I recently had dinner at Carnevino with 4 friends.  While I've eaten in Batali places before, this one really takes the torta on overpriced food and fussy/condescending waiters and service.  Being from NY, I don't take kindly to snowjobs -- and this place was all about that.  \n\nOur server, a dweeb from LI to boot, who made lots of chit chat with us at first, was all about getting us to spend as much $$$ as possible.  He was good with the stories \"aged beef, so carefully prepared...be sure to pick up the bone and gnaw on it - like Mario would do if he was here.\" Oh pleeze.  So pretentious.  The tale of the cannoli prep was the best, as another server made up seemingly compelling stuff as he went along.  I was anticipating and fully ready to vomit up my overpriced meat in response to the line, \"each cannoli shell is carefully rolled between the nubile thighs of 16-year-old virgins\" if it came to that. And in Vegas, that'd truly be a rare thing.\n\n\nAfter having 3 small pasta plates to share, we went on to the mains. And, by the way, one of those pastas, the penne with anchovies, was about the worst thing I've ever tasted and should be fully avoided. They push the steaks, but as we were two couples, we could have saved some money with ordering one steak to feed 4 of us.  Mr. Server Douche never bothered to mention that the Florentine Porterhouse steaks are big enough for 4 people.  Nope.  He just had us purchase 2 steaks at the cost of $80 PER PERSON!!  The menu is misleading, as we thought it was $80 for 2 - not EACH.\n\nBasically for me, this restaurant \"jumped the shark\" in every way and it'll be a long time until I eat in one of Batali's joints - anywhere.  Figures he's friends with Goopy, by the way.  Ugh.