I'm kinda fired up about how many positive reviews this place has. Honestly, if this is the best pizza in Colorado, then I sure feel sorry for all of you Coloradans. I mean really. Searching on my handy dandy Yelp app, we came across this place that had such rave reviews. Yelp, for the first time, you've done me wrong.
We were so psyched to hit this place up, we had been on the road for a few weeks, and were craving a slice. We were excited to see that it was wood fired, which is usually pretty good. We came in, took a seat on the covered patio outside, and took a look at the menu. I ordered a basil lemonade and the boy an iced tea. The basil lemonade was just okay, nothing spectacular. It is supposed to come with one free refill, and the other typical soft drinks come with unlimited. I was maybe halfway done with my lemonade when the waitress whisks it away, and refills it without my asking (pet peeve, when it's not even half gone). I guess that was my "free" refill. Grumble.
No bread to start out with or anything, which, okay, I guess we don't really need the extra carbs. We take a look at the menu, and decide to order a margherita pizza crazy style. We add on to it chicken, green chile (when in Rome) and arugula. The chile and arugula are $1.50 each, the chicken is $2.00. The base of the pie is $11.50. This is $16.50 before tax just for the pizza. We are starving and awaiting our pizza which our server guarantees will feed two (very) hungry people.
The pizza comes...it is NOT margherita pizza. I don't know what the heck it is. It was just...all wrong. The arugula was just dumped on top haphazardly. Whatever, we take a bite. We exchange looks. Blech. Why is it that people mess up margherita style? It's saucy pizza, fresh mozz, basil. Plus our three add-on items. Done. Ugh.
There was NO sauce on our pizza, it was so dry that the one half-refill wasn't going to cut it to bring some moisture back. There were a scant amount of chilies, certainly not $1.50 worth. And the chicken was bland and tasteless. In fact, the whole pizza was a bland, flavorless disaster. How the heck could a pizza with chile, chicken and everything else have no flavor? What the heck kind of pizza place doesn't have oregano or red pepper? What kind of pizza Twilight Zone have we stumbled upon? The cheese was of poor quality, no sauce, no anything. The only reason why we even ate the damned thing was because we were so hungry and we dumped a metric ton of parmesan on it. And then we left and shared a huge cookie to fill the void and somewhat satiate our palette.
I hate writing negative reviews, I really do. I think if you really "love" this place, then you haven't had real pizza. Maybe being from New York, the holy grail mecca of all things pizza and bagels I am a pizza snob. Maybe it's my Italian heritage. But this disparaging triangle of nothingness offended me. We have no shortage of fancy coal and wood oven pizza places on the Island, and just because you have a wood burning oven doesn't mean you have good food. And especially at the price we paid, a total rip-off.
The only saving grace was that our service, other than the refill incident, was excellent.
I think maybe I can come down there, roll up my sleeves and school you on how it's done. All I know is this establishment wouldn't last a week in NY. We'd wipe the floor with your pizza, and then take your money. Colorado, you're beautiful. New York bows before your majestic mountains. We've got molehills next to your Rockies. But hell, we've got beaches, and we've got real pizza, and I'm okay with that. read more