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| - The pizza tasted great. The rest of the night, however, was a comedy of errors.
My friends and I went out on a Friday night to Pizza Brutta, and it was the first time there for nearly all of us. We ordered our pizzas, one each, and drinks. While ordering my build-your-own pizza, I asked the man at the counter for topping recommendations, and he had none. I asked if he thought the eggplant would go well on my marinara + arugula pizza, and he said he thought it'd be fine. Fine? Does that mean good? Bad? What should I get instead? Salesmanship is a skill, and he should know the menu and what works well together. I went with the eggplant.
The wine list was small and our wine came in small glasses better suited for root beer than wine (shape matters when it comes to wine). My Cabernet was adequate, my friends' glasses of Montepulciano were underwhelming. Our pizzas arrived, mine without arugula, my boyfriend's with a hair in it, and my friend's pizza didn't actually arrive at all. She had to go and order it again, nibbling my crusts as she waited for her own food. We told the server about the hair in the pizza and she just shrugged. Que sera, sera is a great attitude, but hair in restaurant meals is unprofessional and unappetizing. My boyfriend was starving and not interested in making a fuss, so he removed the hair and ate around that slice.
My pizza tasted good - the crust was the star with nice flavor and chewiness, and the toppings were as expected (once I had them all). My friends thoroughly enjoyed the pizzas they ordered. However, the series of oddities from ordering to receiving our food makes it unlikely we will return.
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