Marble Cake

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Sal's Cafe

Sal's Cafe

400 C St Sw, Washington, DC 20024, United States

Cafe • Delis • Coffee • American


"So I 'm rating this based upon the pizza I purchased for lunch on 4/6/22. I 've never noticed this place prior to COVID so I wanted to try it out after returning to the office. I saw that they offered NY Style Pizza so while being skeptical about getting that NY quality in DC, I wanted to try it. Unfortunately the quality and service was lacking and there 's clearly room for improvement...if they care to improve. 1. Pizza quality. Not good. Flavors are mild at best and nothing screams deliciousness. I got a pepperoni and sausage pizza slice and buffalo chicken pizza slice. They use lower quality pre-cubed sausage pieces you 'd find at a school cafeteria and in the frozen food section in the grocery store instead of actual cooked fresh ground sausage. That took away from the flavor immediately. The slice was also way too sauced, and the sauce didn 't have much flavor. The buffalo chicken pizza was similar, where the chicken clearly wasn 't fresh and seemed like it was some bagged Tyson 's cubed chicken put on top of a pizza. The buffalo sauce had no flavor and the other sauce (blue cheese? Ranch? also lacked flavor enough so I couldn 't tell what it was. Additionally a buffalo chicken pizza shouldn 't have a tomato sauce base and if it does, it should be MUCH less so the tomato doesn 't overwhelm the rest of the flavors. Suffice to say, this was also over sauced which led to the next issue. Each slice was gloopy and soggy. This could have been mitigated by allowing the reheating of the slice to crisp up the dough, but the 30 seconds they heated up the slice (yea, 30 seconds was it. Didn 't do much either was clearly not enough time to mitigate the soggy dough. Thusly, the pizza slices did not hold together and sagged very sadly when eaten. The only redeeming thing was the crust which did have a little flavor and was crispy. Somehow that didn 't translate to the rest of the slice. If they reheated the slices for like 3-5 minutes (at least you 'd have a better experience and an actually hot slice of pizza. 2. Customer service. Not entirely terrible but I must have told the dude I wanted the pepperoni and sausage slice at least 5 times before he got it. Checkout also wanted to charge me for a drink but I told them no since I didn 't have one (if two slices and a drink was a special they didn 't inform me of that . All in all if you want pizza in a pinch the slices they offer are edible, but honestly I 'd order dominos over this place."