They'll Make a Pizza Pie With the Topping of Your Choice

A small local pizza chain's new restaurant in my neighborhood had a pizza giveaway last night: two slices and a drink for $0. So, moocher that I am, I went. The pizza was good, certainly better than much of the pizza available locally; but it wasn't quite as good as a place I'd tried for the first time a couple of days earlier (and the earlier pizza was delivered, while the free pizza was consumed in the restaurant bare minutes after it left the oven). Don't get me wrong: I enjoyed the free pizza. What I don't like about the joint isn't the quality of the pizza, it's the shortcomings of that particular restaurant.

The menu is spare: basically they offer slices and 18" pizzas. So either you can have a couple of slices of whatever's available, or you can have a negotiated-topping pizza with friends, if you are able to get them to go. It doesn't seem like it'll be possible to go there and get what you want in a quantity that you can eat by yourself (unless what you happen to want is what they happen to be selling by the slice). Moreover, the joint is a couple of blocks away from any parking, and they don't offer delivery; so if you do want a whole pizza, you have either to eat it there or carry it to where you parked a couple blocks away across some of the main commuting arteries in the area, with long traffic-light cycles.

The parking really isn't the restaurant's fault, saving their decision to open at the address they did, which perhaps was merely the best of a bad choice. Still, I don't think the offerings were good enough to draw me out of my way, and that location is almost always out of my way.