Paisano's Restaurant Kingston — Restaurant in Kingston

If i could give the experience 0 stars I would. the bartender & drinks were fantastic but that does not make up for everything else. They decided to do social media promotions during my dining experience & it was beyond uncomfortable for myself, my partner, and other patrons. The social media person stopped the bartender from tending to patrons, and told people sitting to move if they didn’t want to be in the shot. I very much understand the importance of social media promotion as a photographer myself but you don’t interfere with diners experience. At the time I was at the bar waiting for the rest of my party. My drink was delicious, and the bartender was extremely attentive. I then sat at a table once my party arrived, and was met with a very attentive waiter. My party, and I placed our order and the two people I was with received their meal. The waiter informed me the kitchen messed up my noodle for the dish. Out comes a meal that is not what I ordered. My partner witnessed the social media person taking pictures of the meal before it was brought to the table. It appeared to be chicken marsala despite me ordering chicken alfredo. There was dried old noodles on top (I suspect as a garnish?) It looked disgusting. I waited for my waiter to return to inform him the wrong meal was sent out. So for the 3rd time the meal I ordered arrived, the party I was with had already finished their meal. The meal I received was inedible. It tasted like a frozen microwave meal you get at the grocery store. My salad arrived following the arrival of the 2nd wrong meal (&before the 3rd technically correct meal) It included brown lettuce. My partner ordered the short rib sandwich after watching it come out, and was interested. It did not come with the jalapeño pimento cheese or steak fries. Since he ate it, they did not comp it despite it not being what was listed on the menu or the same as the meal he watched come out 10 minutes prior. I requested to speak to the manager who “stepped out” where a waitress took over & offered her apologies, and comped the meal I did not eat. I still ended up paying for 2 drinks, and the meal of my party while I had no dinner myself. I left my information, and am currently waiting for the manager to reach out. I have zero intentions of ever returning, and hope the very kind waitstaff find a more professional place to work. This truly was the worst dining experience of my life. A week later no call from a manager. Beyond disappointed with this...

Update: I thought I'd give it another whirl today and ordered 2 meals through Door Dash.

I had their shrimp scampi once before which required my doctoring it to give that bland dish some flavor. Today was a completely different experience. It was probably the best I ever had and packed with flavor!. 4 Jumbo shrimp with a very light coating over a bed of linguini in a sauce filled with cherry tomatoes, scallions, herbs and seasonings. Delicious! The other dish ordered was their steak tips. I wasn't a fan. The cut of beef was not your typical choice beef. It had a very bland but very fatty flavor to it. It was cooked right and tender, but the flavor and texture were both odd. It came with broccoli and a baked potato, both fresh and cooked perfectly. The bottom line is they've shown improvement since they first opened but I have to give them one 👍 and one 👎.

Nice ambiance and friendly staff. However, my meals weren't very good. I ordered the roast beef dinner special and was "told" it would be medium rare. It was well done with no pink whatsoever! It was sliced very thin and very tender but the edges were all fatty. The au jus was terribly salty! The carrots and green beans were undercooked but the mashed potatoes were good. I only ate a little of my meal and tossed the rest due to it being so salty.

I also got the spaghetti and meatballs. The meatballs had too much filler for my taste and the sauce was just okay if you like a sweeter sauce. I asked if they used thin spaghetti and was told, " yes". It was not even close. Seems the staff is unfamiliar with the menu and just tells you what they think you want to hear for the sale. Bad business practice!

The alpine pistachio cake was phenomenal and my new favorite dessert!

Not sure if I'd go back again anytime soon. They probably need to get the kinks out seeing as they haven't been open...

First of the host was a wonderful young man! We were a party of four, not really busy Sunday evening. The brushette was fantastic. Ordered steak tips, apricot chicken with shrimp(2 to be exact), saltimbocca chicken, and chicken marsala. Meals were all good. The apricot dish used chicken tenders, which had several tendons left inside, making them difficult to enjoy, but all other meals were good. It is very nice inside but might be nice to dim the lights after 6ish, it was extremely bright! Specialty drinks were good, white cosmo and a bourbon winter drink. Dessert, hmm. Apple crisp shaped like a crab cake, stone cold. If only it had a zap in the oven to actually warm and crisp it, it would have been great. It felt like it had some kind of tiny nuts in it, but the waitress said it didn't. However, due to a nut allergy, one of us ate just the ice cream. We can be difficult, between the 4 of us, one has egg and oat allergy, 2 others with nut allergies and me the lone allergy free person. The waitress had to keep checking on ingredients for us, but she never seemed bothered. One concern, a member of our party got up to use the rest room and fell down, he almost took out the Valentines day Christmas tree, as well as a couple folks at the table beside us. Two of the wait staff saw it happen but remained at the hostess station, never once checking on our fallen friend. We got him up, and he was embarrassed, but ok, he falls sometimes due to a medical condition. I do think they could have just checked that he was alright. We...