I am going back and reading these reviews and I'm seriously questioning if we are all talking about the same place. We tried Venditori's while visiting my daughter after we attempted the Mason Jar and it was closed. Venditori's had 4.5 stars out of over 900 reviews. It MUST be great! BOY WERE WE DISAPPOINTED.

The restaurant upon entering looked nice. We were seated right away and the options on the menu sounded delicious!

We ordered out drinks and an appitizer (A sampler with fried mozzarella sticks and fried zucchini). The waiter said he would be right back with bread and salad. (Famous bread and salad! It is posted everywhere)

He came back with our drinks and two bowls of these tiny little rolls, so cute! Until he put them down and the rolls were sitting in a quarter inch of oil...not even real butter but the butter like cooking oil (like they use at Little Ceasar's) and topped with minced garlic. This could have been possibly delicious if it had been real butter. Then he sat down the salad...which looked really nice until you realize it is just drowning in vinager and oil. Poor veggies...they were dying. It was mostly vinager and seriously was just pooled in the bottom of this bowl.

He also sat down our appitizer at the same time.....a big bowl of what I can assume was supposed to be maranara sauce, but was really just diced tomatoes with onion and garlic. No flavor at all. I took what I thought was mozzarella and bit into a hunk of zucchini...which I love zucchini but this was bad...no flavor to the breading and like the hardest zucchini ever. Next I tried the mozzarella...but this was sad too. No taste at all, it wasn't hot and gooey cheese just luke warm saddness....

So we waited on our main courses...We ordered the chicken parm, lasagna and Angel Hair Dalvina. We had high hopes for these!

The amount of food that came with the Dalvina was enormous! But the noodles were over cooked and the sauce was watered down. Which was disappointing because the dish itself looked yummy. The chicken parm was warm and the chicken was ok...not terrible but again the side of spaghetti was over cooked and the sauce was flavorless. I asked for parmesan cheese and the waiter brought what we call shakey cheese. Not fresh parm like you would expect at a classier joint than Fazolli's. But that's fine we like shakey cheese I was just a little shocked. My husband's lasagna was very hot and looked incredible but he said "eh, it's alright." So maybe that's a win...

But the bill came and after I was able to just eat half my chicken parm and my daughter had three bites and decided to take it home to doctor it up herself and add some protein in hopes of making it better I was appalled that this tasteless dinner cost us $79. (That included the $14 tip even though the service was SLOW as Christmas and had to ask for more drinks after we depleated what he brought to the table before our food)

All this to say...I could not understand why there were people waiting to be seated and why the reviews are so high. This place is sad...the food made me sad....People of Auburn branch out...there is better Italian food out there. Don't let this place fool you into complacency. Do better Sellers...Auburn deserves better