Fired Up

Fired Up has a really nice modern décor going on. Much nicer than I would have expected judging by the outside appearance of the strip mall. I was there during happy hour/​wine tasting night and found all the different deals a little confusing. There’s a white flight and a red flight on the regular menu for $ 9 each. The wine tasting menu had 3 pours for $ 15, and most of the pours were the same as those on the flight. We asked what the difference was and it turned out the flights were 2-​oz pours and the ‘tasting’ was 3-​oz pours. To further confuse things, two wines were $ 5 a glass for happy hour, which means it was possible to have 3 full glasses for $ 15 rather than 3 half-​glasses for $ 15 on the tasting menu.
After much deliberation, my friends and I all decided to try the flights on the regular menu. The Angel Tears is excellent if you like sweet wine. While we were sampling the wines, we shared the spinach and artichoke dip appetizer. It was good but very tiny. Like a little cup for soup served on a small place with a few tortilla chips and thin pieces of garlic bread. I’m not sure if it was a smaller size for happy hour (it was only $ 5 I think), but one person seriously could’ve eaten the whole thing.
The salads can be ordered as a whole or half, and the half was pretty generous. I had the Bistro Salad which had cheese, onions, mushrooms, and field greens. The pizzas are supposedly individual-​sized but unless you have a huge appetite I wouldn’t recommend eating a whole one by yourself. I split the Mediterranean pizza minus sausage with my friend, and three pieces each was more than enough. The pizza was hot out of the oven and tasted good but the crust was a bit thin.
So that’s three stars for food, drinks, and atmosphere. The two stars not awarded stem from deadness and slow service. There were maybe 20 customers tops, including us, over the course of 2 hours. And the service was incredibly slow. The two tables that came in after us got their food before we did, and the bill took forever too. Three checks for 5 people should not be that difficult. Especially considering how dead the place was. Hopefully they’ll find some quicker servers and pick up more customers or I don’t know how long this place will stay in business.

Fired Up was, until about a week ago, The Wine Studio. I’ve never been to the Wine Studio, but from what I understand, the main differences are that they’re now serving food, and they got new furniture/​redid the flooring.
On Friday night I met there with a group of 5 other girls. It’s a little weird, because it’s in this abandoned looking strip mall across from a much busier area, and we were literally the only people there. Our waitress was so unbelievably sweet and nice (maybe just glad for something to do?), and they were very eager to please. My friend, who has been ill and is off dairy, asked if they could just make her some breadsticks or something out of some pizza dough, and after a little confusion on what she wanted, they complied and brought her exactly what she had hoped for.
The menu isn’t huge, but it’s got a few pizzas, salads and desserts that all looked great. Everyone liked what they ordered (I got cheesecake), the wine was good, and I really loved the interior of the place and felt extremely comfortable and happy there. They have a couple tvs on the walls, but the volume was off and they weren’t distracting. Lighting was nice, coloring and furnishing very elegant and comfy. I just wish it wasn’t so far from me.
In the two and a half hours we were there, only one other couple came in. So good luck Fired Up, you deserve it and it looks like you’ll need it!