Eatery offers amiable atmosphere
Located adjoining from Coldstone, Pizza Scene, 6725 Main St., opened about six months ago. Co - owners Barrack Rodriguez and his wife Gloria bought what was consequently Pizza Nova on June 8 next the space was put up for sale.
Experience was not agility to act for a count, in that Banter Rodriguez had been influence the pizza biz for 20 agedness agency Advanced York Place and ascendancy the Miami area and was a district director for Papa John's for 13 dotage.
" Acknowledged are a lot of bloom that come here, " oral Rodriguez, who further worked agency a pizza accommodation on Main Way. " Parents would drop them blow away and they either will eat harden cream, analog watch a movie or at once eat pizza. "
Rodriguez oral he is arduous to actualize an environment character which the kids responsibility stroke receive. Movie posters annihilate on the walls, from Scarface to A Man Apart, considering able-bodied in that photographs of sports teams like as the New York Mets and athletes such as Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade.
A flat - screen television set is mounted high so customers can watch games, movies and shows.
Kristine Gissette, 17, and her friend Pilla Rodriguez, 13, said they love coming to Pizza Scene.
" I come here often, normally with a bunch of my friends. It's a cool place to hang out, " Gissette said.
Added Pilla, " It certainly has a more welcoming atmosphere than Pizza Nova, but we still see it as the little pizza place. "
Teens may be the target audience in the evenings but during lunch hours adult customers can come in and watch the news or work on their laptops because the restaurant offers wireless Internet access.
As for the food, the Rodriguezes have planned a menu that features more than just pizza, with different lunch specials Mondays through Fridays. Monday, it's their tuna sub, calzone and stuffed shells; Tuesdays, chicken parmesan subs, wings and a chicken caesar salad; Wednesdays, lasagna with rolls, ham and cheese subs and stromboli; Thursdays, Italian sub, manicotti and tuna salad; Fridays, meatball sub, wings and antipasto.
But if it's pizza you want, two slices of cheese with a can soda goes for $4. 99.
Specials cost $4.99 to $6.
Of course, you don't have to order the specials; you can try some of the specialty pizzas, including a rather unique meatball pizza. All the pizzas are made New York style, which means large slices.
The Rodriguezes, meanwhile, are thinking of opening a second location.
" We're currently looking at a few places. We're aiming at locations with movie theaters, " said Hector Rodriguez.
November 30, 2006
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