Muhammad Khalifa
Google
Like many (all?) of my experiences at a Patachou eatery, the service and ambiance are good but the food leaves much to be desired. The focaccia was underdeveloped, under seasoned, and undercooked. That, combined with an olive oil that had a distinctly oxidized aftertaste, made this the only bread order of which I've ever refused a second plate. The Caesar salad was better, in that there were no obvious detractors. Our first pizza was the "cacio e pepe", though I'm not sure why a goat cheese & asparagus pizza (normally with jowl bacon, we had ours without) should be named after an exclusively cheese-and-pepper pasta. Sadly the crust/dough couldn't redeem any misnomers - the best parts had the texture and consistency of a fry bread where it had been brushed with oil, but inadequate chew/stretch or bubbling to be accurate to Napolese-style pizza and a collapsed, nearly cracker like crumb. The second pizza, the burrata margherita, should have saved the day, as the sauce, burrata, and basil were great. But it is served uncut despite obviously needing to be sliced before eating (they give you a useless half-serated steak knife to mangle it with), and the technical demerits of the dough compounded the frustration. The resulting bites were representative of the meal overall: technically edible, far from incredible.