FoodMayhem

On Sat night, 10 of us gathered to celebrate Monica’s birthday (you may remember the cake I made) at Coppola’s East Coppola’s East. The restaurant doesn’t warrant a detailed post. It’s suffice to say that the food ranges from poor to mediocre. Monica, the birthday girl, complained about an over-dresssed salty salad, when she’s not really one to complain about food. James, sitting next to me, had a dry Chilean Sea Bass that tasted more like frozen cod. My Short Rib Ragu over Pappardelle was really the best of the bunch, a safety dish you can’t really mess up, yet it was still too oily, and the pasta that could have been good was mostly stuck together. Oddly, the portion sizes were inconsistent, some dishes looked like an average entree while some looked like a family style platter. The prices span quite a distance too, between $16-$32 for entrees (the prices on their website are not current) with no correlation to size of the dish. The staff was pretty good, and few places can seat groups of 10 or more these days, but it didn’t seem like any one of us was ever going back.