So I purchased a group buy that included a gourmet large pizza, pizza bread and two coke cans.
Because I have a great Dominos within walking distance I've only ever eaten Gourmet at Crust Pizza which I like a lot.
So I was quite disappointed in the quality of the food I got, and while It was worth the money I paid for it, I would never ever pay full price for it.
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What would you pay for this?
Doesn't look very Gourmet, but the garlic bread looks ok :) Suppose it depends how much you paid for it.
Looks comparable to La Porchetta which is good but not Crust/Pizza Capers quality.
Looking at the La Porchetta menu looks like a medium ham so $8.20 + $4.50 for a small garlic pizza + 2 cokes ($3.30 each) $6.60. So that's $19.30.
Where'd ya get it?
Its from Tomato Brothers, a place I've heard good things about in the past.
It cost me $12, which is a good price, but normally it would cost $34.95.
And the lady who took my order and made my order knew I had the voucher and knew about everything.
She also said to "please come again soon". So I can't see why they would make a bad pizza on purpose.
I've been to the one in Clayfield and thought it was pretty good, although that was about 4 years ago.
Average looking stuff to me. And yeah $20 sounds about right. But considering I'm the asian bargain hunter will never pay full price and no more than $15 for it lol.
That is average looking pizza at best, I would expect something like Pizza Capers for sure.
BTW, I like your mouse pad ;)
I need a bargain on that(the goliathus mousepad)!
I've got an older version of this http://umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=24&…
Its great because when I get it dirty I just put it in the washing machine :P
I ended up getting http://umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=24&… the goliathus was too big!
Wow, $40 for the destructor!
I've made my mind on the goliathus ages ago, but since it won't make a huge difference, I'm just waiting for it to be cheaper than $15-16 for the 'standard'(medium) size. :D
pizza looks horrible, very brown on sides
i would pay $20 for all
I've had pizza that's burnt on it before and it's from increased heating (quick cook) vs a slower cook. A pizza place I used to frequent near uni had half price pizzas on Thursday nights. It's my guess that due to the lines of people ordering they'd crank up the heat to cook the pizza faster because only on Thursdays would I have a pizza with a more burnt top. That's my theory anyway. I cook pizza from scratch at home and it takes about 13 minutes on about 200°C.
Was it busy there when you ordered?
Nope. I was the only one there besides one family who were dining in. It was 1PM on a working day so that makes sense.
She was just standing around doing nothing, and as soon as she saw me she handed me my food, I'm guessing because I was holding a piece of paper.
Its a shame because my local Dominos will do a better pizza for $6.95 EVERY DAY. And even when we had the 2 for $7 Dominos pizza vouchers they were still good.
Maybe my pizza selection was bad, it sounds good…
(Raging Carnivore
- a rich tomato base with
mozza, slow roasted beef,
crispy bacon, chorizo,
pepperoni and slivers of leg
ham.)
Far too many variables to come to any kind of conclusion about Tomato brothers. I went to the one in Rosalie about 3 years ago and it was decent. Definitely did not cost $34.95 either, I am never stingey about dining out but that is just a ridiculous price.
Man that looks shite!
I like crusts in Sydney otherwise cant go wrong with Sophias in melbourne
I paid $18 for a steak pizza, it was nice except the base was almost wafer thin, Id not return to that place, if that's what your getting at full price, for a voucher, I wouldn't make a hassle about it, which is exactly what I did to the place that sold me the steak pizza lol
$5.50?
Seriously, I don't know how it tastes of course but it looks like a McCains job. I could go to the best pizza place in Brisbane (UQ cafe btw, outside the cinema) and get an awesome tasting pizza for little over a tenner.
For Brisbanites, heaps of awesome pizza deals around: Vapianos does 2 for 1 deals all the time, bringing the cost down to less than 10 bucks a large (and great tasting) pizza. Stella Rosa on Queen St mall also sent us a flyer for a 2 for $9 pizza deal for lunch. Of course lots of Dominos do lunch deals for 4.95, pimp your own pizza on the interweb. Just a heads up.
Is Vapiano any good?, I read mixed reviews for that place and I've stayed away from those deals.
To be honest, that is worth around $5. If i paid 5 i would shrug my shoulders and say, least its only 5. 2 cans of coke is worth 80 cents? even less if u just got a bottle from the grocers. the pizza and the bread looks crap.
And i've had some pretty average group buy pizzas myself, i should show you the pizza from Robbie Vita i got from ouffer, its rubbish and he calls it gourmet and its just a joke. Even with the voucher i felt ripped off. so you dont always win, but you certainly know where not to go next time:)
agreed, there was hardly any toppig on it. guess that business wont last!
That's definitely not "gourmet". I've had nicer looking pizzas from the cheapy $6.95 place down the road. The garlic bread looks like there's nothing on it. I'm pretty fussy but it doesn't look too great really. I think it's only really worth what you paid for it - $34.95 is dreaming.
Your right the garlic bread pizza was very basic. What I can tell you is the Dominos garlic bread pizza beats it 100x. Can somebody spike the garlic bread supply with blue dye so we can have it again? :). But either way, garlic bread in general is better.
Even if they normally make better pizzas I won't be coming back, what a wonderful way to ensure they will never have a customer in the future.
But no joke, any type of Dominos pizza tastes better then this, and Dominos is only a little smaller in size.
Compared to Crust where you get a huge big yummy pizza for the same price.
$5-6
what kind of pizza was it supposed to be anyway sam…
vegetarian…thats how bad they screwed it up xD
(Raging Carnivore
- a rich tomato base with
mozza, slow roasted beef,
crispy bacon, chorizo,
pepperoni and slivers of leg
ham.)
I'd eat the first one, looks like a dog's breakfast though. The second one looks like complete shite and I wouldn't feed it to my dog for breakfast.
How did it taste?
Though I'd have to admit that pizza looks terrible. I've seen better Premium pizzas from Eagle Boys…
It must've been hastily made or perhaps they got an apprentice chef to make it.
I would have thought the pizza would have been seen by other staff if there was an apprentice hiding out the back somewhere. (Only saw one staff member and she was not busy)
It tasted ok but burnt. The ingredients seemed to be good quality but didn't taste special.
I would normally say something, but the person i called to make the order and that served me was the same person, and I think that same person was the one that cooked it. Complaining seems pointless when she would full know what she was giving to me.
Ah well.
The tomato sauce on your pizza has turned into barbecue sauce. No surprise it tasted burnt. :P
But pizza hut's from this post seems to have more crust, less topping, and doesn't look yummy at all. So I'd say yours is probably worth around $6-$7 for the pizza, but definitely not full price.
I worked at Pizza Hut briefly when I was at uni many many moons ago. One word recommendation for you all: DON'T.
Totally agree, never worked there but have eaten pizza hut for 20 years.
Had to stop as its just terrible, dominoes is better now and thats saying something.
Sad to say it but I have to agree Pizza Hut are on the slide.
Wow worse hawaiian i've ever seen
LOL!!!! f'ing hilarious!!!!!! LOLOLOL @ that thing that looks like pre school cooking class! and they couldn't even roll the dough out even or at least in a more circular shape. Looks like a burnt blob of fail to me.
But seriously, I fail to understand how most group buy restaurants/eateries price their meals. Seriously… $3.50 for a CAN of coke… wtf???? that's daylight robbery. You can legally get the ACCC on their ass for overcharging consumers.
Seriously… $3.50 for a CAN of coke… wtf???? that’s daylight robbery.
For smaller businesses, they're only hurting themselves. If they charge too high without offering anything unique, they'll only encourage patrons to not return. Perhaps this is one of the reasons we're seeing many of the over-charging restaurants on group-buy sites?
You can legally get the ACCC on their ass for overcharging consumers.
As far as I understand, businesses can charge whatever they like, so I'm not sure if what they're doing is illegal. But if there is some sort of regulation on pricing, I think the bigger players should be reported first. Yes hoyts/event cinemas, I'm looking at ya.
Ah wow, I just realised its not a real circle LOL.
And pauly, it wouldn't surprise me if group buy business's have an unusually high bankruptcy/close rate.
They honestly can't be making much of a profit on the $12 I spent, and unless the lady had her eyes painted on I can't see how she could hand me that hoping I would come back.
I'm not aware of any stupid Harvey Norman shoppers who go on the internet and buy group buy vouchers etc, but they seem to think we are those kinds of people.
$1.34