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| - This is just sort of a bizarre little place.
First, the ambiance. The dining room is tiny and the furniture is mismatched. Figure, maybe ten tables or so. Strangely, their walk in refrigerator is located *in* the actual dining room, so you'll see staff running back and forth grabbing things out it while you're eating. Odd. I ordered a beer. It was actually a canned beer and the waiter proceeded to pour it into one of those little six ounce glasses you typically find in a dorm cafeteria. Not what I expected for $6 or $7. My better half also noticed the silverware appeared to be from Ikea. Lol, five star dining, this isn't.
The food. We ordered two pizzas and they were decent. Not outstanding, just solidly average. You'd better be sure you like cheese because they're going to give you a ton of it. Most of the pizzas are in the $10 range and they're fairly small pizzas, so it's a not great deal for what you pay for it. We had two of them and were still hungry. I did notice that the bottoms of the pizzas were burnt and had an ashy taste to them. I'm not sure if maybe the cooking surface was dirty, or what, but it detracted from the quality of the pizza with an ashtray like after taste.
The staff. They were halfway decent. Our waiter was working hard, but seemed to be a bit overwhelmed despite only having two tables. The head chef came around to visit the tables and seemed like he genuinely cared. Overall, I can't fault them here.
So, yeah. There you have it. The restaurant just doesn't have a finished, professional shine to it. Things feel haphazard and sloppy. Some of the other reviews mentioned they thought it might be part of the adjacent cooking school. Given what I had seen, and the weird door they have in the dining room that presumably goes to the next door cooking school, it makes sense. We bought a group on for this place to give it a try. I wish we hadn't. Some of this stuff is forgivable for the right price, but this place isn't cheap.
We won't be back.
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