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Let's move on to the pizza. It arrived with kalamata olives rather than the black olives that we had ordered. Now maybe to some people, an olive is an olive, but these two types of olives have distinctly different flavors. One belongs on a pizza, the other on a Greek salad. When I asked our bartender/server, Alisha about this, she insisted these are the same olives they have always had. They certainly are not or we would not have ordered an item that we proceeded to pick off of the pizza due to it's off-putting taste. Finally, she spoke with the "chef" who admitted that these are indeed different olives. Really??? She politely took the inedible salad and olive upcharge off of our bill for which we were appreciative until we got home and assessed the half of the 16" pizza that she had crammed into a tiny to-go container. In the past, we'd taken half of the pizza with us and brought it home in a normal pizza box. This time, we arrived home and opened a tiny foil container to find a pile of wet, soggy goo. Alisha had somehow managed to cram an entire half of a 16" pizza into a shallow, 8" round foil container by stacking and mashing the pizza into an inedible mass of slimy goo.
Needless to say, there are far better pizza places in Scottsdale that offer consistent food and responsible service. We've never seen more than a handful of other patrons here at the most and this is likely why. There is no need to waste your money at this place and we certainly will not return.
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