I was really impressed when we walked into the Rusty Onion. They must have put a lot of money into renovating the space - it looks great (no idea how it used to look tho).
We sat at the bar for a couple drafts and to share a pizza. They have a good selection of Charlotte & NC beers at a great price, score! We started with the Greek Salad - it was really big and the dressing and ingredients were A-OK (except for the dried cranberries, that threw me off). For our pizza, we shared the Great Balls of Fire - a meatball pizza with tomatoes and red peppers. We ordered ours with banana peppers instead. All-in-all the ingredients were fresh, but everything about it was just bland. Almost like the dough needed some salt or something?
The bartenders were fairly "green" but they did check on us, we just got the vibe that the restaurant hired a lot of inexperienced people.
Overall, we liked the Rusty Onion, but I doubt we'll be back. Definitely not my favorite pizza in Charlotte.