DawnMarie D.
Yelp
It pains me to write this but so very disappointed with our visit yesterday. Grew up going to Leo's and food, portions & pricing were always great. I totally understand prices need to go up, and we have no problem paying for something that we like and is made well, but no refills on fountain drinks (were not told this before & never knew this!) and the second refill of soda was a smaller glass??
My spinach ravioli (all time simple but delicious) were overcooked. My hubby had the veal, which wherever we go he compares to Leo's forktender cut veal, well this veal was not even thin/pounded??
VERY disappointing! My girlfriend had eggplant and asked for angel hair instead of the linguine, well angel hair came out in a separate bowl, it looked lost in the big size bowl, and her eggplant that was on the plate was in a square shape.... Since when is eggplant square??
Her husband had the rigatoni and short rib, it looked good. He said it was good. They gave him two huge pieces of the short rib which he said they probably could've put one and it would've been more than enough. For appetizers we had the tomato and mozzarella, the balsamic had a weird taste to it. We had the hot anti pasta platter, it was ok - (the eggplant rollatini was good) and 2 bar pies, which were as always amazingly delicious!
I know it's a different clientele than it's been and they have to go with the times but it just didn't feel like the Leo's we knew and loved.
Seems more focused on the people at the bar buying drinks than the people having the food that they once really loved. And I get money plays a huge factor, especially in this economy right now, but as much as they're focused on the bar, they should focus on how the food is coming out and being presented because it wasn't good. And maybe the newer crowd don't mind it, but us old Leo's fans, well we do.
We didn't say anything and we didn't return anything as we just drove two hours from down the shore and were headed to the feast and our stop before is always to eat at Leo's and they were getting crowded. We bragged to our friends how great Leo's was and how delicious the food was and the old Hoboken atmosphere, sadly it wasn't.