We ate a lunch here not long after they opened. Rated at 3 plates, it is a nice place if maybe a bit pricey. Like the restaurant before it, the wrong location for a nice place?
Boone Mall
Boone, NC 28607
828-355-9800
Hours:
Tue -> Sat 11:00 am -> 9:00 pm
Sun Noon -> 5
Mon: closed (restaurants really still do this??!)
Ray: I started out with a salad (lettuce, tomato, black olives, balsamic vinaigrette). This salad was delicious, with very fresh ingredients. We then shared an appetizer of garlic knots. These were ok, but not really garlicky enough!
Tom: I agree about the knots–they were drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with Parmesan but “knot” a sign of garlic in sight, or smell/taste. The salsa with it was mild to benign. I had a small (”side”) Caesar salad, which was very good, generously large and had an excellent dressing.
Ray: I did spot one chunk of garlic in my portion. Our pizza (my half was tomato, pepperoni, onion, &
banana peppers), was quite good. The crust was thin, the veggies, fresh. The size of our pizza was sufficient enough that I took a couple of slices away for lunch the next day. It was still quite good a day later!
Tom: I had my half tomatoes, ham, green olives and onions. It was indeed very good but I think pricey among area pizzas. Methinks the mall has a high lease cost!. I, too, took home a couple of slices. Maybey they could make lunch pizzas a bit smaller and less expensive?
I also had a glass of white zin and had to ask if the glass was really supposed to be only half full. She replied it was a standard 6-ounce serving. This was $4.95. And, I continue my rant about only carrying Pepsi products (Ok–yell in John Belushi’s voice, “No Coke — Pepsi!”), and using those dang, cheap Pepsi glasses. Especially at a nice restaurant. Just stop it!!
We also split a canoli for dessert–very nicely prepared and presented. While a tasty treat I think 3.95 for one is again, a bit steep.
Ray: The food here was served on nice plates, with great heavy flatware that one can actually use without having it bend in half with you. Kudos. The service was cheerful and fast, right in line with the time it would take to bake a pizza from scratch
Tom: I thought the service while fast was a bit erratic. The salads came out right as we were finishing the garlic knots, although we asked to have them served at the same time. My silverware were not replaced for the pizza after being taken with the salad. I had to borrow some from an another table..
Ray: I still think you should have asked the people at that table for permission!
Tom: I took them from an unoccupied table! Of which, there were several at the time.
Ray: Basically, Primo’s decor has not changed since the change of ownership from Mangia Buona. There are nice, comfortable tables, chairs, and booths, with Italian-themed prints along the walls. There were fresh flowers on the tables, and curios above the divider between the main restaurant and the
bar in the back. Light music was playing in the background.
Tom: Yeah–pop music. At least Joe’s Italian pipes in Italian, including the soothing crooning of the chairman of the board…
Ray: Primos is a nice, relaxing place to enjoy a meal with friends, family, or business acquaintances. The food is good and ample, and the service is fast and friendly. I wouldn’t hesitate to take family or friends to Primos for a nice, filling Italian meal. The pizza is not quite up to the Capone’s standard, but the nicer atmosphere more than makes up for this slight deficiency.
Tom: Yeah, it might be not as good as that wonderful deep-dish pizza at Flipside, either. Also, we walked out poorer by about $25 each, not a particularly inexpensive lunch. Nice, but perhaps a bit too nice for a Boone Mall restaurant.
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