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| - Balboa Pizza and eats located in The District in GVR area is a perfect location if it's a beautiful, sunny afternoon like today, this is a nice place to catch a meal with family and friends. There is ample indoor seating and a few outdoor tables with access to the bar. It has a Tommy Bahama at the beach feel, surfboards, vintage pictures of beach scenes and bamboo slats line the walls.
The food is pretty good. Items ordered tonight were mozzarella sticks, buffalo chicken wings (they offer a big choice of sauces, buffalo, teriyaki, chipotle, Maui, BBQ,etc.), green Greek salad (half order), BBQ chicken pizza, roasted garlic and artichoke pizza, chicken-avocado wrap. The apps were delicious, the wings were huge, the pizzas were good, however the roasted garlic was forgotten off the pizza. And, I hate to say it, but a green beetle crawled out of our side of cilantro. Now, if it was a razor blade or a human hair, I would have really freaked out, but a bug, they live in and on plants. I wasn't too upset, but our friend was beside himself. He told the waitress who took the little critter away and then the manager came over and apologized again and again, finally comping our meal which I thought was pretty cool. The waitress we had was very friendly and checked in on us a lot. Overall, the accommodating professionalism won me over, honestly, a bug in my greens is not that big of a deal (even if it's washed it could still live) (although our friend questioned if our greens had been washed previously which skeeved me out a little at the thought) and I would still give a Balboa another shot.
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