I left a comment on the Anti-Pundit's posting about Avanti's, which spurred me to my own posting on this place.
What's so great about Avanti's?
If I'm getting a gondola, I'll take LaGondola or Michael's any day of the week.
The "italian" food? Uhhhh....no thanks. My old joke was to sing the jingle: "Avanti's is fake italian food".
The one halfway decent thing IMO: the pizza. And hell, if I'm going to get pizza I'll take Mickies over Avanti's anytime.
And the delivery? Spotty would be way too generous. The last time my in-laws ordered two pizzas for delivery, one was wrong. They've screwed up my delivery orders at least three times that I remember. I've pretty much given up on them.
This place seems to be the perfect example of a place that has been living off it's press clippings. Packed parking lots don't really motivate a business to react to customer complaints.
I was never a big fan. Whenever my coworkers wanted to get delivery from there, I went with the pasta salad.
ReplyDeleteI think their popularity is partially due to good prices.
But, I will say in the last few years I've discovered their pizza, which is pretty good, and have enjoyed the lasagna and ravioli for lunch.
Although, the Main Street location has some servers who seem to not understand the idea of a lunch "hour".