Penne Pomodoro (Snider Plaza) — Restaurant in University Park

This place is amazing but a lot of the pictures and reviews are slightly off due to the recent renovation they had. The menu is new and the entire store has been remodeled. The service is excellent, 2 of the managers, Chaney and Lon, are friendly, attentive, and the place stays packed most of the week. I highly recommend the veal piccata, the chicken parm, paglia y fierno, all the pizzas, foccacia bread app, calamari, THE CAPPUCCINO PIE, and the cranberry vanilla spiced mule. I love Italian food obsessively, shamelessly, correctly, and passionately and this one ranks up there with Olivellas, Prego, Campisi's and Cane Rosso. So yeah, 10 out of 10 check it out. You won't be disappointed. Unless......(update: they let an inexperienced & immature 24 year old host try to manage and throw a hungover tantrum at the kitchen counter (SCREAMING FOR FOODRUNNERS WHILE CHASING THEM RIGHT PAST THE TABLES THAT ORDERED THE FOOD SHE HAS IN HAND (yes that is non-fiction and was witnessed by othes)and then screw up service by ordering employees to leave mid table, taking the now absent servers credit card tips and pocketing them, having a manager from a different store visit so our little girl boss spins a tale and has guest management termininate that server for fictional insubordination so she doesn't have to watch while she literally removes that servers livelihood with lies and zero previous disciplinary action via guest manager, all while GM on vacation. Btw YES I was the server, this was awhile back but was such destructive mismanagement that someone...

Casual Italian restaurant located in a busy but quaint little area. We were surprised by how much we liked the food! The atmosphere was very chill, but very busy with dine in guests and to-go orders. We definitely hit it at a good time. We started with the fried mozzarella triangles, very good but also filling, could only eat one. We also had the bruschetta, which was easily one of the best I've had in Texas! Absolutely delicious, light, full of flavor, with lightly toasted pieces of bread. For dinner I had spaghetti with a bolognese sauce, it was good, but not my favorite, the sauce seemed a bit heavy on the nutmeg, similar to the lasagne which was the choice of my husband. He liked it a lot, but again not my favorite. My son got the spicy vodka sauce pasta and hands down the best entree. We ended with coffee and a slice of tiramisu, delicious. If you like, there is a full bar too. ...

The restaurant itself is beautiful. However the presentation of my food was questionable. My appetizers (the Crispy Mozzarella and Calamari) look fantastic. I ordered 2 build your own pastas and they look fine with the exception of the lack of meat on them and the Alfredo sauce tastes like straight butter and oil. I ordered a side of truffle fries and I was given about a handful of fries. I also ordered the Beef Tenderloin Tagliata. I requested for it to be made medium with a double sub of truffle fries and the fries looked old, and the steak was a harsh well done and there only about 4 small chunks of meat in the container. Maybe it would've been better if i'd dined in with my family but this was definitely not worth the...