pizza

A pizzeria without pizza

After weeks (or maybe months) of renovations Italian restaurant/pizzeria chain Da Marco opened their outlet in Xujiahui this week. I walked by the place many times looking at it while it was under construction, and today I decided to check out their Italian pizza's. Da Marco's is well-known for these, and over the years was chosen by several bloggers as having the best pizza in Shanghai (among others by Dan Washburn of Shanghaiist fame). The restaurant was almost full at 12:30 when we...
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Fake Melrose pizza?

This afternoon I had lunch with Sam Flemming in my office, and we ordered two pizza's from Melrose Pizza. I like their pizza's, and delivery is always quick. I just received a flyer in my mailbox with a special promotion offer, two medium pizza's for RMB 99, so we decided to go for that. While ordering we mentioned the promotion, but when the delivery guy arrived he wanted to charge us RMB 155. The receptionist came to my office to tell me I had to pay more, so I walked with her to the entrance...
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