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    Pearl's

    4.1 (133 reviews)
    Closed 8:00 am - 1:00 pm, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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    Presley J.

    Went to Pearl's for the first time for their dinner service and it was great! The restaurant is very cute inside they have nice lighting and the bar is very nice. We tried their Old no. 1 and the Totebag boyfriend pizza after our breadstick appetizer. It was all great but the old no. 1 was my favorite! The service was great as well! I definitely want to go back to try out their bagels

    Our bagels were so good and the fruit was extremely fresh. I highly recommend the bacon egg and cheese

    S(cream) Queen, delicious the egg yolk really added to the flavor
    Andy P.

    Definitely a 4 star. The pizza while very good was not great, and so if you're known for pizza then it'd better be great to get a 5 star. That being said it's a nice little restaurant and my family had a wonderful time there. Pearl's is a small, narrow restaurant but it was warm and cozy and surprisingly didn't feel cramped. There's a short bar at the back of the restaurant and there's a few tables on the side walk out front, perfect seating on this cool fall night. I took note of the poor reviews about their service when looking up Pearls on Yelp, though I found them pleasant enough. Except for the dour looking fellow at the entrance, the staff was friendly and service came at a nice pace. We started off with some cocktails and Peroni, my wife found her glass of natural wine (air quotes and sarcasm) to taste "weird" and switched to purl pink marg. We got the half dozen oysters, Thai mussels and wood fired sardines. The oysters were small (west coast or Japanese, they didn't say) and fresh and delicious. It was served with the kim chee mignonette rather than classic, we're Asian so they guessed kim chee, I assume. I'd prefer the classic. The mussels were good too and the coconut lemongrass broth was savory and great for dipping the accompanying bread. Tinned sardines are a common in the land of small plates (Spain) and a comfort food in Portugal, but this isn't Spain so I was surprised it was on the menu and a bit intrigued. One bite and my hopes that this would be transformative were dashed. The green/pickled onions added a bit of novel flavor but the tinned sardines are much like sardines you get from Kroger. The four of us shared the No 1(margherita), the hellbabe, and the scream queen. These wood fired "artisan" pizzas are small to medium in size. Other than the margherita, these were not your classics but unlike a lot of "artisan" pizzas the flavors worked well and these were each very good in their own way. They weren't great because the crust was a little too chewy or rubbery. Their inflated prices also bring it down a notch, I'm embarrassed to say how much I paid for 3 pizzas, some drinks and a tin of sardines. Oh, wood fired tin of sardines. Plus they tack on that 20% gratuity that yelpers have criticized. I'm fine with it, but seriously for takeout. Rubbish. I really appreciated the owners response to customers questioning this practice, "gratuity is distributed among our employees on top of the livable wage..." Hahaha, right?! That's the whole reason for this uniquely American custom of tipping, because we are led to believe that you don't pay staff a livable wage and we have to augment their paltry salary. Anyway, nice cozy little pizza joint with pretty good pizza and cocktails.

    What a great spread of small plates! It was outstanding.
    Drew G.

    Their bagels are excellent. I really enjoyed the Trout Bagel and next time I really want to try the brisket bagel -I hear that it is amazing as well!

    Bagel n lox

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    Nice cocktail menu/beer selection, cool vibe, and really good pizzas. Get the Hellbabe!

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    Great date night! Delicious cocktails, oysters, and hellbabe pizza. Definitely will be back for more

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    Delicious pizza, very different from your grandmothers pizza and the other pizza restaurants atound town. Great toppings.

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    Does this place still add gratuity to every order?

    If you already pay a living wage, why the need to force the customer to pay 20% on top of that? If you say they deserve more than a living wage, why not pay them that yourselves and let the customer pay any additional amount they feel is merited?… 

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