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| - Bona advertises itself as offering Italian-style pies, and what do I know? I've never been to Italy.
On our first visit, I had to say the pizza was quite decent. Maybe I finally found some local relief from the "New York-style" that dominates this town. (No slam on NY-style; it just isn't my thing.) Quality ingredients, the pizza not turning to mush or congealing before the meal was over, a fair price, and a nice guy at the counter made for a tentative thumbs up. Not amazing for my tastes, but one of the better pizzas in a pizza-bereft area.
(Okay, so they screwed up the second pizza entirely, which we only discovered upon getting home, but since I didn't say anything and give Bona Pizza a chance to make things right, I can't really complain here. Accidents happen.)
Second visit? More like Little Italy than Italia. Yikes. Now we had crust that goes vertical as soon as you grab the edge and is soggy by the end of the second slice. Same good service, same good price, same good ingredients, but not the same pizza at all.
Was it a fluke the first time? Did they change their style to suit the crowds? Was I just unlucky on the second visit?
These questions in my mind, there's another problem. As noted in another review, they have started slipping into gated apartment complexes and spamming the residents with their fliers. I'm of the school that just because everyone else does it, that doesn't make littering and (essentially) trespassing acceptable. If the people who worked at Bona Pizza weren't so nice and perhaps feeling desperate in this economy, I'd knock another star off this review. That said, this move has convinced me not to give them a third chance.
For those not bothered by live action junk mail, though, Bona Pizza is certainly worth a try. If it's your style of pizza, you'll probably be pleasantly surprised by the quality and the service.
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