Really? Decided to try this place as a result of the overwhelming number of good reviews all over the various foodie sites. Although the place was packed out, we should have realised it was a mistake before we even sat down when we noted that there wasn't a single diner there that looked even remotely European. Always a bad omen if you're offering Mediterranean cuisine, and not one diner there looks Mediterranean. Ordered Spaghetti Al Vongole for both myself and my wife, with a bottle of S. Pellegrino for the tidy sum of $43.40. Not bad, considering the Spaghetti was poor quality packet pasta you can get in any supermarket, and the tomato sauce was poured out of a caterer's tin, before it may have spent no more than a few minutes in a pot to warm it up. My dish was served almost as a soup, with the pasta swimming around in a watery red concoction. After questioning the consistency of the sauce, the dish was returned to me, with most of the watery sauce obviously drained from the very same serving. Ok, let's try anyway. Wow .. two or three mouthfuls, and we knew. Yep, a worse dish, I doubt we've ever had!!! Did they slow cook the sauce to infuse true Italian flavours? Not likely. Have they heard of seasoning the sauce? Don't think so. Do they realise garlic, olive oil, and other fresh herbs are used generously when cooking down Italian red sauces? No, none of the authentic flavours you'd expect in even a poorly executed Italian sauce were present, and this, from a venue located smack bang in the Central Adelaide market? Hmmm .. if bland needs a new definition, we'd describe it as Lucia's Spaghetti Al Vongole, which brings me to the vongole themselves. The meat inside these delicate gifts from the Gods hadn't been respected and as a result, had been overcooked to the point where you'd have found more tenderness in chewing through a piece of rubber. It was also obvious that the pasta hadn't been fried off for a few minutes after boiling it, with the sauce, vongole, wine, additional garlic, herbs, and olive oil being tossed through it. Even my 10 year old nephew knows you'd do this when preparing an Italian pasta dish which involves seafood and light red sauce with it. We ended up leaving without having eaten more than two or three mouthfuls each, and when we contacted them later in the day to see if they were open to refunding us for the experience, we must say that they weren't very accomodating. They are very lucky that they are in an incredible location for foot traffic, as we doubt very much that they would be successful anywhere else. We ended up driving to Henley Beach and had a wonderful meal at our favourite Mediterranean eartery there where we spent almost three times as much for food which is consistently flavoursome, and simply boarish. As a final word, if you're Italian yourself, don't bother with Lucia's, as you'll be bitterly disappointed.