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| - Oh Primanti's, I'm just going to lay it out there -- I think your signature sandwich is underwhelming. Sorry Pittsburgh, but I just don't get your obsession with fries and coleslaw on a sandwich. I know, I know...feel free to tar and feather me. :)
But my feelings about a Primanti's-style sandwich are irrelevant to this review, because this is a suburban Primanti's -- as such, they offer a wider menu that goes beyond just the sandwiches. We happened to be in the area and my husband wanted to catch part of the Pens game, so we decided to stop by.
We were seated in a booth, and it wasn't very comfortable -- they are all wooden with low backs. The low back was particularly annoying because not only could I hear every single word of the conversation from the people in the booth behind us, but the woman sitting there had really long hair that she kept flipping over into my side of the booth. Gross.
To add to my already-kinda-sour mood due to the hair-flipper sitting behind me, we were ignored for 15 minutes after we were seated. I finally had to walk up to the hostess and ask if we even had a waitress. Finally one appeared (and to her credit, she was very apologetic for ignoring us).
During Pens games (and apparently Wednesday Pirates games too), this Primanti's has a limited menu of snacks/apps that are on special (along with a Miller Lite beer special). Wanting to save money, we opted to share a few things from the special menu -- a slice of cheese pizza, chicken wings, chips and queso, and mozzarella wedges.
The food was mixed. I was surprisingly impressed with the pizza -- it was made with a nice chewy dough, tangy red sauce, and plenty of cheese. The wings were pretty standard-issue chicken wings (nothing notable), although the sauce they were tossed in (honey buffalo) was tasty (an interesting combination of sweet, spicy, and vinegary). The mozzarella wedges were also fairly standard-issue. They were cooked well -- crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside, but otherwise pretty average. The biggest letdown was the chips and queso. The word "queso" to me implies a creamy blend of cheeses laced with spices. This queso, however, was more like glorified ballpark nacho cheese sauce -- really processed, overly salty, Velveeta-esque. Yuck!
Other than being ignored for the first 15 minutes, the service was decent. Although there was a server (not ours) who nearly wiped out after slipping on a greasy puddle on the floor near our table, and instead of cleaning it up, he just made sure to sidestep it the next time he went by. He's lucky a customer didn't slip like he did and hurt themselves. It seems really lazy and risky to just leave the puddle there, and that bugged me.
So overall, my first foray into the world of suburban Primantis was mediocre at best. I won't be rushing back here anytime soon.
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