Deluca's Italian Restaurant — Restaurant in New York

A party of 3 on a Saturday night no reservation needed. Decided to dine outdoor. They had a huge tent setup in the back which was great. No one’s wearing any masks though. As in people that work there and customers. We were the only party there had our masks on until we were ready for the food.

As for the food - mediocre at best.

First, the shrimp pasta($38), the sauce was too sour and we didn’t know if they added too much lemon but sourness is the only thing we can taste out of the dish. The shrimp had good texture but lack seasoning. It’s almost like you’re eating boiled shrimp with some crumbs on it. The pasta was al dente but then again you would expect that out of any decent Italian restaurant so nothing to write home about.

On to the most expensive dish of the evening, the seafood ravioli($68). Good portion, lobster was huge! Again not much taste it’s almost like they combined two separate dishes, ravioli and a bunch of boiled seafood. Because that how I felt when I tried it. It’s like if you eat it with your eyes closed you’d think they are two completely separate dish. In some way the ravioli was better than the seafood. When you combine all of that experience with the price tag, is it worth it? not for us. Anyone can boil a bunch of seafood and then toss them in ravioli for less than that.

I had the truffle rigatoni($33). Honestly the best out of the main course. Again you can probably buy some truffle sauce, chop up some mushrooms and Italian sausages and that’ll taste as good and cost you less than half of what we paid for.

The appetizers aren’t even worth mentioning, we had fried calamari and zucchini flowers with ricotta and mozzarella. The calamari were lightly fried so it’s still kinda soft unless you find smaller pieces in which they were a bit more crunchy. The cheese in the flowers was runny so you end up with a mouth full of runny cheese in your mouth. I don’t what for you but that was not good for us.

Lastly the service was good but then again as Deluca’s advertise themselves or at least tried to look like a fine dinning restaurant, that’s the least you can expect.

The total for the night came out to be $183 before tips(we tipped 18%). Oh if you pay with credit they charge you a fee which essentially is a way to entice you to pay cash which is rather odd for a so called fine Italian restaurant.

I don’t usually dine on Staten Island though i live here. I find better quality of food in general for much much less in the city. If I want to pay that kind of money for Italian food, I’d go to mid town.

Yea it’s long, this review so the TLDR: the ice water...

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