Vincent's Italian on St. Charles

my go to italian place. You can have a great meal for around 100 including wine.

I have taken out food from there once, and used to eat at the Metairie location back in the day.

Service is ok, but food was good, especially their crap and corn bisque.

It's standard greasy Creole Italian. It's okay to good, but overpriced for what it is. Impastato's, Cafe Giovanni, Fausto's, and Tommy's are better, IMO.

5 courses for $26-34 is overpriced?

1) crab fingers or shrimp scampi app would be $10 in other rests

2) homemade alfredo and spaghetti would be $10 elsewhere, and not as good

3) romaine lettuce salad with tomatoes and delicious homemade dressing would be $7 elsewhere

4) two giant soft shell crabs topped with 1/4 lb of jumbo lump crabmeat would be $30 elsewhere

5) dessert isn't all that, but some of it's from Brocato's and would be $5 elsewhere

My calculations, and they could be wrong, show that this meal would be over $60 elsewhere.

are you accounting for two people? or just one?

You know, I haven't been there in some time. Perhaps I need to give it another go.

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Impastato's

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With a couple of exceptions, nothing I've had excited me at all.

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With a couple of exceptions, nothing I've had excited me at all.

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I would say this about Vincent's.

As for Impastatos, I'd have to remove the first clause of that statement.