Venezia L I Restaurant II

One of my favorite Italian restaurants. we have shared a contract of spaghetti and meatballs. also share a caesar salate. both were enough for two people. if they want to garlic bread, they need to separate but it is worth service excellent, handicap accessible. park on the back of walgreens. back. served with just a little bit soak, so they can order extra if not enough. remember brocados icebox next block.

The food at Venezia's never disappoints. The service was a little slow. Waited 20 minutes before we got a menu. We weren't in a hurry but we were bringing food back to someone at home. I had the Supreme with chicken. The chicken is topped with shrimp and crawfish. The dill cream sauce is to die for. You get a side of pasta and you can pick the sauce. I recommend the Alfredo because I think it would go best with the dill cream.

It was just okay. Nothing to brag about. Price is decent. I had the Pontchatrain veal. Crab meat was tasteless. Veal tasted weird. It felt Syscoish. Staff not diverse. Management and guests moving about with no mask. No one asked for vaxx card. Perhaps I should have tried spaghetti and meatballs which is what my friend had. I felt hungry afterwards. And garlic bread was barely toasted. But I think that's a New Orleans thing. The servers were attentive, but a bit frazzled. The place was full, but well staffed so I don't know where they kept running too or why. But whatever.

First, the place looked dirty. Secondly, the waiter’s shirt was stained and dirty. Third, my daughter in law did not like her dinner and they offered nothing and didn’t credit the bill. The eggplant parmigiana was soppy like baby food and tasteless. The pizza was pools of grease. Not one of us (children included) could not get past a few forkfuls. Veal Parm, tasteless. I could go on but…. (There were 6 of us) The Caesar Salad was iceberg lettuce and not a true Caesar salad. We paid the bill and left a tip but we will NEVER return. I’m Italian, my son and daughter in law ate Italian and that was not Italian food.

I've lived in New Orleans my entire life. It's been years since I ate here and I can't believe how much the place has diminished in quality and service. It was a Sunday night and albeit they were slammed. We waited over 30 minutes to be seated. They seated our family in this tiny dark room in the back, near tables where people were drinking heavily. After 20 minutes after no one even approaching our table, my husband asked the man who seated us if we had a server. About 5 minutes later some guy came up and asked if we wanted drinks. 10 minutes later he brought our drinks and that's it. Another 20 minutes went by. We were there to celebrate my son's birthday and he was saying how he felt we have been forgotten about. Sad. I got up and approached the same person who seated us and explained to him how no one had greeted us, asked us about the menu, it was dark, we were there to celebrate and found the atmosphere depressing instead because of the lack of attention we are receiving. He apologized and another 10 minutes later the same person that took our drink order came up to me and asked if I was depressed!! Are you kidding me?? I told him I was most certainly not depressed but we were not experiencing any sort of a restaurant experience here. We told him we wanted food and he said okay. He took our order. He didn't talk to us, bring us bread or anything else. We watched as all the other tables were served dishes after dishes and their servers spoke with them and laughed. 45 minutes later our drinks were empty and no one had bothered to ask if we wanted a refill, the bartender at Gilbert came up and offered us complimentary classes of wine trying to remedy what was already the worst dining experience we've ever had. If it was not for him, we would have completely walked out on the restaurant. He was kind, friendly and clearly trying to do as much as he could to help. It was over an hour before we got our food and it was just okay. The veal Pontchartrain that I ordered literally had three unseasoned shrimp on top, no crab meat no artichoke, nothing like the pictures from previous guests. My daughter's meatballs and spaghetti was bland. And they informed my husband that they had no Alfredo sauces and no cream sauces even while we saw many people being served them. He ended up ordering the seafood stuffed mushrooms which had no seafood and tasted like they were stuffed with mere breadcrumbs. Not good. Another family behind us was equally as mortified at the service and the profanity spewing table next to us with a woman so loud, drunk and heartless that she openly ridiculed us and the other family for being astonished at how many times she said the f word with our teenage children. The tall stocky, female server of that table had joined in the ridicule when she would go to bring them their food/drinks making the atmosphere even more uncomfortable. How rude and insensitive. Unfortunately this will be our last time at this restaurant.