Friday in my office is referred to, IMO sort of offensively, as “Oriental Friday.” This designation for the entire day is in honor of the Friday lunch menu which is almost always Chinese, Japanese, or, more recently, Thai. The Japanese restaurant we order from uses poor quality ingredients (and always seems to get my order wrong), the Chinese place makes just plain miserable food, but the Thai food (from Thai Basil) is sublime. I had wished to end Working Through Lunch Week on a high note with the Thai food, but alas, forces beyond my control chose indeed to betray the “Oriental” tradition of every Friday before this one and order pizza instead. Pizza! On a Friday! Zut!
We ordered from a joint called Planet Pizza. Considering they have dedicated their entire world to the pizza pie, you’d think they would make a half decent one. But no. (I actually ordered a calzone today, but I am familiar enough with their pizza to make this assertion about their pie.)
FRIDAY’s lunch–Planet Pizza, Greenwich, CT
Calzone with broccoli and mushrooms
This calzone is gigantic. That you can say for it. The mushrooms are not canned. That also you can say for it. (An aside: I never understood the canned mushroom concept. If ever there were an H20-unfriendly vegetable, the mushroom is it. What genius thought it would be awesome to drown mushrooms in water and seal them in tin? Now, onward…) The cheese was sort of sour (not sure if it was the mozzarella or the ricotta). The bottom of the calzone was soggy. The crust was flavorless. The sauce on the side was–there is no other word for it–insipid. Sigh! I don’t know about you, but I am totally over Working Through Lunch Week.
Moral of this one-week story: If you are on a road trip and pass through Greenwich around lunchtime. I advise you to keep driving to the next city. There has to be better food on the horizon. I hate to be so negative on the town. It really is lovely here. Quaint streets. Some beautiful residential architecture. A great little museum. And the trees growing bags of cash are almost in bloom this time of year. It has got a lot of things going for it, it really does. Lunch delivery is just not one of them.
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