Avanzare Italian Restaurant

I don't usually find myself in the position of posting a one-star rating very often. Always try my best to find a positive at all the restaurants I visit. But in this case, I felt I needed to get this out there for others as a warning. GO SOMEPLACE ELSE! My wife and I arrived from O'Hare for a long weekend trip to attend a friend's wedding. We were starving and wanted Italian. Reviews looked decent so decided to check it out. Pulling in the parking lot was basically empty on a Thursday night at 6PM. The place next door (a bar) was packed with patrons. It was hard to even tell if this place was even open. Normally this triggers my flight response but we decided that we didn't want to go hunting for food since we had not eaten anything since before 10AM that day. Entering the dark building and seeing the room full of empty tables was the second warning. Again, we paused and should have run the other way. But we are diehard restaurant people so in we went. We were greeted by a f

We came to this place because it had very good ratings. I would say the ambience is nice but overall the food was average. We got the manicotti and a mushroom pasta and they were both just okay. The bread didn’t taste that fresh either. I liked the ambience, however they had reps from Jameson walking around passing out samples in the restaurant area which felt a little out of place.

Very cozy and very Attentive waiters. The food was amazing and also reasonably priced. Will definitely be coming back again. You just have to try it for yourself to understand