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| - When you sit at the bar, you expect a friendly and talkative bartender. Not so much when we arrived at 5pm on a Monday. The bar was barely full, but when we sat down and our guy came over to us, we asked "How are you?" and he replied "Busy". OK. That is not how I like to be greeted, no matter if you are slammed or not. Needless to say, my husband and I were on a rare "date night" out after having a baby and couldn't wait to indulge in some pizza and beer. The selection of microbrews was fantastic, I must say. They even had a few selections from the Rouge brewery, which we had visited in Oregon a few years back and loved. I am in a fruity beer mood lately, so I went with the Papago Orange Blossom. Hubby went with a nutty brown Rouge (I forgot the name.) Along with the male bartender, there was also a female bartender behind the bar and she seemed a lot less frazzled than her male counterpart. As he whizzed around acting busy, she calmly rang in orders he needed into the register. She ended up taking our order since he seemed to not have one multi-tasking skill in his body. As we were ordering, I got a tweet from a friend who suggested we order the Parmesan Pretzel appetizer, so we ordered that along with the Philosopher's Pie.
The pretzels came out as a big appetizer. 3 pretzels larger than my husband's fist with cups of marinara to dip them in. They were blah to me. It was basically the pizza dough made into a pretzel with a little olive oil and lots of Parmesan cheese. I could barely eat one and then realized I'd probably have no room left for my pizza.
When the pizza came, it was hot and looked great. It had shaved steak, portobella mushroom slices, kalamata olives and white cheese. I picked off the mushrooms because I hate mushrooms, but loved the other ingredients. It was a good pizza. My husband enjoyed it, but he too was feeling incredibly bloated and full already.
I wasn't impressed with the lack of personality of the bartenders. My husband and I choose to sit at the bar a lot when we go out because we like to have some conversations, discuss drinks and watch some sports. If the people behind the bar can't do that well, what is the point of putting them in that position?
The only reason I will give this place another chance is because I love the selection of beers on tap and I'd like to try some other items on the menu. Plus, the restaurant is right across the way from Harkins, where we go for movies.
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