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Arrivederci
My partner and I recently visited this restaurant for the 4th time on Valentine's Day (maybe not the best time to do that given that this is the busiest day of the year for most restaurants). As usual, the food was faultless. My problems with this restaurant have always been the inadequate service. Valentine's Day (with a full house) only made things worse. I made a reservation 7 days in advance, hoping that I could get a 6:30 time slot-only to be told that the restaurant was expecting 200 people around that time (there is no way that this restaurant could hold 200 people) so I changed it to 5:30 PM. Once we arrived, we were seated outside on a cold windy night next to a heater that was not working (you would think that the management would make sure that an outdoor heater was working on the busiest restaurant night of the year) Unfortunately this was the only table they had available. Oh, and as for the 200 people that were supposed to be arriving at 6:30 PM: We never saw more than 10 people at a time waiting to get into this restaurant from the time that we arrived until the time we left at 7:30 PM. The waiter was very matter of fact-no personality and unfriendly. The hostess was even worse. With all the great Italian restaurants in San Diego, I'll stay away from Arrivederci and go someplace where the service is in the same league with the food.— February 20, 2009 8:38 p.m.