The New York Daily News reviewer Michael Kaminer said that he went to the eatery with an open mind despite his colleagues portraying Joanne Trattoria as &ldquo;the worst thing since herpes.&rdquo; <img alt="Lady Gaga" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/sep/gaga_7.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 588px; " /> Lady Gaga. Pic/Santa Banta &ldquo;When a restaurant charges 18 dollars for fried calamari, should the dish arrive so sloppily plated that it looks like the kitchen threw it back in the bowl after dropping it?&rdquo; the Daily Telegraph quoted him, as saying. &ldquo;Should the appetiser glow with grease or boast more breadcrumbs than squid? And should the accompanying marinara sauce taste like a powdered mix? &ldquo;Any goodwill you muster will go out the window when you notice &lsquo;Expresso&rsquo; &mdash; yes, with an &lsquo;x&rsquo; &mdash; for 5 dollars on Joanne&rsquo;s menu. It&rsquo;s more like concentrated Sanka, but you&rsquo;ll need it to avoid choking on a tiramisu cake (14 dollars) whose desiccated base holds gelatinous cream tasting vaguely of plastic,&rdquo; he added. The reviewer said that the place is &#39;charmless and generic&#39; and wondered how the restaurant&rsquo;s namesake, Joe&rsquo;s sister Josephine, felt about having her name attached to the eatery. He said that the absence of head chef Art Smith (who was once Oprah Winfrey&rsquo;s personal chef) was &#39;palpable.&#39;

An Upper West Side restaurant owned by Lady Gaga's parents Joe and Cynthia Germanotta's has been panned by a food critic, who has given the eatery only 1 star.

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