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| - I know I'll be one of the few persons on Yelp to not rate Montesano's highly but it's an honest review.
After seeing so many 5 star reviews on Yelp I was really eager to try Montesano's. The general consensus was:
Great food
Good prices
Very warm and friendly service (this i truly appreciate nowadays)
Moreover it was near my neighborhood so I was really happy about finally finding a good place with good food, good prices and good service.
I decided to try pizza, pasta and several other dishes.
The pizza had a generic crust, crispy but nothing really special. The sauce was nice and chunky. The garlic however was completely overpowering everything and then it was the cheese. I don't know what sort of cheese they use but this one smelled and tasted rancid. Maybe some cheese aficionados will enjoy this rancidness but I didn't. Note that I didn't order a special pizza with weird cheese mixes. (If you're wondering I had to throw the pizza away since neither I not anyone else at my house liked it)
Their stuffed garlic knots are, as others have noted, deep fried and have cheese and pepperoni in them. Again the garlic was overpowering and the cheese taste was too much. They were also very greasy and heavy, probably due to the deep frying.
The pasta came with some small fried doughballs like garlic bread, only they were deep fried. Not really bad, they tasted like the stuffed garlic knots. The sauce was ok, nothing really special but decent enough.
I also tried their homemade canoli. The filling was sweet and generally fluffy.
As for the service I was really looking forward to that family like service everyone talked about. Maybe it was just me but even though I arrived on time my order (i ordered for takeout) was not ready, some items were not available and had to be substituted, most of the store was focused on an obnoxious young lady who kept complaining and arguing about the pastries.
I really wanted to like Montesanos and went there thinking I'd find my new favorite place to eat in the valley but I was very disappointed and won't go there again. I realize my review is probably the only negative, for now, but it is 100% honest and believe me you'd be pissed if you spent $70 on food and had to throw everything away because no one liked it.
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