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| - I really wanted to like this place, but when you serve HAIR with the pizza, it's hard to like. My fiancé and I decided to finally try Federal Pizza a few months ago. We arrived on a Sunday night and it was very busy. We were promptly seated and started with the Mister Mister, which was over breaded and over cooked artichokes, baby zucchini, and sweet potatoes. The batter was so heavy and very underwhelming in flavor. The presentation was done well, but the execution was poor. We then shared the Chicken Panzanella salad. The salad was fresh, the only thing we didn't enjoy about the salad were the stale croutons. Now, here is where things go completely downhill. We order the Manifesto pizza and the 4 Kings Cheese pizza. I watched the manager on duty, checking the pizzas before they were brought to our table. At one point I witnessed her actually touch our pizza with her bare hands. Being a cook in Maricopa county, it is against health code violation to touch ready to eat food with bare hands. Well, our pizzas, which were raw in the middle, and passed the manager's quality control, were delivered to our table. We immediately pointed this out to our server and they took the pizzas to be cooked more. The cheese pizza arrived both times with a very large and unattractive grease puddle. I know pizza is greasy, but if you are using the high quality ingredients, you state you use, why is there literally a grease puddle. The Manifesto, arrived after being cooked more, my fiancé was trying to enjoy his slice, about that time the manager came to our table. As I am taking a bite, and she is asking us if everything is better now, there is a HAIR on my slice of Manifesto. I look at her and say, It would be better if I didn't have a hair on my slice of pizza. Her response was to LAUGH and tell me I'm jinxed. Really? At this point, we were both so turned off. We just wanted to leave and never return. My fiancé argued he didn't want anything free, that he wanted to pay and never would we come back again. She insisted on taking care of everything and gave us two coupons for pizza. We wouldn't go back even if it was free. Needless to say, I gave the coupons to a co-worker.
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