La Lune Rousse

I’m not entirely sure why this place is called «The Red Moon.» Maybe the name is in reference to the pizzas they make. But there is nothing special about the pizzas here. They are overpriced, and that’s really the best way to describe them because nothing else about them stands out. They are made for one person each and if you were in the United States, you could get a pizza to feed your whole family for the same price at Costco. But this isn’t the United States, and you have to deal with what you’re given in France. Despite the countless expensive restaurants surrounding this one, my friends and I for some reason decided to settle down at this one, and I’m not sure that was the best decision.
A pizzeria is probably the most accurate term for this type of restaurant. Their menu has sixteen different pizzas that range from eight euros to fourteen euros. On the other side of the menu, they have a page for pastas. There are also sixteen different pastas that go from 8,00 € to 11,50 €. I wanted to save as much money as possible, and I somehow thought that a pizza would be more filling than a plate of pasta, so I ordered an eight-​dollar pizza. It was the «margharita» with tomato and mozzarella. If I’m not mistaken, the more expensive pizzas are only fitted with more expensive ingredients and are no bigger than their cheaper counterparts.
Anyway, the pizza itself arrives and I am greatly disappointed by my first impression of it. It looks like an ordinary cheese pizza from the United States. The middle is just yellow-​white cheese with brown spots scattered around. That’s really all there is. There is no pepperoni (not like the menu said there would be), because it is just tomato and mozzarella. French menus seem to be very literal and won’t leave out any details. If the menu says the item includes certain ingredients, you can be sure it includes just those ingredients and nothing more.
There are a few other details about the pizza that might be worth mentioning, even though it’s just about as simple as can be. The outer crust is a very odd, deformed shape, not perfectly circular like the ones you find in the United States. The edge of the crust was also a bit burned. I believe they accomplished all this by doing no more than tossing a bunch of dough, tomatoes, and mozzarella together in an oven and calling it a meal. They didn’t even attempt to make it look appealing. For about six or seven euros I might find this acceptable, but when you have such simplicity for eight euros, it starts getting a little ridiculous.
I know that I am complaining about an item at a restaurant that is served exactly as it is advertised on the menu. But eleven dollars for this kind of food just doesn’t cut it where I’m from. It’s not like the pizza itself was actually bad, so I’m not giving it one star. After all, you’d have to actually try to take the most basic components of a pizza and make a total disaster out of it. But I spotted a nice looking gyro restaurant near this place that had gyros for 4,50 €. My friends and I skipped that place because we wanted a place where we could sit down. Still, I regret to this day not going there instead.