Roman Candle is open in Fitchburg! This is great considering Fitchburg, especially the Research Park area was lacking a bar and restaurant ever since Kelly's closed down, needed a new bar and restaurant. So, on the third night open (Jan 16th) my wife and I decided to go try the new establishment and the pizza that people talk about.
I want to say upfront that we had a great experience here and do not let my rating reflect on if you should try it or not. You should! If I was not such a pizza snob I might have liked it better but I have spent my life finding great pizzas all over the world. Plus they would not let me do a 3.5 rating.
We did have a bit of a wait to get our table (the place is new....duh) and after we were sat down the atmosphere was a great little pizzeria and is kid friendly and fun. The wait staff was friendly and I was hoping the pizza would be just as good.
We did order an appetizer of the garlic cheese bread with marinara. it was good but it seemed to be missing a garlic taste. But it was good.
Then the pizza came....as with my previous reviews I order a basic the first time I go to a place as to have a measuring stick to rate with. So sausage and pepperoni for myself and my wife got bacon, tomatoes, and perchutto on her half. The pizza was good. Not great, no bad...just good. I hate to say it but thats what I thought (i really wanted it to be great). Nothing about it made me jump for joy and scream "this is amazing" like I did last week in Chicago (see my review a few back).
So, 3.5 stars for the Roman Candle Pizzeria in Fitchburg (so a 3 on the yelp scale). it was just too....just "ok" for me.
it will be interesting when the bar opens next door in March. I wonder how long before some drunk at bar time tries to get into the ice cream cooler.