Fiore II Restaurant — Restaurant in Middletown

I first want to acknowledge the excellent work of Zana our waitress.... she paid attention when we needed it and was always smiling and friendly.... a credit to Fiore’s. The food taste was excellent as well, we were served some garlic knots that were dressed with parmigiana. They were soft and baked perfectly. We had the fried mozzarella as an appetizer they were perfectly cooked, I found the breading to be a bit bland and it lacked the slight crunch I like on this appetizer, but overall it was good. I had the Veil Parmigiana as my main coarse.... my only two criticism would be the sparse plating of pasta and the plate presentation.... the veil was kind of thrown over a sparse nesting of pappardelle noodles with an over abundance is sauce with no thought to visual presentation. I would suggest doubling up on the pasta as it was a very small serving.... you can’t really criticize the amount of sauce as everyone’s taste is different, as to visual presentation... that’s up to the chef I suppose. I was offered what appeared to be store bought grated parmigiana cheese..... I did not have this added as I was concerned that it would detract from my meal..... I also had a salad with the cracked pepper corn dressing, the dressing was wonderful I would only suggest revisiting the greens used in the salad, as I mine had a lack of crunch.... not because of freshness, but because of the greens selected. I apologize if this was...

Fiore was one of our favorite places. Due to Covid however, havent been there for awhile. Dont know if it was language barrier or new staff but it was fumble, bumble service. We were there with 2 other friends we hadn't seen in awhile...were looking forward to a good time. The waitress didnt know what Chianti was ... had to ask if bartender they had it. I asked for vodka tonic. She asked me 3 times what it was... I got something else. Which I didnt like ...afraid to try again.I didnt bother to change it. One person asked for his dinner to come with linguini. Got angel hair instead. Went to change it ..came back with same thing. Kept it ..didnt want to raise more fuss. Aye yi yi. After dinner, we werent in any hurry but we were wanting some coffee and dessert. After 10 minutes or so finally asked another waitress if we could get some coffee. We all got our coffee, one person didnt get his dessert. Had to ask again. As I said, this was one of our favorite places ...maybe just one bad night. Will try again, later, maybe ...give time for them to get back up to speed. At $200 + ...you expect a little better service. Actually, a few more things occurred but this was the major problems. Bev Cappello...

I ordered Mother’s Day dinner tonight and couldn’t wait to have the chicken Picatta which I haven’t had for years and remembered it being the best with the most amazing white wine sauce and capers. The knots were also the best. Tonight I got the driest chicken with 3 little capers and NO white wine Sauce at all along with brown spoiled broccoli! I called to complain and the restaurant made the dish over the same exact way with absolutely no flavor at all!!! It was nasty!!!! My daughter was upset that I called to complain and a half hour later she was in the bathroom vomiting like crazy and wanting to go to the hospital in severe pain. She said she got food poisoning and crying and apologizing to me for calling the restaurant to complain. The chicken dish I ordered used to be one of my favorite dishes ever and I ended up throwing them in the garbage and will spend my Mother’s Day without dinner and awake all night taking care of my daughter who got very sick from their nasty food!!!! Never Ever again will I order from them or recommend...