Lunch For Four
Zizzi, Eastbourne
Putting aside all the crazy exhausting cooking that's been taking over the blog lately, the weekend was actually quite eventful. And the Saturday in particular, a glorious sunny day that was just calling for a long bike ride. And while I'll tell you more about this bike ride tomorrow, today I want to discuss our lunch spot in our final destination - Eastbourne.
As one may assume, we were hungry as hell after cycling for good hour and a half. While roaming on the main street, in one of the alleys we set eyes on Zizzi, a small, cute looking restaurant. Several huge parasols were keeping the tables in a very tempting shade and we, three carnivores and a vegetarian, decided to give it a try.
We ordered two classic pizzas and we used the option to make them big. We had a Classic Quattro Stagioni and a Classic Fiorentina. For our greatest (and pleasant) surprise the food arrived less than 5 minutes after ordering, fresh from the oven. And this is where the nice part ended. The pizza was as thin as a piece of cheap toilet paper. Yes, indeed, very crispy on the sides, but equally crispy in the middle as well. So crispy that would actually put to shame a split in tho toasted pita bread (and this is NOT a compliment). The Quattro Stagioni was cheap on the materials, the only thing they made sure to put enough of was the cheap chemically tasting tomato sauce. One of those that cheap shops sell in tubes, not even a jar-ed one. On the other hand, the Fiorentina was almost dangerous to eat. The eggs were so runny that not even the egg white had been cooked (NOT cool). That made the whole area around the eggs not suitable to eat. That left us with some boiled spinach on a piece of bread too crispy to be tasty. The promised riserva cheese was not there, nor the awful tomato base, for better or worse. A tastless disgrace, this is what I would call these sad attempts for pizza.
Not being completely put off the restaurant we decided to give the desserts a try. Roocky mistake, I must admit. We ordered a Tiramisu Sundae and Nut and Caramel Sundae, both described as mixture of gelato, cream and other goods. In exchange for our 5.50 per dessert we received a metal martini glass with half a scoop of almost fully melted ice cream and some identified objects around it. I'm not sure if it looked worse than it tasted or the other way around but it was one of the worst desserts that I have ever had. And I eat dessert almost every time I eat out.
The whole experience costed us 10 per persin, which was way too much for the terrible taste of everything. Definitely would NOT go there ever again and would do my best to prevent others from making the same mistake as we did. At this point, I think I would prefer eating at fast food chain rather than stepping in this mock of a restaurant again.
Food: 1/ 10
Service: 4/ 10
Interior: 8/ 10
Location: 2/ 10
Pricing: 1/ 10
Overall Grade: 1/ 10
Would we go back there: Not in hundred years!
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