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| - Get ready to give your dollars a big kiss goodbye at Lil' Baci. A few friends and I were seduced by the sexy look of this place - the high ceilings, the art on the walls, the mirrors, the nice bar up front. But as the saying goes beauty is only skin deep and you can't eat a table or chair. We started with the duck meatballs and the house salad. The meatballs were good and worked well with the cream sauce, but the salad was only meh. For me, the best part of the meal was the rustic bread that was served.
The pizza however was a total train wreck. I ordered the fungi pizza and at $18 a pop I expected it to laden with all sorts of delicious mushrooms. Unfortunately it was a massive let down. I wouldn't even call it a pizza. The cremini mushrooms were soggy and lacked any real substance or flavour, and didn't work well with the tangy taleggio cheese or truffle oil. The pizza crust however was the real monstrosity. I wouldn't even honour it by calling it pizza. It was more like a puffed up pita. Totally lacking any texture, density or taste that you would expect from a normal pizza. It actually reminded me of the puffy pita bread they serve you at Paramount, which works well with Middle Eastern food, but not so much with Italian. I could barely choke it all down.
My friends were happy with their pasta and pizza dishes, but they're the type who are happy with pretty much anything put before them. They were kind enough to treat me to dinner, but I felt bad that they had to shell out $109 before taxes for pig slop.
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