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| - My wife and I ordered takeout from Brugos. Alarm bells should have been ringing when I walked in to pick up my order, and found the place almost empty, and the only people who were in there were at the bar drinking, not eating.
Basically, if you like poor quality pizza, this is the place for you.
I ordered a Caesar salad, which for some reason had tomato in it. If you can't make a caesar salad right, what hope the rest of the stuff?
And so it proved.
Cheesy garlic bread was next up. It was basically a pizza base, absolutely covered in pretty tasteless mozzarella. I can only assume they forgot to add garlic, since I certainly couldn't taste any of it, so basically it was cheese on toast. They did include a small pot of what I presume was supposed to be marinara sauce, but was instead tomato paste with some basil in it (I think it was basil, since this was straight out of a can tomato paste, the taste of that was so overpowering it was hard to tell exactly what the green flecks of matter suspended in it were).
Finally we get to the pizza - the crowning glory of a pizza restaurant! And we'd only ordered a classic margarita - surely a pizza restaurant can't get that wrong?
Actually they can. It was essentially more of the "cheesy garlic bread" only this time, instead of putting the "marinara" sauce in a pot, they had helpfully layered it underneath the tasteless mozzarella. It effectively rendered the tasteless mozzarella a binding agent only, so overpowering was the tomato paste. There were some tiny pieces of chopped basil on top of the pizza, that were completely defeated by the overpowering tomato.
No fresh tomato on the pizza though - presumably they had used all of them in the caesar salad!
This place was saved from the embarrassment of one star by the fact the order was prepared quickly. When I phoned it in, they said it would take 30 minutes, but when I turned up in 20 minutes it was ready for me. Of course had I waited the 30 minutes they'd said, it would have gone cold, but I'm feeling charitable!
Really, avoid this place. I've genuinely had better from Pizza Hut.
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Added on 11/5/13
I've just seen the owners response to my review, and had to comment further. They proudly claim that "Our Margarita Pizza is my Sicilian families recipe". Why does that make the slightest bit of difference? Just because your family is from Sicily doesn't mean they can cook! They might be terrible at cooking! Their recipes might have been considered the worst in Sicily (maybe that's why they had to move to the USA!), so slavishly following them doesn't mean your product will be any good.
Where any of your produce comes from and the recipes followed is irrelevant if the end product doesn't taste any good. Do you actually taste the homemade sauce you use and make sure it doesn't taste like overpowering rubbish you can get from a can?
Oh and by the way, thanks for pointing out that I could have requested you not put tomato on the Caesar salad. It's nice to know that it was in fact my fault that I didn't get what any normal person would consider a Caesar salad.
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