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Been awake for some days now, no time to sleep
If your heart is a pillow, this love's the bed
Tell me what is the music, inside my head at...Five50 Pizza! - Chris Brown (don't wake me up)
I've stayed at the Aria for the past 3 or 4 trips since this place opened earlier in the summer and hadn't gotten a chance to try this place yet until now. After eating here, I kind of wish I was either drunk at the time or craving a quick bite or maybe buzzed or about to pass out from too much fun because the pizza was just not that good.
First off, the appetizer options on their lunch menu is almost non-existent. I saw maybe some garlic bread and salads and meat and cheeses but not even calamari or something interesting? Kind of a big deal, especially since these pizzas take a while to make. We ordered two pizzas, one with red sauce and one with white sauce. The cool thing is that they let you mix two different kinds of pizzas into one if they have the same sauce so we did just that. Half of one pizza had clams and the other was more of a meat pizza. The other one we tried was a white truffle pizza that had truffle salami and truffle shavings sprinkled throughout. Oh my....everything was so salty!! Not to mention that we couldn't eat half the crusts because they were burnt from the wood fire ovens. The portions were bigger than expected but since we don't like wasting food, it just made us eat more of these salt monsters.
When this place opened months ago in its infancy, the reviews were not very good at all. I was bummed until I saw that the reviews recently have been much more well received so I thought it was a soft opening type thing. NOPE!!! It's ok - I very rarely eat pizza in Vegas anyways but if someone were to ask me, I would say go to the Cosmo secret pizza place instead.
glass half full --- grab a slice that's already prepared with a beer and head over to the sportsbook right next door
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