Best pizza?!
Yesterday we went with friends out to lunch. They had read about this place called Green Lantern Lounge which, supposedly, had the best pizza in Detroit area, according to the Detroit Free Press and local Channel 4.When we got there, I wasn't expecting a fancy place; from my experience, it's the small, hidden places that normally have the best food (or pizza). But when we entered I was a bit surprised to find out that this was actually a bar, not a restaurant, with TVs hanging on each corner, set on ESPN. It was a bar with a few booths and tables crammed next to each other with no place to move. We asked to be seated in a non-smoking place, but a waitress just said "sit anywhere you like" - and she was right, cause there was no non-smoking place! This place was just a local bar, where regulars were factory-type guys stuffing themselves with pizza and beers (even shots!) at 1 PM! I wonder where they worked... .
Service was horrible! Our "mid-lifed" waitress seemed in a major hurry, although they were not that busy. She wouldn't even wait to listen to our full order but was always interrupting us as we're giving the order and walking away! And it wasn't even a big order: a Greek salad and 2 pizzas. When we asked for more water a bit later, she just dropped a pitcher of water on our table. I guess it's self-service. When she was taking away our plates, again in a major hurry, she dropped a knife with pizza sauce on my sweater and didn't even notice it but walked away. Now I'm so pissed we left her $5 as a tip! She didn't deserve any!
Now is the best part: food quality. The so-called Greek salad was mediocre at best: lots of feta cheese, cheap iceberg lettuce, a few beets, olives and pepperoncini - no tomatoes and/or cucumbers. She brought some so-called garlic bread with it, which was nothing but a toasted, buttered hotdog bun! But it's OK, we were there for the pizza, not salads. So the pizza came. We ordered a regular and a deep dish one. The deep dish one was an OK thickness, nothing major (it's funny how a reviewer online called it Deeeep). So we tasted this famous pizza. Frankly, I don't know what kind of hallucinating mushrooms those who gave the awards had on their pizza when they did the review. I don't pretend to be a "pizza connoisseur" but this was just an average pizza! There was absolutely nothing special about it! Heck, the ready-to-cook Freschetta that we buy at the store is even better than that!
To make a long story short, Green Lantern Lounge gets not one, but two thumbs down.
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ByI second that emotion!
Someone should turn the light out on that lantern...
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