San Diego Fine Dining Review: The Old Spaghetti Factory

This place looks great when you walk in. There are a bunch of levels, it's dimly lit, and the there is this whole speech on the front of the menu that explains how the place manages to use sustainable ingredients to keep costs down. So far I'm excited to be here. The options on the menu range from meat sauce to clam sauce and I'm thinking that this place might be the best Gaslamp dinner spot we have ever found. But then the salad comes, and I get a bad feeling that it is a precursor to a crappy meal. You know, one of those salads that is pretty much just lettuce thrown onto a plate looking sorry. The house special spaghetti sucked as well. It was a salty plate of pasta with something called misrithra cheese. The sauce was greasy and my girlfriend's lasagna was worse than a safeway select frozen lasagna. The only one in our party who didn't notice how bad the food was was the 7 year old. So basically a generic TV dinner tastes better than their stuff.