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| - The food is a solid one star. (The service was good, but that doesn't warrant an additional star because service is supposed to be good. People primarily go to a restaurant to eat. The food is the most important, and as such, that's what this review will focus on.)
Here are the problems with the food:
1. Their pizza falls *squarely* in the camp of new age pizza: bland, very thin and sparse cheese, and a thin, tomato mash instead of sauce. Each and every slice has a gaping section where there's simply no cheese (see the first photo I posted). And it's intentional (apparently stylish in the mind of whoever runs the place). The very thin, sparse cheese and the mini pepperoni are the blandest I've ever tasted. All you're really eating is crust (see the second photo I posted).
Grimaldi's is fru-fru California-style pizza. This is really a problem because...
2. The very heavily themed retro/historic New York City ambience - the walls are covered in large, historic prints of NYC, bottles of wine abound, and right down to the Italian-sounding name of the place - leaves no other impression than a pizza place that offers normal/NY style pizza: the kind of pizza where there's no shortage of cheese, the pepperoni isn't bland, and the sauce is actually sauce. The thin, floppy crust is just there for something to hold onto. But here at Grimaldi's, all you're really eating is stiff, crunchy, a little-too-thick crust.
If you're going to visually sell yourself as some sort of relocated NYC pizza joint, then serve NYC style pizza! Grimaldi's needs to do two things: (1) change their name to something non-Italian, and (2) redecorate the interior to remove all traces of NYC. Maybe bright, pastel colors? Something to more accurately depict the new age style pizza they serve.
If all of the above wasn't frustrating enough, the tables in this place are too close together. You're packed like sardines. While trying to clean off a table, a worker knocked over a chair on the other side of the the table, and a customer nicely picked it up for him because there's no way the worker could contort himself to pick it up himself.
Due to the very heavily tourist-passing-through-and-doesn't-know-any-better crowd, this sardine seating arrangement translates to a VERY noisy environment. Despite being 2 feet away from the people I was with, we all had to practically scream to hear each other.
Summary: if you want pizza that's practically all crust with bland, sparse toppings that serve as little more than a garnish, and you like screaming to communicate, then by all means come to Grimaldi's.
Otherwise go somewhere else where you'll actually be served real, satisfying pizza.
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