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| - Our small family tried Brixx tonight. We love wood-fire brick-oven pizza. Two of us had the pizza and one of us tried the meatball sub with black bean salad. We also tried the Korean bbq meatball appetizer, and I had a Brixx house salad as a side.
Neither pizza lover gave Brixx pizza top marks. The crust was not especially crispy. The blackening on the bottom lent a bitter flavor. To the good, the ingredients were high quality. I loved the pear-gorgonzola topping with walnuts and carmelized onions, although the onions were sauteed at best and not at all carmelized (they were out of the butternut squash-goat cheese pizza, so this was my second pick). The more traditional cheese pizza was just passable.
The Korean bbq meatball appetizer did not taste Korean (and I'm a Korean food lover), and came with pineapples chopped up as a garnish -- it didn't go with the flavor profile of the meatballs, but it didn't fight against it either. The meatballs were tender and tasty in a generic way. The side salad was good, too, with goat cheese and pistachios. It hadn't been seasoned and the dressing wasn't balanced (too little acid in the vinaigrette).
The meatball sub could not be held, and that's a pet peeve of ours. If you can't pick it up, it's not a sandwich. The toppings were somewhat off-putting in terms of texture, but the meatballs were good, with Italian seasoning. The bean salad side received a 7.2 out of 10. Good but not great.
The music was on too loud and the tables were not well cleared or cleaned. Our waitress was the only one on duty when we arrived and the place was filling up, but there seemed to be a lot of other staff. She was good and friendly, but overtaxed.
The place has double sets of doors, but the inside doors were open. Hard to know why. Restaurant staff should be aware that this lets in flies, and sure enough, it did.
We didn't feel cheated, but we probably won't be back.
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