It pains me to write this negative review. I will begin by pointing out that the restaurant was extremely busy this evening. That said…. the only positive was the bartender, Frankie, who was 100% on point and picking up the slack of the other bartender. We ordered the Caesar salad and Eggplant appetizer. Salad was B, more oily than creamy. Eggplant was also a B, mostly because the breading was overly saturated in oil. Sadly, this foretold the rest of the meal. My dining companion had a lemony shrimp dish. While the lemony sauce was delicious and pasta perfectly al dente putting breaded shrimp in a wet sauce caused the shrimp to disintegrate and become mushy and inedible. I ordered the veal parm with homemade gemelli pasta. Pasta was al dente, but the “bolognese” that covered the pasta and veal was a watery, flavorless meat sauce reminiscent of Chef Boyardee rather that one of the most renowned Italian chefs in NH. I am not one to complain often and it’s nearly unheard of that I send food back, but the first plate was inedible. Oil had so saturated the breading on the veal that it overwhelmed the other limited flavors. The owner even came over to apologize and explain why the dish came out the way it had - the pan wasn’t hot enough to sear the breading. I get it. It happens. What doesn’t usually happen is the second dish coming out in the same sorry state as the first dish - arguably worse. The breading was again saturated in oil and the watery meat sauce (not bolognese) and half-melted mozzarella completed the tri-fecta of making for an awful plate of food. Again, it pains me to have to write this review because I watched Chef Todesca on the Channel 9 noontime segment for years and promised myself one day I would dine there. To summarize, bartender Frankie was a solid A and largely the only bright spot of the evening. I refuse to give a grade to the rest of the experience because doing so would simply further embarrass this well regarded establishment. 😢