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| - To get an explanation of the restaurant, read prior reviews, I will save my fingers the typing in that regard. This place is where Anzi's pizza used to be in the Stonecrest shopping center.
Went with my GF, we got:
-rizzoto cheese balls with marinara as an appetizer
-original round pie with pancetta, mushrooms, black olives, sausage, and mozz.
-square grilled pizza with pepperoni and mozz.
-2 soft drinks
$38.xx
Rizzoto balls were awesome. You could make a restaurant based solely on these! I would love options to add toppings into these...bacon bits or mushrooms or something. They are great though. The marinara was good, needs more salt though to make the taste pop.
Round pie: Amazing taste, pancetta used very sparingly though (not worth the $2.00), crust too poofy for the size of the pie. I felt like the slices were 70% topped, 30% dough. These pie's need to come with complimentary marinara dip sauce so I have something for all that crust. It's great tasting crust, but I'm hungry for pizza not bread. Pizza ends up being more of an 7" pie when you get all that crust outta the way. Taste was amazing....value just not there. You basically have a little personal NY style pizza with a bunch of soft poofy crust....I need 2 of those to fill me up...but not at $8.50 each pre-topped...sorry.
Square grilled pie: Crust lighter and chewier. I loved it. Toppings go all the way out to the edge of the pie which is awesome...however the amount of cheese was very lacking. Note to self; always add extra cheese as a topping and hope that gets you to the perceived amount of cheese that the round one has. The pepperoni was AMAZING. I'm fairly sure its the same smoked pepperoni that Portofinos uses....(which is my favorite pizza in Charlotte BTW). Sauce was nice, had some nice big chunks of crushed tomato. This pizza is the one to get assuming you order it with extra cheese and a bunch of toppings.
Fountain drinks: Syrup to water ratio could be tweaked, the Coke was a bit watery and as I've noticed with restaurants who do this...the city water taste is even more noticeable.
Price: Kinda steep for a novelty concept.
Service: Awesome!! The girl at the counter walked us through the concept and the process. Other staffers would walk around and check on you, very friendly, pretty smiles, showed sincerity and seemed to enjoy their jobs. This place does not have a spot on the receipts to write in a tip. I'm sure a tip isn't necessary since they don't really "wait on" you, just run your food out and then clear the table (ala Showmars, etc)...so I felt guilty that I didn't even have a dollar on me to give the table clearing staff since they were so friendly.
I definitely plan on coming back here....I feel this place could be amazing if the perceived value was increased by making a few tweaks as mentioned above (less crust size on the round pie, more cheese on the grilled, more syrup in the drinks, complimentary dip sauces for round pie's crust). Parmesan cheese in the shakers is high quality real cheese also...very tasty. Owner was there helping out, looks like a nice guy.
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