Just awful, although I may have given this place two stars if so many people didn't rave about it. Where should i start ....\n\nIn the four months since I've move to South Charlotte I've had more meals at franchises that I did my whole life. It's kind of sad really. The place was packed , which strangely enough that's been a bad omen here in Charlotte.  I found a place at the bar and started off with Jameson neat, that mellows me out ... usually.\n\nI'll skip the usual whining about the service. Italian bread with olive oil and rosemary to dunk it in, fan-tas-tic, I'm starved! But only a supermarket would try to pass that bread as \"eyetalian\" and the olive oil was 100% tasteless. Throwing in even a drop of balsamic would have overpowered it. One down.\n\nThe Caesar salad arrives, it's just iceberg lettuce with some shaved Wisconsin processed parmesan and a couple of bread croutons. No dressing no nothing. Caesar what???\n\nI ordered pork chops in Marsala sauce and I finally understand why people gave good ratings to Fontanella ... believe or not the sauce here is actually WORSE, little porcini mushrooms totally overpowered by the salt shaker that was emptied in the sauce. And the Marsala forget it, there was NONE to be tasted, what's this prohibition era wine sauce. I wanted to just eat it and put an end to this ordeal, but the salt overdose made it impossible. The executive chef came out and met me. They served another pork chop (although the plate called for two of them) without the salt overdose but again without marsala or any significant seasoning. \n\nBack in the 90s I used to do go to bike week in Daytona quite often. The food was universally complete crap and the so called best restaurants in town (The Olive Garden and the Outback) had people lined up around the block, \nThat's what tonight reminded me of,  A huge crowd feasting on crappy food.\n\nedit: I forgot to mention the \"mashed potato with garlic\" because there's absolutely nothing to say about it.