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| - I had heard many great things about this pizza so it was on a high pedestal for reference, and maybe because it was Father's Day they phoned it in, but I don't get to go out and spend $80 on dinner that often (food price only). I wanted to go to Pizzeria Bianco downtown but they are closed on Sunday's. Grimaldi's was stoking the fire, which takes about 45min, but we decided to wait. Ordered a house salad and a caprese salad. Also put an order in for 1sm (16") regular sauce pizza w/pepperoni for the kids and 1sm white with 4 veggies on it. The price is per topping, even if it's only on half of the pizza ($2-$4 each).
The house salad had a fly at the bottom, which looked like cracked pepper until my daughter almost ate it (the manager removed it from the bill). The service was terrible, the entire time. She ran behind me when we had outer mouths full and asked how we were doing without stopping. I had asked originally that I would want some wine but wanted to look over the menu, and all the menus were taken along with the glasses when I was in the bathroom. One busboy brought us new plates for the pizza and then another one came, stacked them up and took them away without asking. The waitress couldn't hear us over the din of an empty restaurant, so I felt like I was yelling and she said she didn't hear what I said when I didn't say anything. We were rushed, told not to get larges, which would have worked for us better because we like pizza leftovers and got none, there were no pre-built recommendations and everybody's meat and veggies are different from the next place. I had to cut the large pizza slices for my kids with the butter knife (hard to do and messy, the fork was sharper) because the waitress could not be tracked down. The mozzarella was good, but I've had better. The pizza was good, but I've had better in town. We got a booster seat only after we asked a manager. Sorry all the issues aren't in order, but I keep remembering all the stuff that went wrong while I'm typing and will remember a few more after I'm done. I was so fed up with the service that I didn't order any wine, I just wanted out of there, which took too long because our server was apparently swamped with the other tables.
For the price it wasn't worth it (I feel like deleting the review and repeating that statement for the entire length). My Father's Day dinner was a letdown. The pizza was just OK, the service was something out of the twilight zone.. I'm going somewhere else next time and not going to let people talk about it like it's the best pizza in town.
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