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“Below average fancy pizza place, Not what I was...”

written by chunky_lafunga on 22/06/2011

Father's day gift was a trip to Westfields with food thrown in for good measure. Westfields has vast choice of culinary options, maybe too many as it took us about an hour of walking around to make a choice.
We decided to give 'Fire & Stone' (pizzeria with international toppings) a go as it seemed a good option and ticked all the right boxes for variety as we all wanted something different individually. We were given the seats of our choice and were soon digging into the starters that we ordered. what a let down.. the spicy mixed nuts were I would say 95% peanuts with spices sprinkled on top (Was expecting something similar to Nando's !), 'Crisp fried breaded baby mozzarella's' again was expecting similar or better quality than my previous encounters, the cheese was just too chewy and.. hot water came out when you bit them. However my wife did enjoy the 'Crispy wonton king prawns'. The plates arrived for our pizza's soon afterwards, 2 had to be exchanged as they had scuff marks on them and looked unclean.
The pizzas that followed half an hour later weren't too bad but neither were they great (pizza express, cafe uno..have fed us with better). Maybe we were expecting too much..but the bill at £85 (4 Pizzas, 4 starters & SOFT drinks) suggested we weren't, and a 10% service charge automatically added just added to the regret, I would have preferred if I had choice on this but apparently we don't!
On the plus side the staff were pretty good and accommodating, and of course, pizza preference varies person to person.