March 17, 2021 - This was our first visit to Allegro La Verne and we were quite impressed and pleasantly surprised at this restaurant's unusual food quality and well prepared, delicious dishes. For our appetizers, we ordered fried calamari and a caprese salad, and both...
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March 17, 2021 - This was our first visit to Allegro La Verne and we were quite impressed and pleasantly surprised at this restaurant's unusual food quality and well prepared, delicious dishes. For our appetizers, we ordered fried calamari and a caprese salad, and both were wonderfully prepared. For our entrees, my husband ordered a seafood pasta dish, which was excellent, my mother ordered the stuffed artichoke appetizer, which was a meal in itself and excellent as well. I ordered the spare rib dish, which was just OK, as the spare rib was a little tough. Overall, the food preparation and quality was exceptional, excluding the spare rib and the 'spumoni' ice cream, which surprisingly did not remotely resemble the taste and texture of this classic Italian ice cream. Our dinning experience at Allegro La Verne would have been outstanding, but regrettably, the service that night was poor. Even though there were many hostesses available and only a few patrons to serve at the time, we had to remind our waitress to bring items we had requested, such as the wine, salt, etc . At one point, I also had to get up to find someone to remove the empty appetizer plates from our crowded table. All things considered, the excellent food preparation, with its superior quality and taste merit that we visit this restaurant again. After all, it's possible that the poor service that night may have been an isolated event. Hopefully, next time we'll have good reasons to give them five stars instead.