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| - This is a solid 3-star pizza joint. If I was having a really bad pizza craving and they were they only place open I might even toss in another star. It won't blow your hair back but it's certainly orders of magnitude better than anything you'll get in the Giant Eagle freezer section. This was our first experience with Nunzio's and it was delivery. Here are the highlights:
Customer Service: Average on the phone. I'm not saying I need to have a excitement, it's just that the guy on the other end was all business, flat affect and straight to the point. I could hear in his voice that he wasn't happy to be there. On the positive side, he did get our order right.
Delivery: The guy on the phone told us "within the hour". Nice CYA line. The reality? About 20 minutes between hang-up and door knock. Pretty damn fast if you ask me. They are 0.5 miles from our house, though.
Pizza (medium 8-slice, pepperoni, mushroom, banana pepper): This is your typical pizza joint pizza. The crust was fair to middling, not too thin not too thick. Crispy and tasty as far as crusts go. The sauce, and probably all of the other ingredients on our pie, was canned and tasted slightly metallic. Not bad, just noticeable. It was also on the sweet side (read HFCS) but all-in-all not horrible. I thought they were a bit stingy on both the sauce and cheese amounts. If I can see sauce through the cheese, it's not enough.
Garlic Bread with Cheese: It was a white, sesame seed-topped hogie roll slathered in garlic butter, herbs and provolone cheese. What's not to like. Unfortunately, it was wrapped in foil which meant it was soggy when it arrive. Still sucked it all down.
House Salad: No surprises with this one. Your typical pizzeria salad - iceberg lettuce, shredded provolone, diced tomatoes. The tomato was anemically pale and horribly out of season, not their fault, and the rest did as much as it could. The house Italian dressing is very sweet.
Our total order (excluding tip) was $20 even. Not bad for two people I suppose. I won't lose any sleep dreaming about a follow-up visit with Nunzios but I certainly won't be having any nightmares either. They're a bit of a neutral experience as far as I'm concerned.
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