The pizza side covers real range in toppings and crust styles, while the dinner menu sticks to the Italian-American classics done properly — spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna, chicken parmigiana — the kind of comfort-food trio that separates a serious family Italian restaurant from a quick-serve pizza counter.
Forty years in the same storefront is its own quiet credential.
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