Childhood comfort food in restaurants has the same problem all good cheap peasant food has, in that what it is can’t justify the prices needed to keep the doors open on a dine-in sit down restaurant in a decent location*. Either the prices are insultingly high for what it is or the quality is very poor. I have a can of chef-boy-ar-dee spaghetti and meatballs on my shelf at this very moment, and I loves me some powdered parmesan straight out of an american Italian resaurant from 1971, but the overall thumbs-up-or-down hinges on value.
*see also being charged more than $5 for a taco that should be $2.
I wonder do american Italian restaurants still typically have a night for an all you can eat spaghetti feed?
