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| - Well, here we go again: Phoenicians handing out five star reviews like penicillin at a downtown clinic. They just make it too easy if you ask me (but who's askin'?). Been here a few times now.
The place: Really like it. Lots of wood surroundings, comfortable, open, and an herb garden right outside the front door. Terrific.
Service: Had everything from sassy and sweet (previous visits) to "nice" but detached and probably didn't wanna work that day (my latest visit). But we've all been there. Really like that there's always a hostess and there are lots of people buzzing about so you are always taken care of pretty promptly.
Food: O.K. - so we get it already - the pizza is good. It's the same as LGO as Pizza Biancho as blah blah blah. Has anyone really not noticed that flat pizza is about the same everywhere in the city? Phoenicians are annoyingly obsessed with "artisan" pizza. If they put half the energy they spend chasing down the latest artisan pizza into getting the Roosevelt district on it's creative feet, this could almost be one hell of a town. Sadly...the pizza chase continues. YES - the pizza is good here. Had the margherita and the seafood. Yum, fresh, and very pleasing.
What I've noticed is that nobody has really reviewed anything other than the pizza and obvious adjoining fare. Well, here goes...
Went there the other day, ordered, and was greeted by what had to be the smallest calamari appetizer I have ever seen. No joke...it's literally, like 10 pieces of calamari and shrimp combined. While I'm certainly not going to need gastric-bypass anytime soon to avert my hogging, I DO likes my calamari. This app has a three minute enjoyment time TOPS. At $9 for this amuse-bouche (that's French for "holy CRAP this is small"), you can skip it. I'm talking so little it has to cuff it's underwear to keep from tripping on itself. And then....the salad. Had the miserable beet salad, which arrived in a sort of flood-overflow-berm-meets-landing-strip-shave-job-for-a-centerfold shape. Oh - and again we are talking small. I'm a big fan of beets and the salads they adorn, but why would I pay $9 (again!!) for this meal when I can get a bountiful, delicious beet salad with dark, dark greens and breadsticks at Deluxe? I wouldn't. And I won't again.
The BF and nephew had burgers - and they were very well seasoned, the buns had that twinge of crispy deliciousness, and the fries were well seasoned and tasty. Not a single complaint about these dishes.
...but that salad. And that calamari. Whew....
This place is getting some things very right, but it sure isn't hitting all the marks. And their prices on some things definitely need a second going-over, because it's just a rip-off.
Oh, Artisan pizza...how you've made pseudo-critics out of a hungry, hungry populace. Sigh
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