There's a reason why on a Friday night several pizza places down the street have an obnoxiously long wait at 6:00pm and why Nello's only has a handful of diners.  It's just not what it once was.\n\nMy wife and I split a small caesar salad ($8.99).  It was pretty good and would have feed at least 3, maybe even four people.  However, there was a mysterious scary looking piece of mushroom in the salad.  While the random fungi wasn't something worth sending it back over.  It made me wonder what other things could have fallen into the wrong place in the kitchen.  We also split a 14\" pesto chicken pizza ($20.49).  The parts of the pie that weren't burnt were pretty good.  Again, we could have complained, but why wait another 10 to 15 minutes for another pizza.  The good news for us, thanks to a $30 for $15 gift certificate on Local Dines (http://www.localdines.com/phoenix?ref=19485), we didn't pay too much.