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| - My family and I wanted to go out for a nice dinner and chose Papa J's after reading good reviews on Yelp. This is one of the few instances where Yelp reviews were not equal with my experience.
When you walk into the restaurant, the setup is quite nice. The smell of cooking and of the fresh bread is very inviting. There's also a display case with an assortment of cakes that looks very nice. The host was very cordial. But after the initial welcome, everything gradually declined.
Our waiter was quite smarmy. At first he seemed to be cordial, and then this attitude like he was better than us and doing us a favor by waiting on us came out. It was quite subtle in the tone of his voice. I thought I might have been too sensitive to this, but my husband later said the same thing. I won't go into details, but service was below average.
The bread here is good. I got a individual-sized pizza that was quite good. My husband's pasta dish was all right, but at $18 a la carte, I thought it was overpriced.
The absolute most disappointing part of my experience was the dessert. I don't order dessert often; so when I do, I expect an indulgence. The cakes looked so good in the display! We ordered a 5-layered chocolate cake and tiramisu. The tiramisu came in a goblet and it was the strangest presentation of tiramisu I've ever seen. It was like a blob piled in the goblet.
When I saw the chocolate cake, I IMMEDIATELY knew that the cake was not made there (and yes, the host later confirmed this). How did I know this? Next to the cake was a line of whipped cream from a can. It looked and tasted like Reddi-Whip! No pastry chef would use canned whipped cream. It's fine if the restaurant doesn't have a pastry chef and purchases their cakes, but really, canned whipped cream? It doesn't take long to make it fresh. I'm not a whipped cream snob, BUT I certainly would expect it from a restaurant with these airs. The clincher was that the cake was not fresh. The one side was stale! I'm sure the bakery that made the cake would be equally disappointed to know their creations were being served sub-par.
My advice: go somewhere else for dessert.
Papa J's has a nice atmosphere (what's with the flags though?), but it misses the mark on the food. It's just okay. I think it's overpriced by maybe $5 and I honestly think Olive Garden has better tasting food and desserts.
If it was appropriately priced for the taste of the food, I would have given Papa J's 4 stars. Since it wasn't, 3 stars. The service and the dessert took it down to 2.
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