It appears that Cella Luna has either changed its name or gone away and become a new restaurant entirely called Cucina Michael. Whatever the case, that is where my husband and I went to have dinner on Friday night. We made the fatal mistake that night to forget to call ahead of time to ask if the place was BYOB (a very necessary pre-dining activity in Central New Jersey). So we arrived empty handed which on a Friday night after a long week is not the way to arrive.
We were seated quickly as there were a couple empty tables. There was a kid's soccer party going on in the other room (which seemed strange at 8PM on a Friday night but I don't know. We're not in the "kids" world yet). The kids ran between the party room and the dining room all meal long. At the end of the night, I totally understood the table of open wine bottles in that party room.
Our meal though started off well. We had mozzarella en carozza. It was delicious little triangles of breaded mozzarella goodness. Our entrees though were a different story. While the basics were good (my husband's chicken parmesan and my shrimp and linguini), there was overall way too much sauce on both dishes. The top portions of our entrees were yummy but when you got to the part of the plate that curved into a little bowl, everything was so drenched in sauce that it became unappetizing. It was definitely a shame.
So while we loved our appetizer, we will not be returning.
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