Francesca's By The River - St. Charles

The days of Italian restaurants are officially over. Fantastic, delicious food in the heart of St. Charles for every occasion. Environment: This...

Mio Modo is the modern reincarnation of the Italian restaurant Francesca. I think they wanted to reinvent themselves to...

Disappoint! The revised Francesca's in St. Charles were not what I had hoped for. The pasta was tacky, the fish was spiced over and no longer...

Great food, service, and friends with a great waitress Mary Beth

We were at our expected time, but that's where the good experience ended. While I understand that it's busy, we waited over minutes to be acknowledged and Brian (I think) greeted us by setting down used glassware and dirty silverware in his hand by saying "What do you want to drink .. not "Hello, how are you or Happy Mother's Day". Then, with his face turned to another table, he just walked away to go look at another tables food. We proceeded to get up and leave. The manager asked what was happening, I explained, and that was that. Super poor experience. Pretty sad as Francesca's has really fallen off over the years. Simply acknowledging a guest would have fixed the situation