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| - I have heard about this place for a while and it comes up all the time (on yelp) when I visit my friend in downtown Phoenix. I have wanted to try this place, but I never wins over all the other places to eat. Well that changed this time. My friend wanted to meet for lunch here and I have to say I was impressed, though it has a hipster vibe.
Lets start off by talking about the parking. It shares a parking lot with Joy Ride Tacos; so if you don't get there early enough, you will be doing the "complimentary" valet parking. But I don't grade on parking, so on to the food...
We ordered two appetizers. When looking at the menu, we ordered the first one, called the three meatballs and the last one, I dont know that one's name. The last one is five - six pieces of oven toasted bread and this "ice cream" sized scoop of some kind of cheese. Make sure to use both the mint leaves and the cheese when you eat the bread. That will a huge difference. Next we got the three meatballs. The meatballs themselves are not anything special. But it comes with two fried pieces of polenta and toghter. That becomes a very "tasty meatball."
On to the entrees. We got two pizzas a sweet potato one and the big star. The big star was very yummy. It has sausage, green and balck olives, bell peppers. On top of their pizza sauce. This would have been enough and is was very yummy. But my friend had to have his sweet potato pizza. I was pretty concerned with this idea. But I have an open mind so I tried it. Best decision today. It has slices of sweet potato and little bits of cheese (like goat cheese or something). The sweet potato add just enough sweetness and the cheese does not over power the delicious flavors of the pizza dough and sweet potato. I recommend this pizza, as long as you like sweet potatoes.
Finally dessert. It was my friends birthday so he had a email offering him a free dessert. We got the "bubbles;" which was basically doughnut holes with a chocolate dip. Again this was also delicious. The server suggested some kind of Oreo dessart, I'll have to try that next time.
If you don't mind paying a little bit more for pizza, I highly recommend Federal Pizza. But if you do mind spending a little extra for pizza, I feel sorry for you. There are so many tasy pizza places that end up on the pricier side.
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