"I went to Don Pepe for the first time today and we’ve had the worst experience. We were a party of 12, 9 of us arrived so I asked the host politely if we had to wait for everyone to arrive before seating us. The host then looked back to this table in the middle of the room, who was playing cards with 3 other people (I’m going to assume they’re the owners or managers) if it was ok to seat us. I then added that the rest of the party was 3 minutes away. The guy at the table then said with an attitude “then we’ll wait the 3 minutes, I’ll give you 5 minutes for support. If you sit down, you have to start ordering”. Off the bat, I should have left but because it was my brother in law’s birthday, I didn’t. Once we were all seated, we had a horrible waiter who kept reiterating that this is a family style restaurant. Yes, we get it! We know what the hell family style is. We wanted to order a lot of food (we love taking leftovers) because different people wanted to eat different things and again he kept reminding us it’s a family style restaurant. All the food came and we didn’t get enough food, we asked the waiter for another plate and he didn’t let us order more food! I’ve never been to a restaurant that didn’t let you order more food! The food was a typical American/Italian food, nothing special. There are other places that are just as good or not better and with way better service! Another thing was this place is completely rundown. The chair’s cushions were torn, the walls has marks and scratches everywhere. The whole place needs renovations, overall a terrible experience. Never again!"
