| rev:text
| - It's a tricky location to find, or find parking in, but once I was there, I admired the atmosphere and let the waiter talk up the product since it was my first visit.
"Would you like to try a pizza starting with our vegan crust..."
My vegetarian dining companion salivated.
"...and topped off with our mozzarella blend and [a couple meat items]?"
At this point, I was confused by the angle of this place, and how this dinner was going to turn out. If you're not vegan, you don't care that the crust is. If you are, why are you advertising toppings made from animals first? Fortunately, reading the menu unveiled all the cool options and substitutions and whatnot. You can try pizzas that are 100% vegan. You can also load yours up with meat, with traditional choices like the "testosteroni".
At my most hungry, I am not an adventurous diner, so I ordered that. But first, my monkey bread appetizer. The bread itself is good, and the garlic superb. They could tone down the butter a bit, though. There shouldn't be a pool of it at the bottom of the basket. Overkill.
As for the pizzas, they're about $10 and 10 inches. The crust? Amazing. Great stuff. The sauce? forgettable. The mozzarella, and whatever it's blended with was also bland. The parmesan shaker had to come to the rescue! The toppings were also pretty lame, leaving me to wonder if they just scrape the toppings off a frozen pizza and put them on a really awesome crust.
The bar here is okay. I like to see some of the lesser-known tap selections, like Raj. My cucumber rickey was disappointing. I expect a rickey to pack a punch while at the same time being light and refreshing. Theirs was packed with way too much syrup, and I struggled to finish it. If you're familiar with my reviews, you know most drinks don't scare me away!
I can understand why this product was successful in the mobile food business. If I were out at First Friday, or some bar, I'd gladly pay to have their personal pie on the go. But when I'm sitting down in a stylish establishment, I expect a little better than what is obviously fast food quality. We could just as easily go to Hanny's or The Parlor for a pizza/cocktail combo at a similar price range. Maybe if I tried more exotic toppings I'd have liked it better. Maybe I should try their variety of food besides pizza. Maybe I'll give this place another try, but not before exploring the tons of other new spots in central Phoenix.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)