Cosi

SouthCoast Metro Pointe
901 South Coast Drive
Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Phone: 714-957-6191
Fax: 714-957-3384

Free Wireless Internet Available: Yes

Hours: Monday: 7a-9p Tuesday: 7a-9p Wednesday: 7a-9p Thursday: 7a-9p Friday: 7a-11p Saturday: 8a-11p Sunday: 8a-9p

Cosi is a pretty little cafe that advertises it's a wifi hotspot. It's very inviting with many tables tucked away, pretty chairs and booths and modern, clean lines.

On Sunday they advertise a buy one get one free special on pizza. Having two hungry teens and a child, it sounded like a good bargain. Large pizzas are about $13.00 and they have about 6 different varieties to choose from. We selected:
Meat TrioSausage, bacon and pepperoni
Pan Asian ChickenRed curry lemongrass chicken, roasted red peppers, scallions & red onions, topped with fresh cilantro.

Caesar with Grilled ChickenRomaine, parmesan and croutons topped with grilled chicken breast. Tossed with Caesar dressing.

I also ordered a coffee and soda.

We enter and there is one other table. I order at the counter and I'm told the special is only for individual pizzas. It is easy for me to walk out. I didn't place the sign outside their restaurant with a tiny disclaimer in the dark. I really didn't care; there is a family favorite restaurant next door. The girl said, "Wait, it’s fine", and places the order.

The salad is about the same as a salad in the bag at the grocery store down to the plastic tasting parmesan and the heavy dressing. There are very large chucks of white meat. It sounds good but it reminded me of cheap lunchmeat. It's definitely not natural chicken. Some sort of tasteless pressed cubed mush... Anyway there are four of us and no plates and one fork. The food runner seems bothered by the fact we are sharing everything and need plates and forks for everyone.

The meat trio was humorous. Pepperoni, sausage and bacon bits. Yup, bacon bits. Very strange...

The Asian pizza was the worst pizza I've ever had in a sit down restaurant. It is chunks of canned tomatoes, more of the same bad chicken, raw red onions and heavily doused with fresh cilantro.

Notice the meat trio does not say it has cheese. But it does, white cheese. The Asian pizza has no mention of cheese, and it does not have cheese. Unless a pizza states it has no cheese, it's sort of expected. Anyway, we left the Asian pizza almost untouched.

I haven't described the crust on both pizzas. It was difficult for the teens to enjoy the pizza because the crust is VERY hard. I've had flatbread before but this is almost cardboard like. We all ended up scraping the top layer off and had piles of stale tasting crust on our plates.

The coffee was terrible. The texture was more like ovaltine: thick and mouth coating and it was beyond bitter.

Sunday night's are known for being slow nights in restaurants, and maybe the cook had an off day. With all our other choices though, we won't be back.