Pedone's Pizza & Deli — Restaurant in Redondo Beach

First time trying this location. Apparently the food is as different as the location. The service was fine. The food, NOT. Looked like a bar and the food looked like it was prepared by someone who had been drinking. I will make the drive to the Catalina location from now on.

I'm never paying $24 for chicken stick appetizer (which was okay) and meat sauce lasagna (wasn't meaty like Catalina's, there was something resembling meat sprinkled on top, looked processed). The "homemade garlic roll? Looked like a hoagie bun and the smallest amount of garlic butter on a knife or basting brush was wiped on the bread like the knife was being cleaned, one swipe with each piece of bread. The salad was fresh. That was good.

The next time I see a food establishment is open till 2:15am I will assume it's a bar with a kitchen and a crappy cook. Sorry whoever was on shift 6/17/18' but you seriously need...

Ordered pizza and wings for pickup . Ready in 20 minutes, which was fast for a Saturday at 5:30 . 2 Large pizzas plus 3 large order of wings was more than enough for 8 people ,. Thin crust pizza , not skimpy on the toppings . Wings were good size ,the large order is 12 wings and comes with 2 sauces, ranch and buffalo. but they do not come in MilD, medium , hot sauce . It's either hot sauce or "naked" . As was told on the phone, but the hot Wings according to my guests were "normal" . We used the buffalo sauce on the naked wings , VERY GOOD , the ranch sauce actually was blue cheese ,which was good also. Came with a lot of celery . When picking up, staff were polite, efficient. Lucky for us there were 2 empty parking spots in front of the...

Look....I really wanted to like this place and give them a good review. And maybe it was the buildup from a couple of friends and neighbors that set my expectations a little too high. But ultimately....slow service, loose adherence to COVID-19 protocols, salads that were not just "wet"...but on the verge of being "slimy" and the best thing I can say is that the pizza was just "meh"....I just couldn't rate it any higher than this.

This was the day after Christmas and maybe the stars just aligned for every aspect to fall a little short. I'm hoping that's the case and we just caught them on a bad day....but unfortunately, we were...