The building for this restaurant is literally an hold house, with tables and chairs in almost every room. Maybe it's functional on most days, but when we went yesterday evening it felt loud and crowded with most of the tables filled at the front of the house.

The service was subpar. Our waitress never provided or asked us for refills on our drinks. We were seated near the host stand, where the host appeared to be not in a good mood after a party of nine (with kids) arrived shortly after us around 8pm.

My wife tried their chicken parm (over $20!) and thought it was borderline terrible. Generally for a chicken parm dish you put a good or decent looking chicken cutlet on a plate of spaghetti with some pasta sauce, topped off with melted cheese and maybe a few herbs. But this place gave her an overcooked (partially burnt) piece of chicken on top of a few spaghetti noodles that were loaded with chopped tomatoes, onions and garlic, but hardly any sauce. She wound up eating only 1/2 of the chicken itself, as the rest of the dish was unappealing.

If I could give this place a 2.5 I would, because I had their pizza last night and it wasn't bad (though there was no flavor with the crust). As a take-out pizza place this is probably a 4-star spot. But as a sit-down "Italian" restaurant, it deserves only 2 stars. Would not recommend to any locals or visitors in Mt. Dora.