Candela's Pizzeria & Ristorante Italiano

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CLOSED NOW - Opens at 11:00am

We ate in this restaurant a few years ago and it was excellent. We ate there last night, May 20, 2012 and it was terrible, from the bad service, to the food, to the attitude of the manager. He "refused" to even acknowledge that the food was bad, stating "We serve a thousand people every week and no one gets sick." Come on, the manager was there when we first came in, but he left and immediately there was a change in how his employees were behaving. They were goofing off, socializing with each other, and playing on their cell phones. Only one waitress was running around doing everything and she was the only one working. In addition, one of the waitresses (ours) walked by the table talking loud enough for us to hear several times that she was tired of the complaints from the customers about the slow kitchen and the lack of tips. Yet she did not provide good service. It took over an hour for our food to be delivered and she never one time came to the table to check on us or tell us what the delay was. She also didn't refill our drinks until we flagged her down and by then we were almost done eating. We had part of two pizzas left over and she brought one tiny box and we had to ask for another. One of these things alone could have been overlooked, but all of them together made for an awful dining experience. Then ad that both my husband and I had terrible stomach pain and upset stomachs all night and the next morning. Our son didn't have this problem, but he did not eat from the salad bar and his pizza was completely different from ours. The owner REFUSED to believe his food caused us a problem nor was he willing to compensate us for our meal. We will NEVER eat here again and advise others to think twice about doing so.