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| - My family and I have been coming to Lorenzo's since they opened. So, why only 3 stars? After all of these years, I finally think I can write a justified review. First I want to say that we love the Grandma's Pie..best in the city or maybe anywhere else. If you notice, all of the previous reviews talk about the pizza. So, I am going to talk about what they are not taking about..First - the wine is horrible. I've suggested many times that they get better tasting wine and up their price. Right now they charge $5 a glass for the worst tasting wine in the world. It's gotten to the point, that if I'm in the mood for a drink with my pizza, I'm going to one of the other Ballantyne restaurants to have a good drink with dinner. Tonight we ordered the house salad. Thinking back on the house salads recently, the tomatoes are not ripe and the lettuce is iceberg that is more white than green. My son likes the kids spaghetti and meatball (one meatball), which is a good size for the child. He also likes garlic knots. These are not knots, they are pull apart rolls that have garlic and butter on them. However, the sauce that comes with the garlic "knots" is very good. Tonight we ordered the special, baked ziti with eggplant. Unfortunately, while the ziti and eggplant may have tasted good..it was hard to tell since it was drenched in tomato sauce and one huge slab of mozzarella cheese. The sauce was just ok and tasted like it was out of a jar with no seasoning. How can you make a good sauce to go with the "knots" and not have good sauce on the ziti. Thinking back to other entrees we have had, they were also drenched in sauce that could have been much tastier. We also had ordered the meatball parm sub. This was done very nice - 6 medium size meatballs on a sweet soft roll. So, to sum it up..if you are looking for a good pizza head to Lorenzos, but you'd better not want to have a good drink to go a log with it..Just stick to pizza at Lorenzo's.
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