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| - My wife and I tried the newly relocated Pizza Oven because we wanted a salad bar, and Copps is the only other place we could think of in Monona (sooo sad). The salad bar at Pizza Oven is part of the pizza buffet (well, next to it, but you know the drill: it's a pizza buffet with a salad bar). The mixed greens lettuce was very fresh. There are a dozen or so toppings and maybe 5 dressings. The veggies were all good. (We're vegetarians, and so cannot speak for the meat toppings, of which there were several.)
My wife loved the breadsticks. I thought the mac & cheese (large elbow macaroni style) was very good. Almost all of the pizza had meat toppings, which is ubiquitous in Wisconsin (and elsewhere). We met the owner, and he was very nice. I didn't think the cheese-only pizza was great, but that wasn't why I went.
I liked it enough that I tried it again today, 3 days later. There was a plain cheese pizza out, and the waiter offered to make another veggie pizza if I wanted. I said that was OK--I would just try the cheese pizza. It was good--much better than the other day. I'm not a fan of cutting a pizza in squares (in squares?), but there you have it. The pizza in the middle is the best (which you can't eat without squishing your fingers in the cheese, as it's inexplicably cut into squares), but there you go. (Rossi's also cuts their pizza in squares. Is this some sort of twisted, Monona joke? Is this how Germans make pizza?)
If you like pizza + salad bar, and you're in Monona, this is your only choice. But it's a good choice. If you want something special, ask. They seem friendly and accommodating, and the next time I want salad bar, I'm going. And I may take them up on making a veggie pizza to put out. (Copps actually has the best salad bar in the area, but it's a grocery store, not a restaurant.) Anyway, Pizza Oven. Recommended.
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