Alburtis Tavern — Restaurant in Alburtis

If I could give 0 stars, I would. I wish I would’ve taken pictures of the food, but I honestly didn’t think about it because of how angry I was.

Ordered takeout that consisted of a ribeye, margherita pizza, and nachos. My husband picked it up and brought it home. The wait time wasn’t too long from when I called in the order and when he picked it up.

The margherita pizza was immediately disappointing in appearance. There were slices of nearly raw tomato on top with flecks of basil cooked into the cheese. It was clear the pizza had been sitting out for a while because of how hard the cheese was. The worst part was biting into the pizza and realizing that it had a white, garlic sauce. I have never had a margherita pizza with white sauce. I googled it to be sure I wasn’t being picky, and can’t find anything about garlic/white sauce being used on a pizza that’s considered “margherita”.

The worst was the ribeye that was supposed to be cooked medium. It was nearly raw and extremely fatty - I don’t even want to label it rare. It was not edible.

The nachos looked fine.

I called ahead to let the hostess know I wasn’t happy and asked if I should bring the food back in order to get a refund. I was told yes. I drove to the restaurant and waited for 5 min or so in a crowded area with patrons waited to be seated, with the food I wasn’t happy with.

Rachel came out and reviewed my concerns. I told her about the above. She said that “that’s how we do our margherita pizza, the description says garlic aioli” - it does not. And if it does - it needs to be updated on their website. Because I didn’t want to argue (unfortunately), I asked for the money for the steak. She asked if I wanted a new one and I said no. She asked, “did you even try the nachos?” and I said the nachos weren’t the issue, but I didn’t want any of it. Rachel maintained that I would only get reimbursed for the steak, and took the rest of the food.

After telling my husband, he called and told the hostess to put the manager on the phone. She asked him to hold and he waited about 5 min before hanging up and calling right back, only to be sent directly to a VM. My husband had to block his number in order to be able to get through to the restaurant and finally speak to Rachel. She made sure to say she was busy dealing with a party of customers who have not paid yet - and hopefully aren’t going to be as disgusted with their food as we were.

We will never go to Alburtis Tavern again. I hope none of the patrons get sick from the food that they’re...

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