You are given a review about a place. You need to provide a rating from "1 star" to "5 stars" for this place.

Q: 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 :(

A: 2 stars
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Q: Beautiful interior,relaxing atmosphere,professional staff.i got waxed from head to toe. Least painful experience ever. I live in Baltimore and would be willing to come to Pittsburgh every 5 weeks just to enjoy this wonderful spa.

A: 5 stars
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Q: Meh. I've experienced better. I ordered a Thai iced tea ($3.00), the yellow curry with chicken ($8.50), and a beef pad see ew ($7.50). The Thai iced tea was pretty good. It was toned down in the sugar department, which is good for some folks, but if you are looking for that sweetness you might be disappointed.

The yellow curry was pretty bland. Even ordered hot with extra chili powder, it wasn't anything to rave about in the flavor department. Apparently they normally make this curry fairly sweet, but I specifically asked for it without extra sugar. I can imagine this curry with the extra sugar, and it would probably be a typical Americanized curry. The curry sauce was watery, which I normally like. The other thing I liked about this curry was that the chicken seemed to be precooked, and was very tender. Also, the portion of chicken was nicely sized. There were a couple of thinly sliced peppers though that were pretty skimpy.

I also ordered pad see ew woth beef to go (to go with my Alpha Dog Double Red from Big Dog, yum!). The noodles were a bit on the overcooked side, although that could have been due to my microwave (I have microwaved pad see ew many times and never had this problem though). The noodles were a bit on the dry side as far as the sauce used, but that was ok for me. The kicker was that they don't have Chinese broccoli, so this was served with American broccoli.

Overall, this place might be good for the lunch specials, but there are so many good Thai places around here. The service was friendly, but a little slow. The food was okish.

EDIT: Its been a while since I have thrown out left over Thai food. The soggy noodles were just gross. In fact, I have decided to dock Thai BBQ a star.

A:
2 stars
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