Christina Willis

Review of Popolos

I wish I could give this place a better review. Th...

I wish I could give this place a better review. Their staff are really great, but besides that there is nothing to brag about...

I ordered a lasagna which also came with a soup (clam chowder). Interestingly enough, the day before I got to experience Monterey's clam chowder from 4 different places (tasting). Popolo's clam chowder was overly salty, lacked clams and primarily was flavorless (well, besides salt, but I consider salt a "flavor-masker"). Lasagna also left much to be desired. The quality of meat was poor, you really don't even know what sort of meat they are putting there... It was very fatty, and so were the breadsticks, soaked in butter... Ugh...

My friend's vegetarian pizza had slices of tomato on top and almost no tomato sauce. And this place specializes in pizza??? Another friend's pizza lacked green peppers that her ordered extra, so he got them sprinkled on top after pizza arrived. Green, fresh, crunchy peppers, just from under a kitchen knife... On a pizza that was already cooked... Sad :(

The place was understaffed over the Labor Day weekend, so we had to wait for over an hour for our food. Staff, however, did check on us regularly. Not their fault...

Doubt that I will be back...