202 Italian Bistro - Lincoln Park

Stop. This restaurant used to be very good svc, food, atmosphere. All that's left is the atmosphere. Greed has taken over in this restaurant: mgt allowed walk in front of those with reservations (like us and then you need to wait for AN HOUR to get only your appetizers!! Unacceptable. This happened 6 months ago; gave them a pass; but had the same results last night (Dec. 1. 2012. The owner had to be called twice to take our order, and when he finally arrived, it was uninteresting to say without eye contact, the evenings especially. Was more with his 2 parties of 12, the BTW all STILL was waiting for their most important entrees than we up and down. And they all sat before us. In addition, food runners brought twice food to our table for others. Young waiting staff were also inexperienced and disorganized and could hardly master the English language. Finally, it is unacceptable to wait an hour for a simple mozzarella/tomato salad and to tell you the bad staff, the kitchen organization and the front end that this facility has become. You can do better elsewhere in neighboring Wayne, Pequannock, etc.