After seeing Prisco's on the Phantom Gourmet, I was excited to try the place out, thought it would be a nice end of summer thing to do with my grandson. Upon arrival we see the ice cream shop right off the main road and to the side, a little gravel road that leads to the deli shop, batting cages and mini golf set in the back. We arrived right at noontime so we decided to grab lunch at the deli first and on the way out we will try the ice cream shop. The outside of the deli/store is very pretty, lots of usual items lying around the front porch but there is no visible price tags, so not sure if any of these items were for sale. Once inside (door open) we see an open area with tables, set in the back was the kitchen and counter to order food. At this time it seems we were the only customers in the building.
We were greeted at the counter by the wife (recognized her from the video). Our order: The Caesar salad, with grilled chicken added, for my son and the Buffalo chicken wrap for my grandson. My friend ordered the small Venice and I the large Parma. I asked about drinks and the wife directed me to a refrigerator in the front corner of the store. There I find an array of odd flavored sodas. I go back to the counter expecting to pay at this point but the wife and (I assume her teenage son) are in the back getting busy filling our order. During the wait for our cold food, we walked around the store. I can say this place is Sensory Overload; the amount of stuff is overwhelming. Many of the items were not priced and the few that I found with a stickers or written in price next to the, made in China label, were way overpriced. We saw baskets and baskets of random candy but nothing that you can't find anywhere else. My friend noticed some of the candy SBD was way past the expiration. One package of candy expired in 2014, so clearly they do not clean out their old stock very often.
After about 15 minutes of walking around, we sat to wait for our food. Around 10 minutes later the wife brought our order to the table. I immediately notice my sandwich looked pretty flat but I was very hungry (I ordered a large and my eyes are always bigger than my stomach) so I grabbed one half and started eating. Just after a few bites I had to stop since the sandwich was so dry. Note, the Parma sandwich is listed to have: prosciutto, fresh mozzarella, basil & olive oil. I didn't taste any basil and I was wondering if they forgot to add the olive oil. I opened the half that I was eating along with the half I had not yet touched. The ratio of meat was fine, there were just a few little torn pieces of mozzarella and three brown shrivels up pieces of basil. I stopped eating at that a point. My friend said her sandwich was fine but nothing great. My grandson said his wrap was okay. Also during this time, since the door was open, Kamikaze flies were diving at our food. I wondered how do they keep these flies away from the deli meat? While shooing away the flies so my son could eat in piece, I took good a look at his Caesar salad. The romaine lettuce looked old, dry and dirty, largely cut leafs with brown edging and the croutons were over sized. Clearly they use these to help camouflage the lack of grilled chicken they actually put in the salad. I decided to just throw the rest away. The owner's teenage son was waiting at the counter, I asked if there was a trash barrel and he said no, he would take our trash. I Brought over our trash and showed him the basil that was in my sandwich and said you seriously cannot serve this to people. He became very quiet, his mother must have heard and she told him to remove the cost of my sandwich. I thanked them for honoring that. I listed off to him what we ordered and paid for the remaining. I then asked him how or where do you pay for the mini golf and batting cages. He said I could pay there or over at the field. I decided to pay over at the field, so we left the building to head over. As we walk around to the back of the building we see the son jump into a golf cart and raced past us to the field building. We laughed and said "Talk about multi tasking", we felt like we were in the Caddy shack movie.
The mini golf and batting cages were well maintained and beautifully landscaped but boring all the same.
On the way out we stopped at the ice cream shop. Prices were fair and the servings large. But sadly the taste of the ice cream was nothing to celebrate.
Overall very disappointed and will never go back.
The few people working between each building were polite and friendly but clearly the place is very poorly managed and disorganized. It seems to me, they are not prepared or know how to handle more than a few customers at a time. Also, they must have friends in high places (many five star reviews) because the quality of the food, how it was prepared, the flies, expired food items being sold. I think the health department owes this place a visit. read more