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Friday, August 20, 2010

Pizza and Pasta Craving at Carlos Pizza

Since we didn't had the chance to eat out at Green Tomato one evening due to their busy work schedules so we tried Carlos Pizza in Venice Piazza near our offices. True to the theme of the mall, Carlos Pizza decorated their place with a Venice-feel, putting up a bridge and a mural of a canal river. It feels like Venice here in McKinley Hill when the rainy days come, believe me.



First order up, Creamy Pesto Chicken. It took forever before our order came but in fairness to them, they told us that we need to wait 20 minutes for our order since everything was cooked upon ordering. But already waited for 30 minutes for our pasta and another 15 minutes for the pizza. I even followed up our order of pizza before they served it. Service is too slow especially for working people like us considering almost all their patrons during weekdays are office-goers aside from the students from Enderun.

The pasta is creamy enough but where is the pesto?! The taste of basil, pine nuts and garlic was so minimal they shouldn't have the lisence to put pesto on the title of this dish. I'd have to say the taste was not spectacular. We had ground black pepper overload in our pasta since it's a bit bland.


They have two kinds of bottled chili sauce, the red chili sauce and the green chili sauce, to spice things up. I'm not sure what the difference is because I only tried the green one and it's not too hot.


After almost finishing our pasta, our margherita pizza came finally! We can tell that it was hot from the oven. But disappointing to see that there's only one basil leaf on each slice! They're scrimping on the basil even on the pizza. (I truly love basil so I was disappointed. hehe)


The pizza was so cheesy. So cheesy, in fact, it can be called cheese pizza with A basil leaf! Just kidding! Their crust was delicious though.


Our server gave us a bottle of chili olive oil. It goes great with the pizza, she said. The chili oil was yummy and it really did went well with the pizza. But I'd prefer if the pizza was already delicious by itself and need not add additional spices.


Overall, it wasn't a great experience dining here. They still have a lot of room for improvement.

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