text: DAmicos is likeOlive Garden only less festive and with more local color We came here for a coworker holiday dinner at pm on a Thursday We made a reservation for seven of us but there was no need to call ahead the place was empty except for a man sitting at the bar and a couple of girls at another table across the room Definitely not hoppin The color of the walls and the decor remind me of a hotel restaurant that only serves a breakfast buffet It is very quiet in there except for the low noises from a TV showing a football game in the next roomnnOur server was definitely set in her ways as one of my coworkers said She had a routine in terms of when she took drink orders when she took food orders when she brought the check Deviations in the schedule seemed to because a does not compute response across her facelike when I sat down and she asked what I wanted to drink I said I was going to wait until my next coworker arrived thinking she might want to share some wine with me and she was just like you want to wait to order something to drink and I was all yes I just got hereI do not even know what I want and she looked so confused like how could some idiot like me possibly not know what they wanted to drink finally she was like oh do you need a list or something I know I am one of those difficult customers who requires a wine list in order to determine what wine I plan to order I am weird like that Trying to order food at the same time as drinks was also a nogo You have to play by her rules When we did figure out the complicated drinkordering situation my coworker and I enjoyed our halfcarafe of chardonnay I would recommend getting a half carafe the wine glasses are so small paying for a glass is a total rip off Get a half or full carafe and get your moneys worthnnThe entrees come with soup and salad which seems really oldschool and kind of awesome to me They had one kind of soup so you get what you get It was a chickenvegetabletortellini soup served in a little cup I liked it because I like thin brothy soups but it was not anything special The four little tortellinis floating around were the best part and it was nice to have some veggies too Salad was standard iceberg lettuce carrot shreds some tinnytasting black olives and the acidic but notbad strawberry vinaigrette that came on the side I did not bother with the bread it did not look like anything special and it just came with butter packetsnnI got the pasta roll for my entree Despite having lots of ingredients pasta spinach prosciutto pine nuts sambuca tomato cream sauce probably some cheese somewhere the dish was surprisingly one note I did not think it was wellseasoned I ended up pouring red pepper flakes on top to give it a zing which did not help terribly The texture was good and it was a cool idea and it was not a BAD dish but it was justmeh Nothing exciting Very average Pretty bland I tasted a few other peoples dishes and my response was the same It is just generic stuff Like I said Olive Garden only local Considering how meh the food was I think it is way overpricednnSo I would not go back It is not my kind of food or place For all the Italian folks around here I am sure Pittsburgh must have way better Italian food offerings than this