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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

I was having a good time, but then we ate at Papa John's !!!

My gang (by gang I mean my office colleagues) used to go for a walk daily after the lunch. We were eyeing at Papa John’s newly introduced Tandoori pizzas. So one not so fine day, we embarked in to avail of the Papa John's Introductory offer for the new Tandoori Pizzas - Buy One Medium pizza and get 'pizza for one' (more like 'pizza for one kid', they left that out somehow) free !!!

I am a total Smokin Joe’s loyalist and entirely at blame, got tempted by their tandoori pizzas which looked so good on their advertise paper, how do they do that? Snap some other pizza? Or take a close-up of the teeny tiny pizzas that they offer?


Take this: We ordered one tandoori paneer and one tandoori chicken pizza. The tandoori paneer and tandoori chicken pizzas looked EXACTLY the same with negligible amounts of paneer /chicken toppings respectively and with large doses of tomato, onion, corn… (screams). It was more like a half-cooked utappam than a pizza. The big red chillies, I thought, would be a saving grace, adding spice to the sad ordeal, but apparently that was too much to ask, the chillies were actually sour !!! (had never seen that happen before, hence the special mention). The paneer is white by the way. When they say tandoori paneer pizza, it is expected that the paneer toppings will be red in color.




When the offer said 'pizza for one' free on any medium pizza, we were expecting it to be of normal 7-inches pizza that is actually sufficient to serve one. But here, 'pizza for one' is actually a pizza smaller than 6-inches pizza, which I think, serves a kid. Dun go by this image...its just a 6-inches pizza !!


I did not even find it worth the money we spent on it. It was a badddd baddd experience. So watch out your steps before entering !!

As we were not satisfied with what we had in our lunch, we ordered a medium tandoori paneer pizza the same day from my favourite Smokin Joe's. And trust me it doesn’t get better than that, yummy and mouth watering pizza which finally satiated my pizza craving. :)

Warning: Recently Papa John's have come up with this new offer which says, "Unlimited pepsi and pizza for one for Rs 179 for veggies and Rs199 for non-veggies. Pizza will be served slice by slice. This offer is valid between 11AM to 7PM on weekdays" :) :)

Well, even Smokin Joe's has come up with some reli nice deals which one can opt for. They have the 'Pizza of the day' offer going on...just like the 'Sub of the day' of Subway. You can avail a proper 7-inches non-veg pizza on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday for 100 bucks only, and the 7-inches veg pizza on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday for 75 bucks only...ain't it kool !!!




3 comments:

  1. Wow! Thanks So much Trupti, although i dont like pizza'a from such places (all pizza serving outlets), but will still keep this in mind while order my next pizza :)

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  2. I never tried Papa John's and trupti ur post is all the more discouraging me .. But i loved the way you have described ur disaster experience and the mention of pizza .. automatically makes my mouth water :) and i will definitely keep in mind the tandoori pizza whenever i visit Papa John's.

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  3. I've never been to Papa John's either...so good you shared this experience with us, never gonna go there ! But somehow these pictures are really tempting Trupti, you shouldn't have posted these :( I want a pizza NOWWWW !!!

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