text: The company was stellar And after hours and minutes of meh everything else I was still smiling So kudos to my fellow diners In hindsight I am surprised we were only there for hours and minutes because it felt much longer What is tough about the layout of Matteos is that there is NOwhere to go if your table is not ready There is no real host stand to speak of and the rest of the restaurant is full of tables and a lovely bar with little room for anything or anyone else When the weather outside is frightful as it was this evening you are screwed and have to spend however many minutes dodging servers and other patrons as you wait But moving on nnWe were seated by a friendly hostess who opened with a list of accolades that Matteos had recently received An odd opening in my opinion but after her illustrious description I figured we were in for a real treat A few minutes later our server arrived to take our drink orders A few more minutes later she arrived with waters A few more minutes later she returned with wine Lots of minutes involved here Then we ordered Our visit was during Restaurant Week and I have taken that under careful consideration I promise The course menu looked delightful and from it I selected Mussels Marinara House Salad and Cod As we waited the restaurant filled quickly and the singular aisle became congested since there was simply nowhere to stand Some people left some stayed That is neither here nor there nnWe remained focused on anxiously awaiting our bread which arrived several minutes later It was clearly right out of the oven so the wait for that was understandable Many many minutes later we received our first course The mussels straight outta the Morgantown river if there is such a river I adore mussels and I am used to their texture taste etc These were BAD So fishy due to the lack of quality sauce which was a can of tomato pastesaucewhatever if I were to guess Another many minutes later we received our second course a passable house salad Nothing fancy nothing bad no complaints here Our third course arrived sometime after the place mostly cleared out and both myself and one of my companions who ordered the same dish cod found it inedible Such a shame to such a brave fish Those cod they just have Long John Silvers written all overthem But when done right they can be the king of fish Not this cod This cod obviously had a rough life sitting under a pound of the aforementioned sauce for much too long and arrived tableside as pure mush I will be honest I thought I might just suck it up and say nothing It was getting late and I just was not in the mood to explain or ask for something else But one of our other dinner companions encouraged us to express our displeasure and she was right to do so Granted this meal was a cool bucks a STEAL for a night out but I am pretty sure we overpaid by about and so something had to be said The server offered something in its place but the entree portion of the Restaurant Week menu was limited understandable and the other two options did not appeal to me So I took one of them home for my lucky man who I am sure will be THRILLED to throw it down once he reads this review Actually I took a bite and it was the best thing I would had all night nnAll things considered I did not feel much concern from the server about our collectively poor experience but I was just happy to leave We were in such a rush to leave that I left my scarf and my friend left her phone The server did walk the phone outside which was a very nice thing to do Thank you In other news there are far too many awesome place in LVille and beyond to waste my time returning to Matteos