I ordered the Pizza Bianca with cheese and artichokes and it was covered with pesto, which made it very greasy and salty. Having spent $9 for a personal pizza I was especially ticked off. When will Italian restaurants in the US realize that pizza and pesto are a heavy and toxic mess, which is why they do not exist together anywhere in Italy. Pesto is a very strong flavor which overpowers anything that it touches. Pesto works well with pasta , but not with pizza already salted with artichokes and salty cheese.
It was especially frustrating that there was no mention of the pesto on the menu' for the Pizza Bianca, only that there were herbs on it. I wouldn't have ordered the Pizza bianca had pesto been listed as an ingredient on the menu.
This is the second time I received a meal unlike the menu' description. A few months ago I ordered a sandwich and the chef ran out of bread and subbed focaccia bread for the sandwich bread. I am really not someone who dislikes salt, but the sandwich was salty to the point of being inedible. At this point I'd be a masochist if I ate at Broad Street a third time.
I will also add that it took me at least 15 minutes to even place my order at the cashier.
This evening there was live music playing and while the musicians were very talented, the acoustics were too loud and metalllic to hear the instruments or fully appeciate the sound.
It also irks me that their regular drink prices are not listed anywhere, not on the menu' nor on the chalkboard.
I won't be returning to the Broad Street Cafe for food anytime soon..
Pros: Good Music, decent atmosphere
Cons: Slow Service, High Prices
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