Romeos — Restaurant in New York

Overall Review: This place has promise, but definitely has several kinks to work out if it plans to survive in Jackson Heights for long. The space is nice, the food 'okay', the service in need of improvement, and the prices very unbalanced.

Please see below for my review breakdown.

Food: 3 Star Portions are extremely small for the price on certain dishes, while okay on others. Ex. 3 piece of shrimp cocktail for the appetizer will run you a whopping $15, while an good sized steak dinner will run you $32. Taste quality varies by dish. Steak was very salty but a good size, fries tastes/looked like they came out of a cheap frozen isle bag, Alfredo was bland but otherwise good, etc

Alcohol: 3 Star Ordered Moscato (sweet/sparkling) and Merlot. Merlot glass was 1/2 full. Moscato was in a full flute glass. Both were as expected in taste, EXCEPT I ordered a second glass of the same Moscato and received a dry Moscato the waiter swore was the same kind....

Service: 2 Star Waited 15 minutes for a menu, and another 10-15 for order to be taken and bread basket to arrive. Waiters are more interested in chatting with one another and looking around at tables to clean/attend than at looking at the actual customers who want to flag them down for something. It felt almost silly how long I had to eye sever waiters to get ones attention.

Environment: 5 Star Lovely...

Let me start of by saying that we visited this restaurant twice and both times it was disappointing. The first time we went was during the pandemic when NY finally allowed indoor dining. The restaurant was busy but seemed organized. We were sat in the front of the restaurant where it was somewhat separate from the other diners which was fine. We didn't realize they would forget about us. We sat there for almost 20 before a waiter came over to ask if we had ordered? Already a red flag. After ordering drinks and appetizers it took another 45 min to get our food. We were extremely frustrated and hungry. The waiter didn't apologize for forgetting about us nor did he offer to discount anything. Although my husband enjoyed his meal mine was nothing out of the ordinary. We decided to go back last week to give it another shot in hopes it would be different. We made a reservation and arrived 5 minutes early. As soon as we walked in we waited for a host but no one appeared. The bar tender which was across from us asked very rudely if we had a reservation which I answered yes. He almost seemed annoyed we were there. He sat us at our table and walked away. He almost tripped on the way out and I realized he was drunk. Very unprofessional. The food is not great and the service is terrible. They also lack management. I would not recommend this...

What a disaster! Please change your Chef! (is he an owner and that's why he/she cooks?) Now I practically never have time to leave reviews but this has to be done.

Were here 2 weeks ago with my GF - and couldn't half finish what we ordered. Everything including Appetizer was overcooked. I ordered simple Gnocchi al Pesto pasta thinking one can't screw this up to myself. Boy I was wrong. It was mushi and overcooked! My GF had some clams and artichoke side dish both of which were extremely overcooked and uneatable. The only thing that was ok - however not for the price we paid was the wine... (though tried a couple of wines first that were awful)

Now i don't know who left these favorable reviews - but all you have to do is look in and ask how come this place is empty most of the time! I can't believe I had noticed it on friday night and chose...