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| - Bland city, across the board. Angelo's Pizza come fresh from the back of a Sysco truck to you.
We had bosco cheese breadsticks, cavatelli with meatballs, and a large pizza. Everything was very flavorless and quite short of special.
First, the breadsticks are just the cheese-filled breadsticks Sysco sells. There's nothing good about those things--it's heat and serve blandness. The bread has about as much flavor as a slice of wonder bread and the cheese tastes like a really bad stick of string cheese. They came with side of marinara and a side of garlic butter. The marinara was sweet--that's about all I can say of it. It didn't even have much herb or spice flavor. I couldn't even get any garlic flavor out of it. The garlic butter was good, but it's just a pre-packaged Sysco garlic butter cup similar to what you get with a Papa John's pizza. Thumbs down to this dish.
Note, now that I revisit the menu, the entire appetizer section reads like a Sysco fried foods order sheet. There's no appetizer you can't get for cheap in your grocer's freezer section at Angelo's.
The pasta was terrible. The pasta itself was overcooked. It's the same cavatelli everyone in Little Italy sells during the feast. The flavorless, no-texture, pasta that's mushy and without much texture. The sauce was quite bland. It was the same sauce from the breadsticks. I poured some garlic butter into the mix to make it palatable. The meatballs were also incredibly bland. The chunks of onion were so big that it reminded me of meatloaf, but without any seasoning. This was the worst meatball I've ever had.
The pasta came with a sad excuse for a salad. It looked like pre-chopped salad mix with a handfull of shredded cheese. The salad came with a packet of Sysco croutons and a packet of Neuman's Own dressing. We ordered balsamic vinaigrette--they can't even make that in house? At least Neuman's Own is a decent tasting dressing.
The Pizza was just ok. It wasn't as bad as everything else, but it wasn't something to celebrate. The toppings were in the right proportions and the pizza looked nice. However, I don't understand all the great ratings. The pizza is pan pizza, which gives a nice crisp to the thick crust. If you like pan pizza's, then the format here is right up your ally, but the flavor of the dough might leave you let down. The dough and the crust was no different than a Pizza Hut pan pizza. No different at all. If you think otherwise, I challenge you to a blind taste test of crusts and you'll not be able to tell the difference. Sorry, this crust was nothing but white bread. Pizza dough should have a flavor that comes from the dough fermentation. This lacked that 100%. The sauce, like the pasta, was sweet and lacking in garlic and spices. At this point, I'm thinking they either try to doctor up a pre-made Sysco sauce, or they just mix large cans of tomato paste and tomato puree with not enough seasoning or cooking to make a quick sauce. This pizza would have been a loss had it not been for the flavor of the pepperoni. The other toppings we had on the pizza looked like they came from a can. Nothing seemed fresh here. As far as I'm concerned, just get a Pizza Hut pizza and call it a day--it's going to be about the same.
I wouldn't be so harsh, except for that all this cost about $40. It's not worth the price. This joint is all hype. There are not really many "great" places for pizza in the Cleveland metro area, but of the few that are, this place is not part of the exclusive bunch. There are much better pizzas to be had. Perhaps if this was the closest pizza place to my house, I would be all about it, but I still wouldn't call it the best. I would just call it convenient.
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