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| - I've been here twice and both times I've felt like... maybe I ordered the wrong thing? I want the food to be better than what I've had because I like the idea of Queen Margherita.
First attempt:
When they first opened, Kat F and I dined upstairs on the prix-fixe menu ($25 for app, pizza, dessert). I wasn't really that into my iceburg wedge, bleu-cheese salad but the prosciutto arugula pizza was meh-to-okay. The prosciutto was room temperature/cold so I wondered if they'd put it on after it was already cooked? The dining room is nice but it's concrete/windows so it's as loud as salad king (if not louder). I couldn't eat any of the desserts because they all had dairy so they were very accommodating in offering me a fresh berry bowl instead, and it was alright. They were ready to go when they opened (professional, no opening week slip ups) but I just didn't like my food that much. I filed this under "to try again later."
Second attempt:
After a stunning pizza at Pizzeria Delfina in San Francisco last week (Kat F and I eat a lot of Pizza together... it's an omnivorous food) (http://www.yelp.com/biz/pizzeria-delfina-san-francisco-3) when I came home I had a hankering for a similar pie. I thought that I would hit Queen Margherita for a second go around in hopes that it could satiate my craving. In short: it did not.
The good:
- The iceburg/bleu cheese appetizer is gone from the menu (the apps selection looked decent - there were 2/4 things I actually wanted as opposed to selecting the thing I did not want the least, like I did last time)
- The staff was nice and welcoming (and kind of cute)
- They take debit and credit (no amex)
- Proximity to my house
The bad:
- No online menu. This is unspeakably annoying. When I got there, the menus were laminated, so it's not like they can possibly be changing that much. I wish I has been able to pick my pizza and call in my order, but I had no idea what they had!
- The pizza I had today didn't come with tomato sauce. Maybe that's my bad for not looking at the menu closely enough (or not understanding the words?) but I was devastated by this unfortunate twist of fate. (I have a theory that I am not meant to be happy with take out pizza).
- The pizza was expensive. $21 for a ~12" pie that would be about 8 slices at a pizza chain.
- It wasn't the best. It WAS A LOT BETTER than Dominos or Pizza Pizza, but I wouldn't say it was better than Buca or Lil' Baci at all. I feel like I may have (again) ordered the wrong thing. It was pathetic and meager compared to Pizzeria Delfino.
- 2 parties arrived as I was waiting - a party of 7 loud, obnoxious hockey loving family members, the loudest (and largest!) of whom managed to jostle and bump me as he thunder-stomped by, even though I was the ONLY person in the room, sitting at the bar, not even close to the stairs they needed to use to make their way to the unbearably echoey dining room. The second party was two women who were rude to the staff ("two." *stomps up the stairs without the hostess even having a chance to say right this way*). Obviously... this isn't the venue's fault, but I vaguely remember it being full of assholes last time I ate here too. You can infer that it's "not my crowd" if you like.
Overall... I will probably never go here again. It's expensive, I apparently never order the right thing (how many wrong things can there be?) and I haven't ever had a good food experience here, although the staff have always been outstanding.
From what I saw today, there seem to be enough GTL buttheads patronizing it to keep it in business.
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