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| - My boyfriend were ravenous after a day of strolling around Phoenix (strolling is hard work, shut up). Whilst stuck in traffic heading back towards Surprise, we started getting a little hangry and snapping at each other -- but lo! Food! Pizza and pasta and beer? Please, yes!
We went in and were immediately seated by a lass who looked like she hated life (black lipstick and a scowl will do that). We ordered a pizza and a pasta dish and a local beer, which was tasty. It was freeeeeezing in there, so I layered my lap in toss-away napkins and rocked back and forth like a psych ward patient.
Now...the food.
The personal pizza wouldn't even have filled me up in my bird-like ways, much less my garbage disposal of a boyfriend. He was finished with it in about 3 bites. It was pretty light on the toppings, as well, and it arrived on the table uncut. Charming.
My pasta dish was boring. Think of the most Spaghetti-O-plain-Jane-no-herbs marinara sauce you can conjure up. Now make it blander. That was my pasta. Tolerable, but not worth the price. I let my still-starving man eat the rest.
So he ordered a cannoli, thinking, Yay, two for $5, that's awesome! Um...these things were the size of a 5-year-old's pinky. I didn't even know they came that small. I've worked in 2 Italian restaurants (both family-owned and admittedly superior to any chain out there), so I know what a good cannoli can look like. That wasn't it.
Service stunk. Didn't bring out utensils with the dessert, never checked in, didn't bring the waters we asked for twice, brought the bill before we were even done with entrees. All in all, I can see why the only other patrons were old folks.
Gets 2 stars for not being stinky, dirty, etc. But not coming back.
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