La Luce - side

I'm so pissed right now, I made reservations 2 weeks ago for June 18,2016 for 8:00 pm. My party and I get to the restaurant and there closed. This was for my boyfriend for Father's Day, where I was gonna propose to him. I kept calling them no answer mailbox full can't leave a message. My heart is broken because I wanted this to be the best night ever.

Food was fine by me but the service was atrocious. I really don't care for a waiter that takes 15 minutes to run my cards is drinking il alcohol in public view, and shouts to my party to ask who had what.

Best food in town. Old fashion style service and scenery. Jose and skippy the waiters are great. 5 star restaurant

Very elegant and has many varieties of pasta and seafood

It was a Tuesday. The atmosphere was nice but we weren 't there to eat the woodwork (a choice I came to regret . We arrived before the dinner crowd (about 5:30 p.m. . You 're not going to make it from your car to the door without hearing the gentle but deafening clickity-clack of the El passing overhead. In truth, it 's barely heard inside the restaurant and it adds a bit to the overall 1920 's ambiance. Not true of the television, which was being enjoyed by the waiters when we arrived. They were, apparently, not willing to miss a re-run of The Big Bang Theory. It 's a terrific show, I 'm sure, but a little more focus on the job might be appreciated by the owner. Still, their pastime did not affect their service, which was not bad. We came for lunch a few weeks back and found that they are closed until 3:00 despite YELP 's indicating they were open for lunch (the folks at La Luce should really give a yelp to Yelp and update their online information . We had walked halfway through the restaurant before someone noticed and offered us a table. They didn 't seem to care where we sat and I later regretted not choosing the bistro down the road. There were only two other tables being used at the time so the waiter 's attention skills were not exactly being challenged. For his part, he was a friendly fellow whose accent was as charming as his demeanor. He helped me with my wine selection by not helping me with my wine selection, which I appreciated. I chose the house sangria which was a pleasant surprise. We enjoyed the three pieces of bread that were brought to the table. Had I known that that was all we were allowed I might have put up a bit of a fight for the last piece. Given the fact that the bread wasn 't warm and the parmesan wasn 't fresh, I didn 't think it was worth the effort. I ordered the Seafood and Linguine. I remember because there were sea shells sitting on my plate when it arrived and since that was what I had ordered, I 'm going with that. The first thing that struck me was the fact that the clams were the size of a dime. Literally. THE SIZE OF A DIME. I didn 't know Mother Nature made clams that small. I actually felt sorry for the little guys, having been caught so young in life. I think I lost more calories digging them out of their shell than I gained eating them. The chef should have been embarrassed to serve them. I 've seen bigger bait on the end of a toddlers fishing pole. We 're talking small. Sauce is important to me. It will make or break a dish. This dish was broken. It wasn 't really bad but it wasn 't really good. For $30 I 'm not expecting great but I am expecting something more than I can get out of a can from an cheap Italian sauce factory. Those factory workers did not earn their pay the day they made this sauce, I can tell you. It was very disappointing. If the meal cost them $3.00 their buyer should be fired. I 'm all for earning a profit but, jezz, have a little value in there for the customer, will ya. The silverware doesn 't have to match but this meal would have been more at home with plastic forks and spoons. Our water glasses were never empty and the server never spilled a drop (a pet peeve of mine . I did, however, see the bottom of my wine glass long before I finished my meal. I was surprised that no one sought to fill THAT glass or offer us a nice dessert (preferably from the restaurant next door . Although I 'm a diabetic, I might have risked either or both in an effort to forget the entrée '. There are too many choices for your dining dollars in Chicago. La Luce should not be one of them. Yes, the surroundings are somewhat romantic and nostalgic. But my search for a good Italian restaurant ended at La Luce. I 'm switching to Mexican for a while.