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| - 2-stars. I can't help but wonder why Una Pizza + Wine is always so busy... Oh yes, this is Calgary where most people don't realize a $20 12-inch pizza and $8 glass of "house" wine is highway robbery. Maybe on occasion I will spend $15 on some kale, panko, a boiled egg, deli meat and cheese because I'm a man and quite frankly I hate making salads :) However, paying ($15-$21) for a dry, thin crust pizza that is lacking in flavour and ingredients is right above getting my scrotum waxed on my priorities list.
Una doesn't take reservations. Why not you ask? Well because they don't really need to. There are plenty of suckers walking along 17th ave at all hours day and night, so there! I was coaxed into going here one day. There were two of us so we were seated in the only available non-hour-long-wait space; the "chef's counter" aka, in front of the sweltering hot oven. The air quality in the restaurant isn't the best to start off with and sitting in front of the hot oven made it worse. However, we didn't feel like waiting an hour (BTW we walked right in). The smell of baked dough is good at first but then you end up wanting to go outside after a few minutes to the carbon monoxide fest on 17th ave for some fresh air. I'm a pineapple-in-my-pizza kind of guy so I ordered the "tiki" ($17); my friend ordered the mushroom ($20). I ordered a glass of the house white ($8) as well. I'm not a wine connoisseur so I won't comment on how good or bad it was. All I can say is that I couldn't "tell the difference" so they could've been serving a $10 bottle of something or a $40 bottle of something and I wouldn't be any of the wiser. I have a feeling it's not the latter.
Our pizza came out in a short while (10-15min.). They have a fancy tray device where you can put one tray on top of another at the same table, a smart idea! The tiki pineapple was sliced paper thin so it became really dry and hard to taste. The sauce was mediocre and the crust was dry. The mushroom was only slightly better ($3 better perhaps?). It came out with arugula and supposedly tuffle oil; I couldn't taste it. I only had 3 slices but I felt really bloated after eating there.
Ok, on to the good thing (singular):
Una's service is great (4-stars here, hence 2-stars overall). Everyone is polite. The service staff and the host staff are amazing and they run the place like a well oiled machine.
Una is part of the BMeX group of restaurants (see my Native Tongues Taqueria review) and I'm starting to see a trend with them. They like to hire young, hip staff, design a visually stunning dining area and then deliver a mediocre product.
I'm not returning anytime soon.
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