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| - Our Sunday ritual is pizza for lunch, so we decided to try this place we saw on Yelp. We live 15 miles away, but the reviews made it sound like it was worth the trip.
From the outside it is your classic hole in the wall place, in a main shopping center, with the front windows painted. The front had a mural of New York and the detail was pretty good, something I've never seen before.
We walk inside and it's a little dark, the menu board is clearly outdated with the numbers and letters tacked to a blackboard. There's an employee sitting at the table folding boxes right in the front, I found this kind of odd, couldn't he do it in the back? And as I walked around there's a ton of space in the back of the dining area that he could be folding boxes... He shouldn't have been in the front where the customers walk in the door.
We place our order but the front counter guy tells us to wait a minute while he answers the telephone. He should have taken our order first and put the call on hold as we were the only people in line.
We sat at nice clean booth and a few minutes later our garlic knots arrived. They were nice and hot and they even split them into two baskets for the Mrs. And I. (That way I couldn't steal her extra ones).
About 30 minutes later hot pizza was delivered to our table. It was O.K. It was pretty greasy and the crust reminded me of Peter Piper Pizza. Not the best, not the worst, certainly not worth $25.
The bathrooms were pretty clean, however the entire place smelled like sanitizer.
I'd probably come back, if I was in the area, and only for a slice and a drink, but we won't be making the 20 minute drive for it.
Not sure why there are so many 5 star reviews, either people don't know there are many other better places for pizza, or maybe the owners have a lot of "goombas" on the payroll to make the place look good.
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