Fat Freddy’s Bistro

In our mission statement it says “This site is an attempt and an excuse to sample and review as much pizza as possible in the Philadelphia area and beyond.”  I’m currently in Ireland helping friends Frank and Rosie with the first session of their artist studio art program called Cow House Studios.  I knew pizza would be few and far between but I was hoping to get in some of those “beyond” reviews in.

Somewhere along the main strip in Galway, Ireland lies Fat Freddy’s Bistro. This little restaurant that has quite an extensive list of pizza on the menu, among the typical fare such as salads, sandwichs and meat and pasta entrees.  Never one to turn down the opportunity the eat some of “God’s food,” Frank, Rosie and I decided the split a large cheese pie.  

It was just boring and flavorless.

The first thing I noticed from looking at the pie was that my idea of a large pie is quite different from their idea of a large pie.  The size was somewhere between a small and a medium and I probably could have conquered the whole thing by myself with little effort.  Even though it was clearly hot and melted, you could still see the formation of the individual pieces of shredded mozzarella.  I guess that happened because of the excessive amount of cheese that they used.  There was seriously a lot of cheese on this pizza.  While I like cheese a lot, if you’re going to use that much, at least do something interesting with it.  Add some spice or throw in a different kind of cheese or something.  On first bite it was evident that they make their pizza from frozen dough.  It was flakey and flavorless.  The sauce was only slightly better than ketchup and water and I’ve already been over the cheese.  Despite all the negative feedback, the pizza wasn’t disgusting.  It wasn’t good and I won’t be trying it again but it wasn’t gross either.  It was just boring and flavorless.  We should have gone the the chipper.

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Fat Freddy’s Bistro
The Halls
Quay Street
Galway, Ireland
www.fatfreddys.net
091-567279