Problem: I have been there for lunch. I used to be a happy customer of the restaurant, in the old Champaign location. They used to have good, homey, tasty food. Nothing of that is left, the memories barely. My girlfriend tried a vegetable salad with tuna [not a tuna salad], as per the description. Of course, we expected a small piece of freshly cooked tuna. Instead, a couple of vegetables of debatable quality, topped with small pieces of fishy-smelling (MORE than fish is supposed to smell fishy anyway) disgusting tuna TAKEN FROM A CAN. Excuse me, a salad of EXPENSIVE RESTAURANT quality is not supposed to use 20 cents-worth ingredients. My main dish was an EXPENSIVE seafood lasagna which, again, was one of the most execrable pieces of culinary garbage I've ever eaten in the wonderful Urbana-Champaign. Gee, an honest sandwich from Jimmy Johns is many degrees of magnitude better and healthier. The Great Impasta masterpiece was extremely salty, with cheap, salty - did I mention salty? - ingredients (again, small, cheap shrimps FROM A CAN), heavy on the cheap shrimp, with little of the other seafood spelled out in the menu detectable in the real dish. A heavy, unsavory, poorly cooked bechamel sauce that made me feel uneasy for the rest of the day. I don't consider myself an excellent cook, but I cook better than that, drunk. I was brave and I ate part of my dish, because I was hungry. My stomach didn't thank me. My friend barely touched her salad, and returned it uneaten. The staff behaved as if nothing was wrong. A lot of money for food which is literally worse than the worst fast food I've ever eaten. Our stomachs were suffering... if you go to The Great Impasta make sure you've got stellar health insurance, you might need it. When it comes to restaurant food, the rapport between high prices and execrable quality makes The Rotten Impasta a champion of bad taste, in more than one sense. Bottom line: avoid like the plague.
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Problem: I generally avoid fast food and chains, but late night circumstances dictated. The Hawaiian slice I ordered was not great. I couldn't tell whether it's not great all time or whether it had been sitting for too long (it was 3:30 or so in the morning when I got it). The crust tasted pretty dried out as did the rest of it.
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Problem: This place S-U-C-K-S!!! I will NEVER come here again! The food was horrible, spent way too much time under those heating lamps. Everything was either dry or overcooked! And it looked like the staff never cleans the buffet tables, there was food spashed everywhere on those tables. Looks like they had a food fight right before we got there.
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Problem: When Mimi's was bought by the French company LeDuff America, Inc. ("LDA") a US based subsidiary of Groupe LeDuff SA, headquartered in Rennes, France over eighteen months ago, I thought wow, finally they'll fix this place up. D'oh If you don't know Le Duff America, their brands in North America and France include Brioche Doree, Cafe Del Arte, La Madeleine Country French Cafe, Bruegger's Bagels, Timothy's Coffee and Michel's Baguette. We fondly remember La Madeleine from living in other parts of the US and had such high hopes for our dinner here last evening So... what Yelp rating would you give a french themed restaurant that forgets to add the bacon and cheese to their Quiche Lorraine? That's right. No Gruyere, or even Swiss cheese. Just a fluffy egg mixture in a crust shell (see photo). I could go on and discuss the absent-minded, exceptionally slow service or a variety of other issues. Let just say I do not enjoy writing One Star reviews, and leave it at that. They do deserve at least one star for their delicious muffins. Otherwise, it would be a zero. Sorry!
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