Why go to a place to eat where you have to stand in line to order
for 40 minutes, lug all the dishes, silverware, napkins and drinks
by yourself to your table, then wait another 20 minutes for your
pizza, that is about the worst pizza I can remember eating,
pay $25 for the pie itself, put up with busboys that are marginal (no
waiters here, so good luck with problem solving from the staff)?
(How’s that for an introductory sentence?)
I ordered a large Arugula Pizza for my wife and I. The large pies are larger than
your standard pizza – 18 inches. So, they tout this as their value proposition.
But the taste was so borderline-average-cardboard that we didn’t want to finish the
pizza.
Maybe I’m too used to the Ledos on River Road in Bethesda with the rectangular
shape and the Pete’s 18 inch round thru me for such a loop that my frontal
cortex section of my brain (or wherever tastes are processed in my head)
rejected the 18 inch flavor.
Did I mention that the salad was above average and the spaghetti
was tasty? I ordered the Spinach Olivada salad and the sun dried
oven-dried tomatoes and Olivada dressing was a tasty combo.
Also on the plus side, the manager was well-intentioned
and the cashier that took my second order of wine (which I had to walk back up
and order and wait for – remember, no table service) did remember
my first order of wine 40 minutes earlier…so that was a huge plus!
So this is really an over-priced waste of an evening.
When I go out I want to sit and relax and be served decent food and
have decent service. I guess in the Friendship Heights
section in Northwest Washington DC, there just aren’t enough decent
restaurants that the families living in the area can walk to so
they have to put up with Pete’s.
Well, never again!
Pete's is of no value to me - but the salads are ok
