Fellini Cafe Of Media

Location: 9 minutes from SHHS at 106 West State St., Media

Hours of operation: Sun. – Thurs. 11:30 a.m. – 9 p.m.; Fri. – Sat. 11:30 a.m. – 10 p.m.

Specialty: Italian Cuisine

This restaurant was a bustling hot spot for dinner, even on a weekday evening. The table reservation scheduled for 7 p.m. still had us waiting for fifteen minutes. Once seated, the dimmed ambiance of the candle-lit environment gave off a homely feeling. Some strangely arranged illustratory paintings of chickens, pigeons, and other birds were scattered upon the warm-colored walls. The menus contained an assortment of grain and meat-centric dishes. The variety of pasta available page after page was paired with a choice of seafood and hearty cuts of meat. 

After ordering, an opera singer serenaded a table nearby with her rendition of Happy Birthday. Sitting in the opera room for special performances throughout the night is an additional perk available for an extra fee every Monday evening at the Fellini Cafe of Media. 

Complimentary bread topped with chopped tomatoes was brought out for us to snack on before the dishes arrived.

The Penne Primavera dish contained zucchini, mushrooms, artichokes, tomatoes, onion, and olive oil over pasta. The only flavor in this dish was in the mushrooms; everything else was coated in a layer of olive oil, which was not an especially fragrant oil, making the texture of everything wet and slick, and the dish difficult to finish. An oil pool left in the plate made me question why such a large amount was added. The price point of eighteen dollars was not a great Bang for you Buck, especially due to the unsatisfying taste.

The Chicken Piccata was served with a lemon butter sauce, capers, tomatoes, and a side of the day’s vegetables, broccoli, and rice. The sauce was perfect, except it was everywhere but on the chicken. However, the mixture of rice and broccoli with the sauce was delicious. This mixture of rice, broccoli, and sauce was the best part of the dish, and I easily finished it first. The chicken was thick and did not have much sauce on it or near it, making it bland and not worthy of being the main part of this dish. This dish was good but not worth the twenty-two dollars spent.