TASK DEFINITION: You are given a review about a place. You need to provide a rating from "1 star" to "5 stars" for this place.
PROBLEM: Went there a few times and everything was great. But recently, saw a fight between staff and customers, severely wrong order. What I got and what I ordered were not even imaginable as being accidental. There's a new Zaxbys in that area, go there instead.

SOLUTION: 1 star

PROBLEM: 5 stars for the food
0 for the service!!!! (and if there was anything below 0, that would be it!)

I saw the famous Scarpetta spaghetti on Food Network's "The Best Thing I Ever Ate" and since that episode, I have been obsessed with going to Scarpetta. So excited that one opened up in Beverly Hills last October! However, I've been too busy to make the drive out there.

I was in Vegas for 1 night on April 1st and while wandering around The Cosmpolitan Hotel, saw Scarpetta! Super excited! Made reservations for 8PM. Arrived on time and was seated promptly. Then waited, waited and waited! Really, 10 minutes before our waitress even came by our table (and empty seats all around us at this time)! Mind you, we had a 10PM show so I kept looking at the time... She took our drink order then returned 15 minutes later with our drinks!!! So almost 8:30 and have not even placed our order. She says she'll be "right back" and another 10 minutes.... Ahh, if it weren't for that spaghetti, we would have walked out! So 35 minutes after we arrived, she takes our order.

Spaghetti for me and braised short ribs of beef for my husband. OMG.. our food arrived at out table at 9:30! Ate fast (because we had tickets to a show at 10). BTW, the food was amazing!!!!

Had to ask another waiter to find our waitress so we can get the check. She came back to our table at 9:50 (without the check of course) and I explained again we had a 10PM show (which we ended up being late for) and needed to get out of there!

So the food was as good as I thought it woud be but the service (or lack of) ruined my first Scarpetta experience :(

SOLUTION: 2 stars

PROBLEM: Strawberry filled Milka Chocolate bars wins an automatic A-Okay in my book; you can't find those in World Market. I LOVE chocolate and OHGB has an amazing assortment of German chocolates! If you are ever doing some German cooking and looking for a hard-to-find German ingredient, this is a place to check out. There is a decent assortment of German sausages, cake/pie mixes, and general cooking goods.

The ladies at the counter are always very pleasant to me so I don't know what the hoopla is all about in some other reviews. I lived in Germany for 2 years so I have VERY high bakery standards (they have one on every corner), and I will say this bakery is quite good and they have quite an assortment of breads. Not the best I have ever had, but if I am in the area it is worth stopping in!

SOLUTION:
3 stars