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Twinmom13 07-18-2014 01:25 PM

Ricciardi's Wine Dinners
 
Ricciardi's Italian Table in Brownood is now having monthly Wine Dinners.
July 30 this month
Price $65.00 4 course Gourmet dinner!!!

Also the village of Collier held a "Meet and Greet" on the patio at Ricciard's and had Happy Hour Pricing all night and 20% off entire menu. Great Spot across from music!!

Check it out!!:2excited:

NYGUY 07-18-2014 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Twinmom13 (Post 909490)
Ricciardi's Italian Table in Brownood is now having monthly Wine Dinners.
July 30 this month
Price $65.00 4 course Gourmet dinner!!!

Hummm!!....is this per person?...how much wine?...Gourmet?....??

Twinmom13 07-19-2014 11:48 AM

It is $65.00 per person and includes a minimum of four 6 ounce glasses of wine. A different one per course!! We drank more than 4 glasses!!! It was a great time and food was fabulous!!!

rubicon 07-19-2014 12:09 PM

Four glasses of wine at one meal would put me under the table. A couple after paying a tip would have about a $156.00 tab.

asianthree 07-19-2014 12:49 PM

If the food is good and a good quality wine it could be worth it most restaurants pour more than 4oz. But if it's $9 wine than for us it would not be worth it..

perrjojo 07-21-2014 07:53 PM

We had a group of four last night...just dinner...not the wine dinner. Three of us found our meal unappetizing. I have been married for 54 years and have NVER seen my husband send a meal back...he sent it back last night. Sometimes a meal is bad but 3out of 4 is pretty bad odds. I doubt we will go there again.

kellyjam 07-22-2014 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by perrjojo (Post 911264)
We had a group of four last night...just dinner...not the wine dinner. Three of us found our meal unappetizing. I have been married for 54 years and have NVER seen my husband send a meal back...he sent it back last night. Sometimes a meal is bad but 3out of 4 is pretty bad odds. I doubt we will go there again.

Same type of experience for us also. Found the food mediocre and expensive. Won't be back.

simpkinp 07-23-2014 09:08 PM

I went only once, tried my usual standard lasagne, and found it very bland. I took it home and spiced it up. Maybe I just ordered the wrong thing, but if prefer the nice and spicy PenneAriabiata at Mezzaluna plus it is right in Colony

Bonny 07-23-2014 09:38 PM

Unfortunately we had 6 of us go and 2 sent their meals back and I must say we were all underwhelmed. I did hear they made a few changes to the menu. We may try it again. We'll see. We have so many places we go and love that I'm not really concerned about it. If others like it, that's great !! I want everyone to do good !

perrjojo 07-24-2014 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by simpkinp (Post 912370)
I went only once, tried my usual standard lasagne, and found it very bland. I took it home and spiced it up. Maybe I just ordered the wrong thing, but if prefer the nice and spicy PenneAriabiata at Mezzaluna plus it is right in Colony

That's funny because my husband had lasagne and he sent it back because it was sooooo salty he couldn't eat it. Each of us at the table and tasted the sauce and agreed that the salt overwhelmed everything and was just inedible

gbeau407 07-30-2014 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Twinmom13 (Post 909490)
Ricciardi's Italian Table in Brownood is now having monthly Wine Dinners.
July 30 this month
Price $65.00 4 course Gourmet dinner!!!

Also the village of Collier held a "Meet and Greet" on the patio at Ricciard's and had Happy Hour Pricing all night and 20% off entire menu. Great Spot across from music!!

Check it out!!:2excited:

Person responsible for getting all these together has been let go by Management.

tommy steam 07-30-2014 02:04 PM

I have dined there many times. I thought it was ok. The pizza I had there was very good. The place is always full so they must be doing something right. If I received a bad meal ,I would take it up with the manager or owner.

jboursales 08-04-2014 10:20 AM

$65 plus tax and tip for two comes to more than $160. This is a lot of money. Great food but they are pushing the price !

Wandatime 08-04-2014 12:17 PM

While it appears to be lot of money, my restaurant owner friends say that is pretty good value for a special four course wine dinner. I wouldn't want to do it every week, but every once in a while it would be fun.

raynan 08-04-2014 12:40 PM

My friends went and loved it. Said it was well worth the price. They are from Chicago and said it would've been a lot more there. The wine was a full pour at each course.

Too bad the person who came up with this idea was let go. Seems to be a hit. We were in the restaurant while this was going on and it looked like a lot of people attended. It was in the back room and closed off to the rest of the restaurant.


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