Black Moon Pastries & Pizza — Restaurant in Garden City

A little disappointed with our experience tonight. We ordered a Hunter Moon signature pizza for $20 and added the $5 up-charge for gluten free dough ($25 pizza). Before ordering we saw all the same size pizzas around us in the restaurant and thought that’s enough for 2 people. The menu also only had one price per pizza so naturally assumed all pizzas were the same size. When the pizza came out it was significantly smaller than expected. We received a 10 inch personal pan pizza for my wife and I to share. Apparently the gluten free pizzas are significantly smaller than all the regular crust pizzas. Had we been informed the gluten free signature pizza we were ordering and paying more for ($25) was only a 10 inch personal pan pizza we’d never of ordered it. If you’re not going to advertise the difference in your gluten free pizza size on your menu it should be iterated while ordering at your counter so guests are aware of this difference in size (especially since it’s $5 up-charge for a smaller pizza). Everything else was great and the staff very friendly. I’m only writing this review as...

Very overrated, I really don’t understand why this place is rated so well.

$37 (without tip) for a pizza and salad. The salad had croutons on it that seemed dangerously hard, we could barely bite them. Flavor of the salad was meh. The pizza came out fairly quick, looked very nice but unfortunately the flavor was not great. We had to stop eating it because of how salty it was. The ingredients sounded good, but the ingredients they specifically used were all way too salty.

Then the service was okay. One person was great and helped us, but one of two people helping up front was not helpful and was on their phone a lot of the time. We wanted a box to go and I waited for a few minutes at the register area, watching this person on their phone. I tried to be kind about it and get their attention, but they didn’t seem to care.

Again, I really don’t understand the good reviews for this place. I usually give a place a couple tries before having an opinion, but I don’t plan to try...

This was a random find via Google maps, amusingly enough. We got two of the Flower Moon pizzas, which were excellent. Ingredients from the website are: "pomodoro, basil, garlic confit, mozzarella, pecorino, parmesan, gorgonzola." The crust is chewy and crisp, with great texture. The cheese was nice and tart tasting, very good complexity. I love the garlic, as always. The front of house staff was pretty indifferent, but the kitchen staff who delivered the pizza was more engaged and pleasant. Highly recommend their pizza. This was on the cheaper end and it was $15, though. If you want less pricey pizza, I would find another restaurant.

Editing this review to add: Returned to Black Moon, after deciding to give it another go. The staff was very nice, the pizza special they had with burrata is INSANE, and they have a lemony lavender drink that's delicious. I feel like the cost was worth it, especially at happy hour. Way...