Good food, lot of effort, Avoid the Romano.
The pasta being fresh gluten & effort in the sauces is amazing. The Romano could be DPO authentic ish, but that's not a complex flavor, it hits the "Tastes like poison" palette top to bottom. 10 minutes after I was done eating it, the poison taste lingered.
Ruined an otherwise stellar dish, first time I've disappointed my mom & returned a full plate in a long time.
Ordered two items without it & again, cost to quality can't be beat.
We have probably eaten here at least 20 times. It is consistently good. I've never had a bad meal here. I have celiac disease and must eat gluten free. I am sensitive to cross-contamination. I have asked the server to alert the kitchen every time I ate there. I have never gotten sick. That alone is amazing. I can't claim that for any other restaurant.
This is my preferred HyVee as they tend to have more options for vegan foods and specialty products. My find on this visit was Pamela's Graham Crackers as I was making a gluten free dish for family. It saved me the hassle of making them from scratch! Store has a nice selection of everything.
I really wanted it to be good and the best part of our visit was our waitress but the whole visit fell short, sadly. When we arrived, it seemed busy as a few large groups were finishing up so we waited a short while to be seated.
When we did get seated, our waitress came over and took our drink order. About 5 minutes later, another waitress came to take our drink order. Confused, we let her know we had already ordered and she left as the other gal came back with waters. Our waitress answered a few questions about the menu, made small talk, and was a delight to talk with.
When our food was delivered, my husband saw that his meal was not what he had ordered. When our waitress came back to check in on us, she apologized for the mix up and took his burger back to the kitchen.
I shared my burger with my husband and we both found the gluten free bun to be incredibly tough and wasn't able to be eaten. I couldn't really even tell you what it tasted like because I had a hard time chewing it. Unfortunate as we paid extra for the gf bun. Husband got his burger shortly after and that and he said the corrected food was fine.
A different waiter dropped off our check. My husband told me not to sign the slip since the check has the wrong order on the slip. We didn't order wings, my drink wasn't listed, and there was something else on there I don't recall that we hadn't ordered. Another waitress took our slip to the manager and she came over to correct the slip with a refund of 20 cents in cash. I told her we hadn't signed the slip for my card so she ran to go find the other slip which we waited for. There was a lot of waiting in our visit.
The visit wasn't ruined because there were good points and the staff was very nice to us but overall, there were a good number of flubs that if there were only one, could have been overlooked but built up over the whole meal.
