Sabatino's Italian Restaurant

11/20/11

STILL CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED!

by gteada1 at Citysearch

Went out to Sabatino's to celebrate girlfriends birthday. We were rushed to our seats and greeted with a scary looking waitress whose opening line was "do you want anything other than water?" Before I could even process this further, she was gone. Upon her return, we were pressured into our order, where our first choice had better be our only choice. never got her name, not did she ever offer appetizers, instead bread was just thrown on the table. She smelled of smoke. When one of the people in our group took her time ordering and asked a question, the waitress rolled her eyes because we were on "her" time. At this time my girlfriend and her friend went to the restroom. Not even 5 minutes later our food was out - leaving us astonished - the girls were not even back yet. The food was not hot, just luke warm at best - like microwaved Chef BoyArdee minute meals - and tasted jusst the same. Portions were ridiculously small for the over inflated prices. She did bring out a piece of cake for my girlfriend with a slick leave the check move. Again, taking away our option for everyone else to have dessert or extra drinks; not that we would have wanted them anyway. This has to be the worst experience I have ever had at a restaurant of any kind. I've waited longer at a Checker's drive- thru and got better food and service! It's a shame this rating makes me give them a star at all. Don't EVER eat here!

07/03/11

The Worst Restaurant ever!!!! This place is disgusting!!

by Casawi410 at Citysearch

This is my experience with Sabatinos, I went out with my wife last night to the harbor then we decided to get a bite. We walked down to little italy and we picked Sabatinos. It was a Saturday at 09:30pm!! We imagined the place would be packed come on it's a Saturday. Actually the place was deserted!! there were like 2 couples inside! We were seated right away. Our waitress was not smiling, she didn't introduce herself, was not smiling at all, wearing dirty clothes and looked very frustrated. We asked for few minutes because we were not ready to order yet so she gave us a mean look. She came back and asked her for their specials for the night (she was supposed to let us know when we were seated), she didn't know about their special!! she had to go back to the kitchen and ask. I asked her about their best seller she didn't know either, she said she's not into seafood. This waitress was not smiling at all!!!! Finally I picked Mussels w/ spaghetti dish & my wife ordered their combination of seafood as appetizer. We got our order after 5 min!! can you believe it?? after 5 mins our food was coming!! My mussels were small like peas!! I have never eaten such small shrunk mussels!! I grew up on the beach and I grew up eating seafood. The pasta was not fully cooked!!! it was not tender at all!! the sauce was watery!! It feels I was eating noodle soup not a mussels dish!! So I tasted it and it was awful, I could not eat it!! I sent it back and ordered same as my wife!! The waitress was not happy when I told her this is not a good dish!! she looked at me weird again. My wife didn't want to start eating until I get my plate too. Anyway, I got their seafood combination of fried calamari, couple shrimps topped w/ melted mozzarella, and couple stuffed clams in shells. The calamari was so tiny not fresh at all!! It's frozen mini calamari maybe was sitting in freezer for 4 months!! it was extremely chewy, greasy, and I felt I was getting sick!! The garlic bread was something else, it was cold maybe left over from 3 days! it was not fresh bread!! I know I wrote too much but I'm so frustrated!! We spent $50 for garbage food!! This is not an italina restaurant!! the place stinks, broken shaky chairs! their food was the worst food I ever had and this was my worst dinning experience. I would not recommend this place for anyone! you will be disgusted if you go there! please save your bucks and always ask friends or read reviews before you try a new restaurant. I will never ever go back there. As soon as we walked out we were wondering how in the hell this place still running ?? I started getting doubts about the kitchen staff if they were clean or not because the place is not!! I never wrote any reviews online but I subscribed today and did it because I want to let other people know about this place.

06/03/11

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01/14/11

Sabatino's

by CSMobileUser2 at Citysearch

Amazing food and service. I have been to many little Italy's in Boston, Providence and have never tasting such authetic food. I thought I was having lunch at my grandmothers house. I highly recommend this restaurant if your'e new to the area and want a great meal!

12/29/10

Great Dinner

by lmorekas at Citysearch

I had an awesome meal here with my family on Christmas Eve. We were greeted kindly at the front door, our server was really nice and our food was delicious. I had a veal dinner and my husband had pasta. We both really enjoyed our meals and so did my parents and our children. We'll be back!