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| - I went to Giovanni's for the first time because my friend had a coupon from an Entertainment book. I gotta say, this place is a real dive, but the staff are friendly and the food is cheap-to-moderately priced.
We ordered the "garlic balls" appetizer just because the name was too funny to pass them up. I did not like them AT ALL. They were just balls of bread with possibly olive oil on them, and they tasted of garlic powder, not fresh garlic. Even the brownish "sauce" that accumulated underneath the "balls" didn't taste that great. My two companions thought they were ok, although I noticed they wouldn't eat them without dousing each piece in parmesan cheese.
That should have warned me, but we ordered pizzas anyway, and I was not happy. We ordered a 6-meat pizza and the Giovanni's Favorite garlic pizza, minus the spinach but with extra garlic. The meat pizza was all right- not great, but not good enough for me to come back.
As for the garlic pizza, I come from Ohio where Cap'n Tony's sells the best garlic pizza I've ever had, so I know good garlic pizza. Theirs was not only a bad example of a garlic pizza, it wasn't even good pizza- bland, tasteless, blah. You could see the extra garlic (it basically looked like it came from a jar of minced garlic, although that doesn't mean it was) but the pizza just wasn't flavorful. I thought they might have forgotten to put seasoning on it but no, the waitresses assured us that this is the way it always is. The waitress tried to convince us that the pizza was just "dry" because there was no spinach on it, but we hadn't even complained that it was dry. We complained that it had no flavor.
My friend gave the waitress a run for her money in an attempt to salvage the terrible garlic pizza, but the restaurant wouldn't replace it, and the waitress called my friend "aggressive" in the process. She did add some ingredients to it to help with the taste but since we had a coupon and it was free, the restaurant wasn't inclined to help us out. I'm not a confrontational person and I just wanted out of there - I actually felt bad for the waitress because it's hard to be in the middle of something like that, but I sure did hate that pizza.
So, this place may have its following, and the staff were actually friendly despite the disagreement, but I liked neither the decor nor the pizza, and I won't be back. Only one star from me.
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