I almost never give bad reviews, and especially when I wanna cheer on a small business. Plus I see many people raving about this place which I don’t know if I just happened to have a collectively inherently bad experience, but I cannot believe how every aspect of this pizza was wrong.
It looked amazing in the showcase window for pizza by the slice. But when I asked for gluten-free they did not have it by the slice & they said it would only take 10 minutes to wait and get a small pizza
So I go to order and couldn’t believe that first of all I’m told it’s $26 plus for just a small pepperoni pizza!
but I think maybe it must be gourmet or some authentic New York style because it did look good in the showcase window
so I went ahead to pay for it and then the gal who had only taken the order from behind the counter asked if I wanted to leave a tip and handed me the processor where it asked for 15, 20 or 25% (of which I’m already sticker shocked by the price for the pizza so I only gave 10% even tho all she did was process the money and take an order for a dang simple pepperoni pizza)
That’s fine just bring me the pizza and I’m hungry.
I was shocked at how bad it looked when it came out!
Nothing like how the pizza in the showcase window looked.
First of all, it was undercooked,
Second of all the crust was cardboard and tasteless.
Thirdly, the cheese was rubbery and had no taste and
The sauce was watered down with not much of it as it was and utterly tasteless as well
the pepperoni was just meh.
Plus, it tasted like there was too much salt added on the top (perhaps to try to get some semblance of flavor for the pizza)
So it was everything wrong with every possible facet of everything we love about pizza
Then to add insult to injury was, upon paying for it three times as much as you would for a pizza like that, I’m asked to give a tip for someone who just processed the order behind the counter.
I will say the nicest aspect was that the ambience looked nice (even though it’s a noisy street corner), but it was nicely designed - however no one was in the place (& maybe this non pizza trying to call itself a pizza is why?)
I don’t feel comfortable leaving a bad review because I want a local business to do well,
but I really hope that the owners of this get word and do something about the regular pizza.
I would’ve much rather had a supermarket store-bought frozen pizza for what would’ve been a fourth of the price
And I usually have cauliflower crust or gluten-free thru the store and it’s delicious - so I’m not picky in that way!
Yes, I may be rambling right now, but it’s because I am in disbelief at how bad this experience and this pizza was.
(was their normal cook gone and someone didn’t know what they’re doing? Don’t think so though cuz at least maybe the sauce or cheese or crust or pepperoni would have had flavor but it was devoid of taste)
There. Rant complete. Had to say it because of how bad it was. Apologies to anyone who might be insulted but it’s the truth of the experience today.
