Friday, April 16, 2010

Pizzeria Romano

This meal was a detour. We meant to check out Olio, which had pretty good reviews on the Food Lover's magazine but it didn't even cross our minds that we needed a reservation. Rejected and feeling rather famished, we walked up and down the street searching for a restaurant and Pizzeria Romano looked good, from the outside.

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The interiors were okay. I guess I should give them some credit for actually *trying* to make the place somewhat stylish except why bother installing good lights when you are going to turn on half of them and leave the other half of the restaurant in total darkness?

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The menu looked more like suburbia-American-Italian than Italian and "A" thought the same about the food. Half of the wine options listed were unavailable and when we finally got a glass of shiraz, it tasted like it's been sitting around for a while.

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I was really looking forward to some wood-fire pizzas except the wood apparently ran out, so we had to settle for some oven pizza, which turned out pretty good. The thin crust was crispy and we had plenty of good toppings.

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Don't let this photo fool you; it's mozzarella sticks and not fish fingers. If you are looking for plain ol' mozzarella, you're in for a surprise. This one has pieces of jalapeno and a skewer and served with spicy tomato sauce. Just remember to blot it before you eat because it was extremely greasy.

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Chicken quesadilla. Whoa wait, isn't this Mexican?

What is up with restaurants that are trying to serve multi-cuisines? It just sounds like they are offering cafeteria food. Why bother claiming to be a "pizzeria" and then serve Lebanese and Thai? I don't get it *scratching head*.

And last but not least (are you ready for this?), my biggest complaint about this place is the amount of mosquitoes that were flying around and trying to eat us. It's really hard to enjoy a meal when you have to constantly wave your hands around, slap your legs and eat at the same time. The waiter did apologize and said he would mention the problem to the owner. Let's hope the owner buys an electric-swatter-bug-zapper racquet for the restaurant.

Overall Ratings:
"A"'s: 6.5/10
Po's: 4.5/10 (mainly because of the mosquitos)

Would we return?
Doubtful

Address:
55, 5th Cross, (Above Sprocket)
6th Block,
Koramangala,
Bangalore

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