We went here for an early dinner on a recent Friday night. I had been to the original location many years ago, whilst the wife had never gone before. Only a couple of tables were taken, but as we were there the place got a decent crowd going as more traditional dinner time came rolling around. Anywho, one of my first impressions of the place was not too favorable, the descriptions on the menu board were so small, I could barely read them. We took a to-go menu to a table to sit down so we could review everything and have an idea of what each specialty pizza was. After a bit, I went up and ordered while the wife manned the table.
First, we shared an order of toasted ravioli. This was a nice reminder of some time we've spend in STL. The ravioli were pre-cooked (probably fried), then baked. The wife did not like that the marinara to dip in was cold, I don't really dip so I didn't care. For her, I ordered a 'Natural' pizza, which had apples and some other stuff on it. I decided to build a custom pie with foccacia, pesto, provolone, garlic and sun dried tomatoes. I almost didn't get that because some how my 'pizza artist' (I don't know if that's what they actually call them...) started to make the pizza without my input. I literally had to ask her if I could give her some direction... Anywho, the food came out pretty quickly, and everything was good, and the employees were friendly.
Torn between three and four stars, definitely needs the half here, but I'm going to round down, mainly because I was really annoyed with the small menu board, and while it was good, I doubt I'll be going here again, as I can make a pesto foccacia pizza at home that just as good and only slightly more work. (Another interesting thing...at least two other parties came in while we were there, checked out the menu, and then left...unsure if they thought there was going to be waiter service or what...)