Antica Posta Tuscan Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in Atlanta

If there was an option for zero stars, then that would definitely define this establishment's accurate rating. A group of us decided to attend this place last night after seeing a 'Fabulous Thursdays" promotional flyer. We walked in and the place was completely empty, minus a small party downstairs, one upstairs, and 2 or 3 people at the bar. We thought, "Perfect, we'll get seated immediately!" This thought was far from accurate. The entire front staff immediate made us, feel extremely uncomfortable. The looks of disgust were very obvious. We all turned a blind eye and a few of us proceeded to walk to the bathroom, thinking we will be seated shortly after. Once again, that was not the case. After coming back to the front. I noticed talks amongst the staff and they proceeded to stare at us like we did not belong there. After waiting an additional 5 mins, we were told that we were not going to get seated due to how we were dressed. When asked questions, the manager only continued to repeat that they would not be seating us. His patrionizing demeanor made me cringe! We all dressed casual since the advertisement did not give us an impression that we needed to dress any different. Other customers also wore casual attire, therefore we did not feel out of place and or that we were in the wrong. We then all started to peacefully walk away and an employee then said in a very condesending tone, "Well for NEXT time, make sure to read the flyer correctly so that you can avoid this the NEXT time you all come". We received zero apologies! This by far has been the WORST experience that I've EVER encountered, since moving to Atlanta in 2009! For an establishment that seems to be "upscale", their service by far does NOT meet those expectations. I'm extremely careful when saying this, because people use this very loosely. However, there is no logical way to explain why my party of 8, all minorities, was never seated because of our casual attire, but people with fair skin and similar attire were! As we were walking to our cars, we ran into a party just like us and we made sure to forewarn them. We refuse to allow anyone to go through a similar experience, due to their skin color! Hence why I've made it a priority this early in the morning to write...

I'd give this place a high 4 rating if I could, and I definitely recommend it. Food was amazing and service was good. Price was very reasonable considering I essentially had a four course meal (bread, appetizer, meal, dessert AND two glasses of wine for less than $70 before tip).

For an appetizer I had prosciutto with buffalo milk mozzarella. Delicious.

For main course I had veal tortellini, also delicious but a disappointing portion size.

For dessert I had the parmigiano reggiano. I thought it was delicious, especially with the wine. Approach with caution though, it's not for everyone. Most people probably would not consider it a dessert in the traditional American sense.

Here are my two gripes that kept me from giving a 5 star

My main course portion size was disappointing, especially considering how delicious it was. I had the veal tortellini and it was fantastic, but it literally maybe had 15 individual tortellinis. My companion had the veal round and his portion size was fine. He also told me about when he took his wife here and she ordered a spaghetti meal and she had leftovers for two days, so perhaps my experience is not the normal or I just ordered the wrong thing.

The atmosphere while not "bad" is definitely strange. We arrived early and we were the first group sat upstairs overlooking the bar area down below. They were playing very loud rap music at first in the bar area that you can hear throughout the restaurant which I thought was strange considering my expectation going in was a upscale Italian restaurant classical Tuscany style. Don't get me wrong - it is that, however they definitely seemed to be catering to two different audiences; the "upstairs" crowd and the "bar" crowd. As the dinner service went on, the music seemed to change from rap to a much more enjoyable house type of music which I imagine they change as their crowd at the bar changes. While this experience did not necessarily bother me, I could imagine certain patrons would be off put by it.

Overall I would highly recommend trying Antica Posta out. I will be back, and I am already planning on ordering the...

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