For the last three weeks, all I have tasted is food that deserves good reviewing, and it’s beginning to upset me. I haven’t been able to harshly critique anything recently because the food I’ve been trying has genuinely been kinda good. So next week, I will try to eat somewhere where I know the food is bad. 

The BERG Chicken and Pizza in PPG place is significantly better than its old predecessor, Chicken Guy. On their end, it was an excellent business move to get that restaurant out of there. Chicken Guy just left unfulfilled dreams and tummy aches. 

At the new restaurant, they serve a variety of dishes that, at first, I was apprehensive about. While it’s rebranded, the kitchen is the same as the last restaurant’s 

The meat lover’s pizza at $7.99 had a good blend of meat flavors. Since I ordered it with garlic parmesan sauce, it wasn’t greasy. It had a crispy thin crust and was almost painfully cheesy.

The pepperoni pizza was $7.49 in comparison. So for another $0.50, you get more meat. Price-wise, the pizza was smaller than I liked. Opening the box, it looked to be half the circumference of a frisbee, but it was still filling regardless. 

With my naked eye, the cheese pull on the pizza measured out to be around two inches. The crust was crispy.

The mac and cheese at $6.99 was heavenly. It came in a cup-portioned container with a layer of cheese crusted on top. The noodles on the bottom were kept warm by the top cheese blanket. The creaminess of the cheese below and the tenderness of the noodles were something to be dreamed of.

The garden salad I ordered was $9.99. It was fresh and a basic depiction of a good salad. It had cute small cucumbers and the grilled chicken it came with wasn’t dry. It was moist and had a juicy chicken flavor that was enhanced by the grill.

With ranch added, it elevated the salad’s flavor. The ranch tasted like it was house-made.

The jumbo chicken tenders at $5.49 were the size of crispy fish filets. They were two large and scarily thin pieces of chicken. Eaten right away, they were super crispy, but not too hard to hurt your mouth like the crispy chicken at Cafe Momentum. There was nothing special about the flavor. The portion was good for the price.

The french fries at the Berg at $3.99 were a little pricey but were super crispy, not greasy and not over-salted. I had no complaints.

After speaking to a worker, he told me that their strawberry milkshakes, unlike Chicken Guy’s, don’t use syrup. To make their milkshakes, they use frozen strawberries. The flavor is strong and thick, with small, flavorful chunks of the berry spread throughout. It made me wish that the straws were larger.

After doing the review last Thursday, I went back on Monday to get a strawberry milkshake and the chicken for lunch. While the chicken isn’t anything special, it’s affordable, and the milkshake is literally to die for. In a 15-minute trip, with a little bit of sprinting, I still managed to get the food and make it to my class exactly on time.