I noticed this one crop up only a week ago. It was what used to be Ciciolina, the Italian restaurant with decent food, a BYO budget and the most gaudy interior decorations EVER. Pink on the inside, the decorations looked like the paper mache monster had chewed on too much newspaper and spat them out onto its walls in globs that stuck and had begun to grow into something festy and sinister.
Sadly, M.O.A.N. has not managed to rid itself of the paper mache monster. It has however added a pretty funky little chest table to its entrance, immediately already rendering it a cut above its predecessor. As for everything else... it's pretty same-same.
The cuisine is the same, Italian, specialising in pizzas and risottos. We arrived on a Tuesday night, which in wonderful tight-ass Tuesday format, meant that every pizza on the list was $10 each. Not a bad deal.
The service was great to begin with... then it started to slip. Once food was on our table we were instantly ignored. We requested a new bottle of water. It never came. We requested the bill. It took about 5 minutes and then we had to call them 10 minutes later after leaving our money on the table to have it picked up for change. And let's not begin to discuss our request to take away the rest of the salad we couldn't finish.
But onto the food. The pizza was good, well cooked and a good size for three small stomachs. If I were a man, I'd be disappointed. The salad was nice, but for something advertised as a roast vegetable salad it was severely lacking the "roasted vegetable" element. Most of it was overgrown with rocket. There was perhaps a 1/3 of a carrot in there and even less pumpkin and zucchini.
An improvement on its predecessor? Sure. But not by much.
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