Buona Forchetta – South Park

Incredible food!! So many great options, as well as wine selections. Loved coming here. Tried a pizza as a starter for the first time ever and it was phenomenal. Saved room for our main course, pasta and salmon to share and both were fantastic! Those mushrooms were out of this world magical!!! No pun intended. Many thanks!! Can’t wait to visit soon.

This restaurant is…not good. I don’t understand the high praise, have you all never eaten a pizza before?

We ordered the following items: the beet salad, meatballs, and the Eva pizza.

The beet salad consisted of greens, greens, greens, some cheese, a few stray pieces of flavorless lentils, and about 4 small chunks of beets. This is not a beet salad. This is a house salad with a few pieces of beets. Although the dressing was not that bad, there were so few beets and the lentils added no flavor and barely any texture at all to this dish. Pistachios would be a much better complement to the beets and would actually have some texture and flavor (although this doesn’t help if there aren’t any beets in the salad in the first place). I don’t understand why we were charged $15 for a plate of greens.

Next, the meatballs. The sauce was actually not bad, but the meatballs were extremely dry and not very flavourful. I don’t understand how an Italian restaurant could mess up meatballs, but then again, pizza is also really hard to mess up.

Lastly, the pizza, or should I say, the floppy bread with sliced meats on it? This was not good pizza. At all. The bread was not only flavorless (please salt your bread), but the color was way too light and the pizza was SO soggy. There was barely any cheese on the pizza, and the meat was slapped on and kept falling off. This pizza was advertised as having hot honey, but we could not taste it at all. The pizza was also presented in an extremely sloppy way. It was cut into 4 very irregular and weird pieces, and the pepperoni pieces were all stuck together.

How can an Italian restaurant known for their pizza serve such a monstrosity to their guests?

Not only was the food extremely middling, the service was also nothing special. If anything, we felt that the staff at the restaurant were arrogant due to the popularity of the restaurant and didn’t really seem to care about us at all. I normally wouldn’t comment on this as I feel that food is more important than service, but it’s pretty disappointing to go to a highly rated restaurant with poor food AND service.

I know my review was harsh, but I felt harshness was necessary to counteract all the raving reviews of this restaurant. I am rating this restaurant 1 star because I could not find any redeeming qualities that would make me recommend this restaurant to anyone.

As out of towners, we were extremely disappointed as this was the “best” pizza San Diego has to offer. We should’ve honestly spent our last night eating another meal at Mitch’s Seafood (a restaurant that actually deserves rave reviews).