Alfredo's

Alfredo's is the finest Italian restaurant in Old City. It is also Helen Magnus's favorite place to eat at; personally knowing Alfredo himself.
== History ==
=== Season 3 ===
	:In the year 2010 after having visited Hollow Earth, when Will Zimmerman wanted to take Abby Corrigan out for their first date, he wanted to make a good impression by taking her to the best restaurant in town that he's only ever heard of. Being a renown dining experience for the exquisite quality of its food, Alfredo's is always full and booked months in advance. In order to place a reservation for a table, Will secretly used Helen Magnus's name while she was on a mission out of town. This effort was all for naught though, as Will and Abby were subsequently abducted by the Vendetta Crew during their pre-dinner street-roaming activities, causing them to never make it to the restaurant. With the first no-show in thirty years, the sight of an empty table became "poison" to the eyes of Alfredo's mother. This absence prompted the maitre d' to make an inquiry call to the landline telephone in Magnus's study at the Old City Sanctuary; presumably the number Will had used to make the reservation. After Kate Freelander took the call, dubbing the maitre d' "Screamy McNaples", she relayed the incident to Declan MacRae and Bigfoot, both of whom knowing full-well the ire from Helen Magnus that lay in wait for Will once she returned home. Eventually, word did reach Helen about this and she called Will out on it the first appropriate moment she got, saying it was "incredibly low-brow" of him, as it put her in a bad light with Alfredo; whom she is still trying to make amends with.
	:Some time not too long later, both Will Zimmerman and Henry Foss had independently made reservations at Alfredo's for their respective dates. A slight hiccup occurred though. When both couples were simultaneously getting ready to leave the Old City Sanctuary one evening, both Will and Henry realized that they had unknowingly each used Helen Magnus's name, booking the exact same reservation for the table in the back room at 8:00 PM that night. With only one private room available, while the boys squabbled over who gets it, both Abby Corrigan and Erika Myers decided to compromise and double date to the slight chagrin of their lovers.However, once again date night at Alfredo's did not work out as planned. Due to an abnormal pickup gone wrong, the party of four never made it to the restaurant. When they were originally just running late (before the issue escalated too far out-of-hand), Abby had called ahead to notify the maitre d' about possibly holding the table for longer (potentially an extra half an hour). He returned her call a few minutes later with an update about the extension, informing them that it would not be possible; resulting in the group losing their table as it was passed on to the next customer (avoiding another potential empty table scenario for the restaurant). [Note: It is assumed that Alfredo's had then contacted Helen herself about this repeat no-show issue based on the scene below.]Presumably feeling guilty about the two couples missing their date (due to her requesting of them at last minute to side track their night out to deliver an abnormal for her first), Helen surprises the group when they eventually return to the estate by having had the dinner brought to the Sanctuary instead; setting it up in her study for them to enjoy with her. This consideration is out of the ordinary for the restaurant, as Alfredo's normally does not deliver; they however were willing to make an apparent exception for Helen Magnus though.
=== Season 4 ===
	:Near the end of the episode, Will Zimmerman has returned to the Old City Sanctuary from Monrovia, Liberia. To help celebrate his birthday, a secret dinner at Alfredo's had been planned. As Helen Magnus finishes performing a preliminary visual inspection of Will's healing eyes down in the infirmary, Henry walks in to greet Will and accidentally exposes the surprise; revealing a private room reservation and that Magnus was buying the cake and Henry himself was buying the wine. Will thanks them, however declines to join them as he had other plans. Helen and Henry leave as Will is joined by his father Jacob Zimmerman; Will tells Henry to save him some of the cake. Will tells his father that he could "murder a stake" and invites him for a meal.
== Notes ==
* Trivia: At the end of , Will Zimmerman and Jacob Zimmerman went to another restaurant instead of Alfredo's; likely a steakhouse, as Will mentioned eating steak. It makes sense, as Alfredo's is an Italian restaurant; Italian cuisine specialises primarily in pasta dishes.
** Factual Trivia: The only example that can be found of steak at an Italian restaurant (actual restaurants in Italy), is a meal called Bistecca alla Fiorentina, a T-bone steak you can get in Florence. Authentic beef is exclusively sourced from the Chianina cow, which is found and bred only in Tuscany. 
*** Speculation: It's unlikely that this specific niche dish part of local Tuscan cuisine would be imported thousands of miles away to the west coast of Canada in Old City. 
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