For very good reasons, Joe's has closed.
Hi. I seem to have just been having some awful days lately, along with some really bad meals. Here is a post about another one…
The Mister had a coupon thrust upon him at work for this place called Joe's Pizza. and the wording on the coupon is "Because life is too short to eat lousy pizza"…well that sounds like well, maybe they know they have some *really* good pizza…or they are arrogant.
Its the latter.
The coupon was for a meal of a large, one topping pizza, a rosemary chicken, a large salad and a 2 liter soda for $20. OK. Let's begin.
Well, you can't particularly mess up a salad. It was good, plentiful had chopped mushrooms in it, tomato and shredded mozzarella. It came with a good Thousand Island dressing.
The chicken. Small (that is a salad plate, not a dinner plate-see the box of salad next to the chicken?). COLD (as in, it was refrigerated cold). Tasty with rosemary, and with the salad made a nice SUMMERTIME meal. Too bad it was another night of quite cold temperatures, and was not hot with crispy skin I could munch on.
Then there was the pizza.
Looks OK, eh? Wrong. The one topping The Mister chose was sausage. It did not taste like sausage; it had no flavor, but it did have texture AND it was sliced sausage pieces, not crumbled like you usually get. The cheese was *sparse* and had no flavor. Oh and the crust…what can I say? Um…well, the texture was …chewy,cardboardy, thin, in a bad way, like the pre-made crusts you get from pizza in airports…AND it had no flavor…the sauce was without herbs and spices…not salty, not tomato-y…more empty calories…
This, combined with the COLD chicken (The Mister said he heard one worker tell another worker to make sure the chicken was hot when he was getting ready to take it for delivery) which was not supposed to be cold…oh this was so not worth it. You can try it, if you'd like, but I am pretty sure we won't go back.
Joe's Pizza 5583 Clairmont Mesa Blvd 92117 (858)268-0093
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