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| - Just got back from my first experience here. A friend and I were heading down 17th looking for a place to grab lunch, and literally walked into the first place we saw that she hadn't been yet. All told, I was unimpressed.
Sure, when the bill came I was pleased it was so small and our server (while really nothing overtly impressive) was friendly. However, I have a few gripes about the place...
1. When sitting on the patio, there's almost no buffer to keep you from being harassed for spare change from the sidewalk (which happened to us and at least one other table that I noticed)
2. A little too much "suggestive selling" - I don't know how many people are easily convinced into order special blend martinis at 12:30, but it seemed a bit tacky to press the issue at that time of day... and literally grabbing the menu and flipping the page to where the pasta special was to point out where it said "8.99" (despite the fact it was the biggest, boldest type on the page) was unnecessary.
(Side note: on the topic of specials... how "special" is a "bucket" of 4 beers for $20? A five dollar beer doesn't exactly strike me as anything worthy of it's own ad on the chalk board.)
3. I'm a pizza fanatic. Anywhere I go that has pizza, chances are good that's what I'm going to get, and Fiore's was NOT good. Of the 3 toppings I ordered, one was so scarse I'm still not entirely sure if there was even any there,and even if there was the other two were in pieces so big it over-powered it, there was almost no sauce (and what there was was flavorless) and the cheese was too stong. Basically it felt like biting into somewhat crunchy chunks of mozza covered pineapple.... and since I'm griping about pizza I need to air one of my biggest frustrations about this place;
WHO THE HELL MAKES PIZZA AND (even on their 'build your own' part of the menu) DOESN'T OFFER PEPPERONI? As a true pizza fan I was shocked and a little bit offended. Pepperoni is a pizza staple that should never be ignored.
I didn't even finish half of my pizza cause I had lost all interest, and had the rest boxed up to give to one of the areas many homeless (I figure, great or not, a free meal is a free meal) and I likely won't be coming back.
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