Restaurants that have "pizza" and "bistro" together in the name make me wonder about the level of ego floating around...
....but I thought I'd try it since I really like the original Red Devil in Phoenix.
What disappointed me immediately is that while it's a modern and hip looking little - okay, it's a bistro, I get it - you don't enjoy the place immediately. As you enter the doors, you run right into a wall...of cash registers. So unless you study the menu online and figure out what you want BEFORE you go in, you feel like you're holding up the line. I can feel those feet tapping and loud sighs behind me as I type. I feel pressured into ordering the first thing my eye sets on. Quick eenie meenie miney moe?
The seat nazis have a little fit if you ask to sit and look at the menu. What a concept, looking over the menu in comfort? Wow.
Of course I did it anyway.
Shame on me.
The food is generally good, I tried a little of the pizza. Thin crust was appropriately crunchy, toppings piping hot. Not overly oily. Basic, good pizza. But nothing that ran in my mind as 'the best' or 'interesting twist'.
I had the meatball sub. Big juicy light meatballs, a good tangy sauce stuffed in a nice rustic crusty bread that you know is fresh. HUGE. I could only eat half.
Prices run on average $8-$10. Drinks are separate. The servers are nice and quick to take plates off the table. I guess you only get the mean factor when it comes to the ordering part of the restaurant. There's a bar area with big screens but I can't imagine too many people sitting there watching a game, it's a little smallish.
I wouldn't mind going again if I'm in the area and feel like pizza, but it's not a place that I'll have daydreams about and cravings for.