I was in the Mill Avenue area and decided to pass up the chain restaurants and have lunch at Caffe Boa. It was nice outside so I chose to sit on the patio. I pretty much always order iced tea for lunch but Caffe Boa only had the bottled Republic of Tea offerings. Those are ok but a little pricey so I decided to have a Bass ale instead. Looking at the lunch menu I chose the meatball panini. That's when things went downhill. When my panini arrived it looked kinda thin and so I opened it up. It contained the peppers and marinara sauce promised on the menu, but no meatballs, only a thin sprinkling of ground meat. Can Phoenix be Phoenix without 115 degree summer temperatures? Can spaghetti be spaghetti without noodles? Can a meatball panini be a meatball panini without meatballs? I think not!! I asked my server about this and he informed me that they had indeed changed the recipe. He did offer to go back to the kitchen to get a couple of meatballs but I declined. I think I'll stick with DeFalco's for my meatball sandwiches.
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negative