I once saw a t-shirt online that said “Pizza is the best.” I certainly couldn’t agree more. It is one of my favorite food groups. I could eat it every day. As long as I have coffee, pizza is the only other thing I need to ingest in my life on a regular basis. I have tried many kinds from many places. But Mystic Pizza was the first and perhaps only pizza I have tried that has been in the movies.
Mystic Pizza was a popular movie in 1988 that featured Julia Roberts as a young struggling waitress trying to find her way in the world. It was actually filmed on location at the real pizzeria the movie was named for located in Mystic, Connecticut. I first came to visit during the summer of 2009 and recently went back during October 2011.
My first visit I was so excited just to be going. I love going to the locations of real events and this place looks the same as it did in 1988. It is in great shape and has movie memorabilia all over the place. At first I wasn’t even thinking of how the food was going to be, I was just happy to be there. Then I placed my order: a pie with black olives, mushrooms, and gorgonzola cheese. My mouth is watering right now thinking about it. When it came to my table that first time it appeared fake to me. It had the perfect golden colored crust and a smell that seemed like delicious food infused perfume as I inhaled. Those first bites were even better than I could have dreamed. I just closed my eyes and fought back tears of pure joy.
After such a hearty meal I walked around the area a bit. Mystic is such an adorable town even at night. It is like being in a movie even when cameras aren’t around. There is this great ice cream shop a few blocks down where homemade ice cream is being handed out as fast as it can be scooped out. It is probably among the best I have ever had. It over hangs a drawn bridge, which is where I sat to eat my ice cream taking in every detail of my mini-vacation.
When I went back this past year I was so excited it was on my agenda from the moment I knew I would be in town visiting friends. I just had to get my hands on this pizza. Walking back in to this familiar place I was thrilled with the sights and smells. I knew what I was ordering without even looking at the menu. But apparently you can’t repeat history. This time my pizza was not the heavenly creation I had longed for. It was under-cooked. Even though we sent it back to the kitchen it was still cold when we got it. Our service was not good this second time around despite it being a lot less crowded. Something was amiss and it was devastating. Finally I just gave up.
Even though I had this bad experience as I write this and relive my memories I still am inspired by my first time and am hopeful that when I am in town again Mystic Pizza will live up to my expectations. After that first visit I would have placed Mystic Pizza easily as one of my top five favorite pizza places of all time. With a statistic like that I have to give it a second chance. We all deserve that.
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Restaurant 101 this is the definition everything that I was served given to go was a scam I have never said nor thought anything like this before about food this is process this is not edible this is old it’s brown it’s I am just I specifically asked if they have a burger that is a big juicy type of burger like a pub burger and she said yes and it should’ve been a tip off that she didn’t ask how I wanted it cooked because I specifically told her that I was looking for a big juicy rare burger and she served me a flapjack that is thinner than what you would get on a McDonald’s hamburger on the dollar menu the french fries taste and feel and have the texture and flavor of french fries that have been out for days they are rubber hard sticks and no french fry can get that way until it’s been exposed to the air for days and days and days artichoke appetizer for $12 the breaded fried appetizer is in edible it smells like the inside of a can when you open the container I could smell the can smell it’s it’s it’s absolutely what anyone would look at an automatically know that this is the definition of what you have to make sure you throw out this is food that has never been meant to be served to a human it it’s the worst thing I’ve ever witnessed cannot believe that somebody looked at this it doesn’t even resemble an art cart because it’s so incredibly old it’s so old it says if all of the food has been sitting out for days and they just threw it in something again and served it I can’t believe it I just can’t believe it I can’t believe they’re serving this I am I am in shock and I’m angry because it was incredibly expensive I spent $65 somehow and I gave her a 25% tip because she had me so excited about the food so all I did was stand there and wait for my food and she made $12 and when I was about to leave and had everything in my hand and I asked if I could have a plastic cup of water and then I changed my mind because I saw the staff going back-and-forth the whole time I was waiting going back-and-forth to this fountain for soda the fountain pay and I understand that they charge for soda in a restaurant I get that but to charge me after I it’s just she charge me $4.50 for a small plastic cup of ice with some flat Diet Coke that taste like the inside of a metal canister there isn’t one thing except for the salad looks OK but it actually looks really decent other than that I literally ripped off the only thing that I can eat out of the bag of pretzels that I got from the from the snack rack . I really wish I could post a picture of this somehow that’s what would really blow your mind you have to see it to believe it you won’t believe that they could serve this !!! Honestly I want my money back and I have never in my life said anything like that about a restaurant about food at all I was so hungry and I still am and I am pissed because I ended up spending over 70 almost $80 by the time I was done actually 8450 when you count the flat Cup of soda and just to know that I’ve been standing there watching these five or six or seven guys that are all hanging around like there’s five or six cooks and I was the only patron and I should have known I should’ve known I didn’t look at the reviews I’m not alone this food is horrible and I was robbed I want my money back and I’m dead serious through this and I just thought this is absolutely how can she do this and then I realized it’s Mystic Pizza writing it I have never in my entire life had such horrible food serve to me that I feel as though I was scammed straight up scammed I asked if the burger was going to be a good juicy burger she said it was the type that I was craving and this is a frozen slapjack it is the same if not worse than what they serve on a $2.50 hamburger from McDonald’s it’s just that thin except for at McDonald’s at least the bread would be fresh taste and feel and our rubberized they have been out guarantee they’ve been re-cooked at least two or three times they have been sitting out all day four days they’re literally hard and rubber!!!!
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