Zak on Insider Pages 2 months ago
11/20/2022, 07:47 AM
Palatable pizza, sloppy service
Pizzeria Luigi can be described the same way I once described a trip to Rome: Exciting at first, then confusing and, lastly, downright frustrating.The constant pace of business at this small, stucco establishment was what drew me in when I first moved to San Diego a year back. I ordered a couple of slices up front for a fiver, and munched happily away at some hour-old pizza that seemed to be all the rage. In the time since, I've grown considerably less content with Luigi's, which has tumbled low on my list (just beneath Little Caesar's 5-Dollar Hot-N-Ready).I don't fault Luigi's for their pizza, which is actually delicious when they can manage to avoid scorching it like Vesuvius scorched Pompeii. The principal problem lies in the way the employees treat customers like unwanted children. Whether a customer orders on the spot or phones it in makes no difference; there's no getting around the same employee who, it seems, is required to treat all customers with the same degree of contempt.Even if you manage to survive the trampling feet of hungry customers and the cocky attitude of the register clerk, you'll be leaving empty-handed if you didn't remember Luigi's cash-only policy... which in the 21st century, makes about as much sense as bleeding ailing patients with leeches.Like Rome, as I said, Pizzeria Luigi is no big deal when your separate all the hype from the facts.