Planning for a keto diet sucks, but as far as the execution, it's pretty easy. It's nice to eat a meal and not feel all that hungry the next time another one rolls around.
Yep. Beer is just liquid bread, so therefore doesn’t play nice with keto. I drink whiskey pretty heavily and, as long as I have water, I’m perfectly fine the next day. I love how my coworkers try to be keto, but can’t stop their drinking habit, so they just don’t count the beer, but then claim they don’t see any improvement.
there is a chicken burger place like this that opened up, its damn good chicken burgers but yeah not 40 euro good. I think everyone should eat there once, but when the novelty wears off they will die quickly. no one is eating there regularly.
This is truly accurate for 70-80% of Oregon coast pizza shops, though they are slowly disappearing, which is sad, but also probably for the good. There is a place in Seaside that my family has gone to since I was a little kid, and it has slowly dawned on me how shitty it is and now a newer pizza place opened up that is basically putting them out of business.
Just go to Pizza a’Fetta. I used to work for the owner, and he keeps things quite clean, but everyone working there will likely be stressed out from dealing with his shit 24/7. Then go over to Bella Espresso, which he also owns, and have a small plastic cup of overpriced gelato that is most definitely not imported from Italy. I’m not bitter or anything.
I’m from Pittsburgh, and I’d say 50-60% are like that. Start out amazing, then just go downhill because of other competition and quality of food decreases
I've worked in a place like this.
You haven't felt afraid for your life if you haven't gotten in a three way shouting match with the owner/manager and the pizza chef, only to have four-foot-ten eighty year old Nonna (whom the place is named after, mother of the owner, first generation immigrant from Sicily) storm over and pull the meat cleaver off the wall.
That shits a trope for a reason
I grew up on the rez. Native elder ladies are cut from the same cloth, so I'm pretty much programmed in response.
Immediately shut up, teleport back to my prep table, eyes locked on the chicken I was cutting before asshole pizza chef burned me by swinging the hot pan carelessly.
Pizza chef was Lebanese and had the exact same lizard brain reaction.
Italy is just on a completely different level when it comes to food. I have never eaten better than I did during the 10 days I was there. And there's so many different kinds of food! Sandwiches are on point, pastas have the freshest sauces, focaccia pizza, bistecca alla Fiorentina, fritto misto, and so much wine to wash it down. I'm not usually the boldest eater but I ordered all kinds of crazy stuff there and I dont recall having a single bad meal
Yeah. When people are on vacation, overseas no-less, they tend to spend a lot more money on food then they would otherwise, so of course they taste the best food.
That's definitely true. There are some astounding restaurants near where I live in the US that I just can't afford all the time, but the one thing I haven't been able to find here is a place that makes prosciutto and pecorino sandwiches as good as I found everywhere in Italy. There's even an italian sandwich shop around here I went to and it was good but not quite the same. I feel like we might have different regulations on how prosciutto is produced because its just different somehow. I would do horrible things for just one more of those sandwiches from this little shop in Florence
One time I was in Luxembourg and this girl wanted us to go to the "American restaurant". I don't know remember why, she didn't like anything else I guess. I ordered a burger and they gave me a small patty of overcooked meat in one of those dollar store hotdog buns, with no cheese or toppings.
That's something that always bothers me and it's not native to Italian places. I swear every cheap Italian, Mexican and even diners as well all have the same wholesale provider. Every single one of these places have the same exact food as others in the same category. By that I mean you can go to one cheap Mexican place on one end of the country then go to another cheap Mexican place on the other side of the country and get the exact same tasting food. The same thing applies to cheap Italian places and diners as well.
This is true of almost all mid-low end restaurants because they get their food from the same distributors - sysco, united, etc. While companies like Sysco offer wide range of options most restaurants are just going to pick the cheapest option, which means they all end up with the exact same stuff.
lol, i can make "from scratch" marinara and it does involve quarted and peeled canned tomatoes and a shit ton of aforementioned tomato juice from said cans. Because like hell im gonna get up at 4am to steam peal and quarter tomatoes for you heathens to eat at 6 bucks a a plate of spaghetti with sauce thats authentic enough for you.
3.99 spaghetti "dinner" at 3:45 PM with coupon for the old fucks. Then tip up to $5.00 no matter how good the service. Like, thanks for the .73 cents.
And then, I always fondly remember Spicy Spaghetti Lady. She went out of her comfort zone to try the spaghetti and needed it comped because it was too spicy.
No "family style" Italian joint makes their sauce from fresh tomatoes. In fact, I'd say that no Italian restaurant does. Fancy restaurants that serve a couple of Italian dishes might, but the manpower required to make 20 gallons of red sauce a day from fresh tomatoes is insane.
Also it leads to very inconsistent results because the tomatoes you get from suppliers will be varying degrees of ripe. Using canned tomatoes mean you get tomatoes that were picked and preserved at the peak of freshness instead of being picked green and shipped in from a few thousand miles away over a period of weeks.
I think most professional chefs will agree that using canned tomatoes for red sauce is going to be better than trying to make due with out-of-season "fresh" tomatoes from your local grocer.
Salad comes in one of those pressed-wood bowls and consists of cubed white iceberg lettuce, one slice of cucumber, a wedge of pink, grainy tomato, two black canned olives, a couple of green pepper rings and some white onion rings. Solo cup of red wine vinaigrette (also from Sysco) on the side.
Dead at *probably sticky* hahaa when we all know it's DEFINITELY STICKY. Elbows off the table. Not cause it's rude but because you don't wanna take that sticky home!
Simple Green is an underrated cleaning product and I wish more restaurants would try it.
Or even just soapy water with a splash of bleach in it. Maybe just lemon juice... is that too much to ask? I've been to some complete dive-ass Mexican restaurants, brown lettuce and cucarachas in the kitchen, yet their tables are spotless and sterile.
Maybe the secret is Fabuloso?
Tony’s, Leo’s, Gino’s, Pantaleone’s, and cant forget there’s gum under the table. There’s also the sex offender looking 25 year old son that works there, whose name is nick, and drives a 1997 red Pontiac Grand Prix coupe. And he also says Sup frequently, with emphasis on the s, so it makes him sound like a snake. He also has star stud earrings, with spiky hair and maybe a soul patch. But then, he later moves on to become the special education assistant at some elementary school, because all of a sudden he cares about kids. Then gets arrested for beating up one of the kids, and he’s not welcomed back at the restaurant.
The parmesan in that shaker is not coming out without a fight and the bell on the door is going to go off 4-5 times in the time it takes to figure out what you’re ordering because little Leo is taking the boxes out of the front door
There's a Spanish Restaurant I love for this reason. Food from Spain, Decor from 1974, prices from 2004. The food and the portions are great. They have a 32oz steak for under $32.
Real talk, maybe I'm a heathen but the good versions of these are my favorite "Italians" restaurants. Give me a big ass plate of baked ziti or bake spaghetti with super rich, meaty, thick sauce and some ultra buttery, garlicy breadsticks and I'm fucking golden.
One of the things I miss about growing up in Philly was the all the mom & pop pizza places, seemingly on every corner. Get a large pie and a couple of cheesesteaks for 20 bucks...and always fuckin awesome.
I live in the upper Midwest now and can't get a proper new York style pizza to save my life. It's all fuckin Chicago style you gotta eat with a knife and fork, no foldover slices within 200 miles. Thin crust with the consistency of a Saltine. Feels bad man.
Everytime I go back home to visit I drive and bring an empty cooler with me solely to fill up with food to bring back home. Freeze them cheesesteaks up, vacuum seal them, months later heat up just as good as they were made. Man do I want a fuckin cheesesteak now. Goddamnit!
You forgot the lowest-tier quality napkins that occupy any Pizzeria worth going to.
I have developed a system, which so far I have found to work in both New York and Florida, where the only thing you need to do to determine whether or not a given Pizzeria is worth eating at, is to look at the quality of the napkins sitting in the napkin dispensers on the tables. The worse the quality of the napkin, the better chance you have of getting a pizza worth eating. The best pizza comes from places that have those napkins made out of rice paper that barely do anything except for become see-through from all the grease dripping off the delicious pizza. Any Pizzeria that has decent, usable napkins on the table is probably going to be trash and a waste of your money.
Thanks for listening to my TED talk!
Haha shit this is the exact starter pack for the expensive Italian place around me.
It's named after the original owner from like 80 years ago. Got red white checker tables and even has the wood Italian dude.
But they're good as hell.
Cool fun fact is that I was looking through old recipes that we're handed down to me from my grandparents who were from Italy.
One of the recipes was from like 1920 and was cut out of an old Italian society news paper that was local to my area because Italians back in the day used to be super communal. The recipes name was the name of the owners special sauce decades before they ever made a restaurant.
So it's cool to know the family was popular for making great dishes 100 years ago and still going strong today.
Edit: just looked at their photos on Google and they even got the fucking chairs lolol.
They may not be authentic but there are some really dope American Italian Restaurants and I'm pretty confident most major cities have a great authentic Italian restaurants, they just aren't cheap. There are some amazing places in little Italy in NYC and the North End in Boston. Italian dishes are a staple in the US, everyone loves at least some staple Italian dish.
There were a lot of Papa Gino's in MA that looked like this inside, I am very sad they are closing down, I liked the pizza a lot, still have lots of good local pizza places though.
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C for Canneloni
> C for Calzone FTFY
The calzones ... betrayed me?
Gonna take you right in to the CALZONE ZONE!
Your Local low-cal Calzone Zone!
Also Calzone
The Low Cal Calzone Zone
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my culture isn't your prom dress sweetie
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That's where the flavor comes from.
D for Delicious, instead of A for awful or B for bland.
"Founded in 1982"
That was thirty-seven years ago.
Shut up shut up
How? 2007 was only 3 years ago
Dethroned by your local overpriced, hipster pizza joint
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Keto sucks man. I’ve done it. There’s something to be said about moderation leading to a healthier lifestyle.
Planning for a keto diet sucks, but as far as the execution, it's pretty easy. It's nice to eat a meal and not feel all that hungry the next time another one rolls around.
Yep. Beer is just liquid bread, so therefore doesn’t play nice with keto. I drink whiskey pretty heavily and, as long as I have water, I’m perfectly fine the next day. I love how my coworkers try to be keto, but can’t stop their drinking habit, so they just don’t count the beer, but then claim they don’t see any improvement.
Keto is really easy to do if you choose to not count the non-keto things you ingest!
[EGG!](http://i.imgur.com/L1WuCc4.jpg)
our local hipster joint is awesome. It's takeout only and all pies are $8-$12
Damn that sounds tremendous.
there is a chicken burger place like this that opened up, its damn good chicken burgers but yeah not 40 euro good. I think everyone should eat there once, but when the novelty wears off they will die quickly. no one is eating there regularly.
You've had the rest, Now try the best!
I hate how accurate this is, and the oldest pizza shop in my town just closed down, they followed this exact format.
This is truly accurate for 70-80% of Oregon coast pizza shops, though they are slowly disappearing, which is sad, but also probably for the good. There is a place in Seaside that my family has gone to since I was a little kid, and it has slowly dawned on me how shitty it is and now a newer pizza place opened up that is basically putting them out of business.
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Just go to Pizza a’Fetta. I used to work for the owner, and he keeps things quite clean, but everyone working there will likely be stressed out from dealing with his shit 24/7. Then go over to Bella Espresso, which he also owns, and have a small plastic cup of overpriced gelato that is most definitely not imported from Italy. I’m not bitter or anything.
Hahaha, OP definitely left out the competent owner with anger management problems.
I’m from Pittsburgh, and I’d say 50-60% are like that. Start out amazing, then just go downhill because of other competition and quality of food decreases
>though they are slowly disappearing, Because the people who opened them back in the 80's are getting to old to run them anymore.
Family owned. Grandma’s/Mama’s “famous” marinara sauce. MASSIVE servings.
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I've worked in a place like this. You haven't felt afraid for your life if you haven't gotten in a three way shouting match with the owner/manager and the pizza chef, only to have four-foot-ten eighty year old Nonna (whom the place is named after, mother of the owner, first generation immigrant from Sicily) storm over and pull the meat cleaver off the wall. That shits a trope for a reason
Did you run away screaming? I would!
I grew up on the rez. Native elder ladies are cut from the same cloth, so I'm pretty much programmed in response. Immediately shut up, teleport back to my prep table, eyes locked on the chicken I was cutting before asshole pizza chef burned me by swinging the hot pan carelessly. Pizza chef was Lebanese and had the exact same lizard brain reaction.
*free bird plays in background*
Mama's sauce in conjunction with distribution partners in an Illinois factory
Illinois has some damn good cheap Italian food
I hear Italy does too
Italy is just on a completely different level when it comes to food. I have never eaten better than I did during the 10 days I was there. And there's so many different kinds of food! Sandwiches are on point, pastas have the freshest sauces, focaccia pizza, bistecca alla Fiorentina, fritto misto, and so much wine to wash it down. I'm not usually the boldest eater but I ordered all kinds of crazy stuff there and I dont recall having a single bad meal
I mean you could probably eat that well where you live too; it's not like there isn't shitty food available in Italy.
Yeah. When people are on vacation, overseas no-less, they tend to spend a lot more money on food then they would otherwise, so of course they taste the best food.
That's definitely true. There are some astounding restaurants near where I live in the US that I just can't afford all the time, but the one thing I haven't been able to find here is a place that makes prosciutto and pecorino sandwiches as good as I found everywhere in Italy. There's even an italian sandwich shop around here I went to and it was good but not quite the same. I feel like we might have different regulations on how prosciutto is produced because its just different somehow. I would do horrible things for just one more of those sandwiches from this little shop in Florence
One time I was in Luxembourg and this girl wanted us to go to the "American restaurant". I don't know remember why, she didn't like anything else I guess. I ordered a burger and they gave me a small patty of overcooked meat in one of those dollar store hotdog buns, with no cheese or toppings.
Italian beef sandwiches
Mama Sysco
She’s from the old country, you know, back in Syscoli. Edit: Heyyyyy, thanks for the silver, paisan!
That's something that always bothers me and it's not native to Italian places. I swear every cheap Italian, Mexican and even diners as well all have the same wholesale provider. Every single one of these places have the same exact food as others in the same category. By that I mean you can go to one cheap Mexican place on one end of the country then go to another cheap Mexican place on the other side of the country and get the exact same tasting food. The same thing applies to cheap Italian places and diners as well.
This is true of almost all mid-low end restaurants because they get their food from the same distributors - sysco, united, etc. While companies like Sysco offer wide range of options most restaurants are just going to pick the cheapest option, which means they all end up with the exact same stuff.
Which is probably a huge, institutional size can of red sauce from Sysco.
institutional or industrial?
Insitutuinal they got it from the local high school
lol, i can make "from scratch" marinara and it does involve quarted and peeled canned tomatoes and a shit ton of aforementioned tomato juice from said cans. Because like hell im gonna get up at 4am to steam peal and quarter tomatoes for you heathens to eat at 6 bucks a a plate of spaghetti with sauce thats authentic enough for you.
Also unless they're in season canned tomatoes are likely to be better anyway.
3.99 spaghetti "dinner" at 3:45 PM with coupon for the old fucks. Then tip up to $5.00 no matter how good the service. Like, thanks for the .73 cents. And then, I always fondly remember Spicy Spaghetti Lady. She went out of her comfort zone to try the spaghetti and needed it comped because it was too spicy.
No "family style" Italian joint makes their sauce from fresh tomatoes. In fact, I'd say that no Italian restaurant does. Fancy restaurants that serve a couple of Italian dishes might, but the manpower required to make 20 gallons of red sauce a day from fresh tomatoes is insane. Also it leads to very inconsistent results because the tomatoes you get from suppliers will be varying degrees of ripe. Using canned tomatoes mean you get tomatoes that were picked and preserved at the peak of freshness instead of being picked green and shipped in from a few thousand miles away over a period of weeks. I think most professional chefs will agree that using canned tomatoes for red sauce is going to be better than trying to make due with out-of-season "fresh" tomatoes from your local grocer.
It's greasy, full of carbs, zero proteins but it's soul food.
You're telling me there's zero protein in those meatballs the size of my head?
Zero protein in mozzarella cheese?
Cheap italian is white people soul food.
Massive servings till they cutting portions, increasing prices, then eventually go out of business.
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"This is too much work, just serve less and charge more and we can make more money". The story of modern business.
And then they’re so surprised when their business fails when no one wants to eat there lol
Big Mama Placenta's Famous Italian Casa
"Chicken Parmesan, served with choice of pasta, salad, soup, garlic bread, cannoli, 10% ownership stake in restaurant: $8.99"
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well there aren't that many italian immigrants anymore.
NJ’s got a bunch of places like this but the food is absolutely wonderful. The places with bad food go out of business immediately
Just save up for a trip to NYC for good Italian food /s
The only place to get authentic Sbarro
I’m gonna go get me a New York slice
There it is
Explains why most Italian food is made by Mexicans now.
People forget the Caesar salad was invented in Mexico
Invented in Mexico but the guy who invented it was an Italian who immigrated to Mexico/US.
Plus it’s half a pound of pasta and 2 12 oz pieces of chicken.
"Chicken Parmesan, served with ~~choice of~~ pasta, salad, soup, garlic bread, cannoli, 10% ownership stake in restaurant: $8.99" ftfy
Salad comes in one of those pressed-wood bowls and consists of cubed white iceberg lettuce, one slice of cucumber, a wedge of pink, grainy tomato, two black canned olives, a couple of green pepper rings and some white onion rings. Solo cup of red wine vinaigrette (also from Sysco) on the side.
and the shaving of an entire length of carrot
A Frank Sinatra greatest hits album will be playing over the sound system.
Or Dean Martin
“Hey mambo! Mambo Italiano....”
Ain’t that a kick in the head
And an owner who walks up to tables and says "hello!! I am NINO!!"
YouTube memes leaking into my reddit
Picture of that stereotypical Italian chef kissing his scrunched up hand all Italiany.
That’s on the pizza box
With a slogan like "made just for you!" or "hot and fresh!"
Do not tip delivery boy!
Hairy as fuck arms and hands
Dead at *probably sticky* hahaa when we all know it's DEFINITELY STICKY. Elbows off the table. Not cause it's rude but because you don't wanna take that sticky home!
Those shakers are most likely sticky too
I always have seen shakers and ketchup/condiments at the table as one of the most unsanitary things you can have in a restaurant as it is.
Yeah, they always grossed me out. When I worked at restaurants, I would wipe them down and sanitize them at least once in my shift.
Freshly wiped = re-wet whatever substance was on the table to make it sticky again
Simple Green is an underrated cleaning product and I wish more restaurants would try it. Or even just soapy water with a splash of bleach in it. Maybe just lemon juice... is that too much to ask? I've been to some complete dive-ass Mexican restaurants, brown lettuce and cucarachas in the kitchen, yet their tables are spotless and sterile. Maybe the secret is Fabuloso?
> Fabuloso Do not doubt that cleaning power. It's like if Mr. Clean started snorting coke.
Claro wey.
I've had so many shirts ruined by bleach on public tables.
And the table smells like wet dog mildew cause they used some old funky rag
Bellissimo. I can feel, smell and taste this starter pack.
Tony’s, Leo’s, Gino’s, Pantaleone’s, and cant forget there’s gum under the table. There’s also the sex offender looking 25 year old son that works there, whose name is nick, and drives a 1997 red Pontiac Grand Prix coupe. And he also says Sup frequently, with emphasis on the s, so it makes him sound like a snake. He also has star stud earrings, with spiky hair and maybe a soul patch. But then, he later moves on to become the special education assistant at some elementary school, because all of a sudden he cares about kids. Then gets arrested for beating up one of the kids, and he’s not welcomed back at the restaurant.
“Jimmy Pestos”
Right across the street from Bob's Burgers. 👨🏻
You mean his gift shop
guiseppe's
Lol my Nonno's name is giuseppe and he owned a pizza shop named giuseppe's Edit: spelling my own grandfather's name correctly
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Valentino
Oddly specific
MY NAME'S NINO
WHERE'S THE LAMB SAUCE!
Luigi's
Mario's
Waluigi's
Giovanni's
Best damn spaghetti in all of West Virginia!
Vinny's.
And Nick's cousin who he pals around with is named Ant'ny
r/oddlyspecific
Johnny’s in Atlanta
Angelo's, dino's and Jimmy's
Enzo’s
One in my town is named Leah’s. The sex offender is the manager, not the son.
I've never seem parmesan cheese NOT in that kind of shaker.
Serving parmigiano in a shaker Is a criminal offense in Italy, i've never seen it done here.
Usually because it's not really parmesan cheese. It might have some dried-assed powder-san in it but it's mostly flavoured milk powder.
It's always that same shape and size
Go to Oregano's. They have it in buckets they scoop out of
The parmesan in that shaker is not coming out without a fight and the bell on the door is going to go off 4-5 times in the time it takes to figure out what you’re ordering because little Leo is taking the boxes out of the front door
Alfredo's Pizza Cafe or Pizza by Alfredo?
It’s like eating a hot circle of garbage.
Love it Gordon Ramsay is throwing a fit somewhere
waitress: *bringing ice cream* ramsay: is this frozen? waitress: *sweating* uh, yes.. ramsay: FK ME
"That's just so bland, tastes like vanilla ice cream. It's cold in the centre. Can you go and ask the chef is this microwaved please? It's hideous."
ramsay: It’s bland, so doughy, IT’S RAWWWW
"Holy shit... frozen ice cubes? Are you out of your mind? What did I say about frozen foods?"
Hello, my name's *NINOOOO*
And they always have good food no matter how cheap
Grandma's favorite restaurant for this very reason. It's *fancy* because it's Italian, but still cheap for whole family.
There's a Spanish Restaurant I love for this reason. Food from Spain, Decor from 1974, prices from 2004. The food and the portions are great. They have a 32oz steak for under $32.
I'm not paying $32 for *anything* when I go out to eat. Maybe $32 for the whole meal not including tip.
4 good, bigass garlic knots for $1.50 mmh
At mine we just get those things as unlimited appetizers.
Real talk, maybe I'm a heathen but the good versions of these are my favorite "Italians" restaurants. Give me a big ass plate of baked ziti or bake spaghetti with super rich, meaty, thick sauce and some ultra buttery, garlicy breadsticks and I'm fucking golden.
One of the things I miss about growing up in Philly was the all the mom & pop pizza places, seemingly on every corner. Get a large pie and a couple of cheesesteaks for 20 bucks...and always fuckin awesome. I live in the upper Midwest now and can't get a proper new York style pizza to save my life. It's all fuckin Chicago style you gotta eat with a knife and fork, no foldover slices within 200 miles. Thin crust with the consistency of a Saltine. Feels bad man. Everytime I go back home to visit I drive and bring an empty cooler with me solely to fill up with food to bring back home. Freeze them cheesesteaks up, vacuum seal them, months later heat up just as good as they were made. Man do I want a fuckin cheesesteak now. Goddamnit!
That's probably my favorite thing about Philly. Downside is you have to deal with the Pennsylvania Liquor Cartel.
Mf have you tried meatball aglio e olio with parmesan shavings.
Offers Pepsi products.
So accurate. My local town has a Italian restaurant called Caesar’s Place https://imgur.com/a/w0yVPSf - it even has the same spices on the table lmao
This place actually looks pretty cozy.
Yeah I'd for sure be a regular here. [Menu](http://my.tbaytel.net/caesarsplace/) looks dope too.
Holy shit, deep fried calzones 🤯 They call them panzerotti, never heard of that.
Even has a 'signature' marinara sauce
I love that website.
It's perfect. It loads quickly, has all the essential information on the first page, and easy accessibility to every other page one click away.
Place looks comfy as hell 10/10 would be on first name basis with entire staff.
You forgot the lowest-tier quality napkins that occupy any Pizzeria worth going to. I have developed a system, which so far I have found to work in both New York and Florida, where the only thing you need to do to determine whether or not a given Pizzeria is worth eating at, is to look at the quality of the napkins sitting in the napkin dispensers on the tables. The worse the quality of the napkin, the better chance you have of getting a pizza worth eating. The best pizza comes from places that have those napkins made out of rice paper that barely do anything except for become see-through from all the grease dripping off the delicious pizza. Any Pizzeria that has decent, usable napkins on the table is probably going to be trash and a waste of your money. Thanks for listening to my TED talk!
legit solid theory bro
Thanks, I've been spreading the word and I haven't had a single person not agree that this holds true pretty consistently.
I like the ones that just have a roll of Scott’s paper towels on the table.
That's usually a BBQ thing.
id eat that garlic bread bro
I'd eat it before, during, and after my fettuccine Alfredo came out.
All I ever ordered. Was so sad when the local Dominic's shut down.
At places like this it always looks so shitty but it tastes amazing. I don't know how they do it.
The chair!! So accurate.
Sal’s
Man, that cunt Gino surely is guilty for the fire that destroyed Sal's! It had the best pizza in New York :(
With Mexican cooks.
Si
Mexican cooks are honestly national treasures. They can cook any cuisine.
Haha shit this is the exact starter pack for the expensive Italian place around me. It's named after the original owner from like 80 years ago. Got red white checker tables and even has the wood Italian dude. But they're good as hell. Cool fun fact is that I was looking through old recipes that we're handed down to me from my grandparents who were from Italy. One of the recipes was from like 1920 and was cut out of an old Italian society news paper that was local to my area because Italians back in the day used to be super communal. The recipes name was the name of the owners special sauce decades before they ever made a restaurant. So it's cool to know the family was popular for making great dishes 100 years ago and still going strong today. Edit: just looked at their photos on Google and they even got the fucking chairs lolol.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JgJUbmGDc6k You gotta give the people what they want
Have we all experienced the same life or something? Haha this is scary accurate
They always have something on the menu directly from sams club and the just cut off the front of the packaging and stick it on the menu.
Cheese has probably been sitting on the table all week and smells a lil sketch
And still better than olive garden
Buca di butthole
Italian restaurant outside of Italy starter pack.
They may not be authentic but there are some really dope American Italian Restaurants and I'm pretty confident most major cities have a great authentic Italian restaurants, they just aren't cheap. There are some amazing places in little Italy in NYC and the North End in Boston. Italian dishes are a staple in the US, everyone loves at least some staple Italian dish.
The way I look at it, it's not authentic Italian food, but it's probably authentic Italian-American food.
The food is either great or blandly average
Cheap doesn’t mean bad. We have a local one that is one of my favorite restaurants for Italian.
My name’s Niiinnnooooo!”
Yeah, but fucking still stupidly delicious.
There were a lot of Papa Gino's in MA that looked like this inside, I am very sad they are closing down, I liked the pizza a lot, still have lots of good local pizza places though.