Hate to disagree, but...
Written: Oct 30 '00
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Pros: none
Cons: greasy, salty, low-quality cheese
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| scmrak's Full Review: Mazzio's |
I found it interesting that all of the previous eleven reviewers rated Mazzio's with five stars. My one (and only) experience with Mazzio's is quite a bit more towards the other end of the spectrum...
When we moved from the Front Range to Tyler, Texas, about six years ago; we spent our first night in a Holiday Inn on the east side of town. Tired, hungry, lonely, and depressed (hey, we'd just been dragged kicking and screaming out of Denver), we thought, "We need comfort food; and it's gotta be pizza!" There was a Mazzio's just down the block, so we gave 'em the call.
I don't know -- maybe it was being in East Texas, maybe it's Mazzio's, but that was an experience I won't soon repeat. Here's how that phone call went:
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Clerk: HellothankyouforcallingMazzios.
Me: Hi, I'd like to order a pizza to go.
Clerk: Whatkindofpizzadoyouwant.
Me: Well, what kind of vegetarian pizza do you have?
Clerk: (Long pause) What?
Me: What kind of vegetarian specials do you have?
Clerk: (Equally long pause) We have six meats, five meats, three meats and three cheeses, or you can build your own.
Me: No vegetarian specials?
Clerk: No.
(discussion of sizes and crust options)
Me: OK, I'll take a large thin-crust with mushrooms, green peppers, onions, and black olives.
Clerk: (pause) What kind of meat do you want on that?
Me: None. I don't want meat.
Clerk: (another pause) Oh. (yet another pause) Lemme see, that'll be thirteen fifty-eight.
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I could just picture him talking to his compatriots on the order desk: "Hey, I got some wierdo here who don't want meat on his pizza!"
Well, I picked up the pizza, and, to be frank, it was nasty! only one spice present, and that was salt -- in abundance!! I've never had a greasy vegetarian pizza before or since, but somehow Mazzio's pulled it off.
For the record, no one in my household is vegetarian -- we just get tired of meat, meat, meat all the time -- know what I mean? I've eaten pizzas in such far-flung locales as Tunisia, Germany, Norway, Alaska, Boston, and Palm Springs. I've eaten fairly good pizzas from chains and poor pizzas from one-shop restaurants, but I truly remember only one or two pizzas in a forty-year career as pizza-eater that tasted as bad as that one from the Mazzio's in Tyler. Nothing was spoiled, but nothing was fresh, either. The crust was virtually indistinguishable from the box, except that it was perhaps darker and less grease-stained. The sauce? like something out of a generic tomato sauce with a couple of heaping tablespoonsful of salt added.
As I said, it's not an experience I'd want to repeat.
Food:
Way too salty, too greasy.
Special Notes, Tips or Menu Recommendations:
I'd recommend that you go somewhere else -- even Pizza Hut is better than this!
Recommended:
No
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