Tweet for free cake at Varasano’s
July 31st, 2009 by Cliff Bostock in Restaurants
Here’s my friend David Sandler photographing his chocolate cake at Varasano’s Pizzeria earlier this week. Dessert is free if you use your mobile device to post something “nice” about your meal on Twitter or Facebook.
It wasn’t hard to say something nice. I ordered the margherita pizza with bufala mozzarella and David ordered the Nana, a similar pie that features more complex herbs than the straight up fresh basil on the margherita.
I noticed that the restaurant now has instructions on the right way to eat pizza (right) on every table. It’s true that eating it this way makes the sometimes gooey texture less problematic. But we got no goo with our pizzas. They were just about perfect.
(Top photo by Cliff Bostock; right photo by David Sandler)
July 31st, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Cake? Who cares about cake? When I can tweet for free PIES, then I’ll start.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:48 pm
As much as I have enjoyed my last several pies at V’s, I think the instruction cards are absolutely absurd. Eat it however the heck you want to as long as you pay your tab at the end of the meal.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Tami, I can’t help but wonder if the table tents/instructions were really a ploy to cover up the fact that their silverware never quite sits comfortably on their plates. This way they don’t have to put them out at all – or until you get your free cake anyhow?
July 31st, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Hello Omnivore Atlanta,
Brown’s Guides is programming a “Georgia Restaurant Search” that will include all Georgia cities, plus Atlanta restaurants by neighborhood. Do you know of any local, state or regional sites that do a good job of this that can be used as a comparison?
Here are the BG Atlanta neighborhoods: Airport, AtlanticStation, Brookhaven, Buckhead, BufordHwy, CabbageTown, CandlerPark, CheshireBridge, Clairmont, Downtown, EastAtlanta, Edgewood, Emory, GrantPark, LittleFivePoints, Midtown, Old4thWard, Perimeter, PonceyHighland, VirginiaHighland, Westside. Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help.
Fred
July 31st, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Hello Omnivore,
Just a brief follow-up on my previous request for your suggestions for sites that do a good job searching for Georgia restaurants. As far as I can tell, Creative Loafing has about the best restaurant search available. Anything you know of that equals or comes close to what you are doing? Thanks. Fred
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
That tuille is bothering me.
August 2nd, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Instructions on how to eat pizza? How off-putting and pretentious. There are those of us with really small hands who find big, floppy slices unwieldy even when folded — a knife and fork works better for me.
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
How? When? and Where? to eat pizza? What a cocky SOB!
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Haven’t y’all seen the movie “Houseboat”? Wayne always reminds me that Sophia Loren instructs (I think) Cary Grant to fold his pizza in that film.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
HAHAHA I love the instructionals..
I have been eating pizzas forever and never realized how much I was missing out until I read his instructions!
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I would do anything Sophia Loren told me to do in her heyday (and mayber even now), but instructions from Jeff Varasano? Not a chance.
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
yet another reason to not eat at varasano’s…
August 4th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
it’s marketing gimmick genius – are you all that honestly put off by it?
Who eats mor chikin because the cows say so?
anyone pissed at the owl for telling us it only takes three licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
are you offended that the chopsticks paper sleeve actually tells you how to use the flipping chopsticks?
Lordy.