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| - My twins like this place, so my wife got a Restaurant.com coupon for it last night, and told me to pick up dinner. I was skeptical. I didn't like the pizza they brought home from there last time, and remembered my daughter saying the guy screwed up her order, as well.
My daughter is vegetarian, so she had to order a pie without meat. Because she's lactose intolerant, it had to be cheese-free as well. She ordered a Grandma's Pie with no cheese, just black olives, mushrooms, red onions, and tomato-based sauce. The rest of us ordered a Grandma's Pie with cheese, mushrooms, black olives on half, broccoli on half, and bell peppers on the half with the broccoli.
"It'll be ready for pickup at 7:15. Bring cash; we don't take credit cards for pick-up orders."
Okay... So we got there at 7:13. "It'll be another 8 minutes or so..." Okay...
So, we people watch for 27 minutes. Finally, it's ready. "That'll be $27.36, sir." I counted out the exact change and handed it over. "Sir, it's $37.36."
"Uhh... I had a coupon, there..."
"Yeah, but the total before the coupon was 47.36."
"Whatever... Here." I paid, and dropped a few bucks in the beggar's (tip) cup by the register anyway.
They didn't provide a receipt. I guess you have to ask...
Well, we got home with the pizza:
They had left the mushrooms off my daughter's pie. They also used white onions instead of red onions. The crust on that pie was *almost* done.
They mixed up the order of ingredients on the other pie, putting peppers on the half with the olives instead of the half with the broccoli. Of course, this is a big deal when you have folks who don't like olives and other folks who don't like broccoli and bell peppers.
The cheese tasted like some sort of plastic. The crust was mostly still raw. I had to eat my slices with a fork, it was so limp and gooey. The broccoli tasted limp and freezer burned.
There were few discernible seasonings on either pizza.
All in all, we should have gone to Amalfi's or even Papa John's. It's sad, because this place has potential. It smelled good. The menu had some awesome selections on it. They sell Boar's Head meats and cheeses on their sandwiches. But this meal fell really short of the mark.
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