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| - i'm thoroughly amazed at reviewers who whine about paying $17 for a large pizza with two toppings. It reminds me of my late father-in-law, visiting from Poland, who, when we took him to a store selling Polish foodstuffs in Glendale, looked at a package of pierogi for $ 4.99 and indignantly said he doesn't pay more than 50 cents for them back in Krakow. Of course, he had an excuse: he wasn't comparing the salaries of the average American to the average Pole. But seriously? $17 for a pizza? What century are you living in? Believe it or not, when it comes to "cheap" dining, Arizona does pretty well compared to most of the country.
Cheap people living in an unrealistic parallel universe aside, the owner of this place used to run a pizza place in Avondale, where the food was quite good; and that tradition has carried over to this place. The bread on the calzone tastes delicious (it wasn't my calzone, so I couldn't try more than a corner of it; but I've been assured it was very tasty) and the sausage parmesan I had was also very good.
No, it's not bargain-basement prices; but good food costs money and when you think of the costs of rent, food and paying employees, these prices are not unreasonable. If you think they are, may I suggest the tacky pizza shells you buy at Fry's, a bottle of pizza sauce, all the veggies you can buy and an oven. Let's see if you can do it for under $17.
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