. This stuff had about as much flavor as hospital food. From the bland meatballs to the marinara and the plain-as-can-be chicken it was disappointing. Even the alfredo sauce which is usually pretty universally good at Italian places tasted like milk with parmesan cheese sprinkled in it. Most stuff there comes with salad and breadsticks. The breadsticks were once more plain and could have used some butter or garlic or something, but the one bright spot is their salad. If you've eaten at Olive Garden, their salad is similar to that. Everything else that I tried though was far inferior to Olive Garden, which I don't even consider to be particularly good.