I just registered with Yelp right now to rant about how bad this place has gotten. I was going to post this on their FB wall but they smartly enough to offer reviews there. I have coming here for years and it's always been okay. Not great, but it's cheap and the kids love it. They usually have something we like and the salad and desserts have always been adequate but last night ...oh my stars... it was so bad. And they fool you because it looks so good! I should have know by the way on a Friday night at dinner time it was a ghost town but the pizzas were plentiful and looked fresh. As soon as I dove in to my 3 meat slice I immediately realized the crust was half cooked and worse, the sauce tasted metallic like what you'd get out of a can of Spaghetti-Os. Discarded that and went for a stuffed crust. No. Just as weird and undercooked and worse there is no hint of flavor in the crust. It tastes like half cooked biscuit. Not even a trace of saltiness. Moving on we tried the spinach, our all time favorite. The white sauce is at least flavorful but again, the crust had to be discarded. The barbecue sauce pizza was missing toppings. A few stringy bits of what I think may have been canned meat and I think there was cheese although I couldn't find any, just some hard bits that were either gristle or cheese. Crust was again undercooked and entirely unseasoned to the point I couldn't even detect YEAST, making it like a dried out biscuit.
My daughter tried the pasta but she only took one bite and said the sauce was gross. And this kid LIKES Spaghetti-Os!
I was going to try salad but it looked so dry and unappetizing. The dressing section looked FOUL. There were no tomatoes, the bacon bits were fake and everything else looked like it came from a can including pineapples that were spilling out into the salad mix and the pickle bin.
Moving on to desserts... the cinnamon roll tray was empty as it always is. I requested more and they brought some out about 15 minutes later. While we waited we tried "brownies" as they were labeled on a sign above the tray. I don't know what it was, but it tasted VILE. The "brownie" part tasted like hard tack biscuit with maybe a hint of vanilla. The odd part was this viscous fluid topping that was not icing, not custard... I don't know what it was. It was SOUR and tasted vaguely of mayonnaise. There was an apple pizza with a topping that I found okay if you like canned apple pie but again, the crust. I don't know how long it had been sitting there but the crust was like a tasteless dumpling with a dried bit of flavorless biscuit around the edge.
Garbage. So basically we got 2 half baked cinnamon rolls and a tepid drink for 18 dollars. The rest was discarded after a few bites. I'd have preferred ordering ice water like MOST restaurants provide but no, they charge for bottled water in a restaurant. If I wanted bottled water I would have brought my own non-wasteful reusable bottle... only you're not allowed to bring in outside drinks. How cheap does a restaurant have to be to be to charge for water? Oh I know, one that OVERCHARGES for drinks! Also, NO ICE, the entire time we were there. I got three pellets in my soda which I had to choose because I didn't want lukewarm tea. I tried later and it was completely empty even after letting them know.
I never saw a busser once. I was a little embarrassed at first with our discarded slices piled up but NO WORRIES apparently nobody was picking up anyway. Despite being half empty we were hard pressed to find a clean table in the early part of what should have been peak period.
What I truly wonder about though is why both of us started getting sick about an hour later as little as we ate. All night still today we're both tasting that metallic tomato sauce and mayonnaise despite mouth wash and a half tin of Altoids and we both have horrible stomach aches. I will never, ever go back to this place and it's a shame because the employees are all friendly and it's a fun place for kids, but not at the cost of tending to a sick child all night when I am just as ill. read more