I used Bettola to cater a party. The food was excellent and the service was wonderful. I would…read morehighly recommend their catering.

We were anticipating a 45 min wait for a table but so happy someone canceled and we got a seat. The…read moreplace isn't that big and the bar was packed. Service was fast once we were seated. We had fried mozzarella and meatballs for apps. We got the Fra Diavolo and Bolognese pasta. Everything was delicious! I never had fried mozzarella flat but can't stop thinking of it. It had the perfect crisp! The fra diavolo is spicy but the perfect amount for me. I was eyeing the pizzas at the tables next to us. They looked so good. I'll try it next time but I really love the fra diavolo so it's going to be a tough choice. Perhaps pizza for apps but also the fried mozzarella. Oh boy... so hard to choose!! You won't be disappointed here!

The food was some of the best pizza and weiners O have ever had. Our friends Nick and Kendra…read morerecommended this place, and we were so glad they did. Weiners by far the best in the state. Heavy on sauce and onions "all the way" and their hot honey pepperoni pizza was so tasty with drops of ricotta and hot honey. Their service is top notch. The only drawback was the ambiance. We were there for Karaoke night and I am not a big fan of that. Most drunk people don't realize, yelling into the Microphone is not singing. But overall we will be back for pizza, wings, fries and weiners again

I was heading down to the boat to meet up with hubby & decided to use a gift card to pick up a…read morepizza. Napolitano's Brooklyn Pizza in Cranston was on the way! I ordered the garlic knots, extra garlicky, with marinara dipping sauce & a large pepperoni pizza, extra sauce, well done. The garlic knots were packed with flavor & we loved the extra garlic. The pizza was exactly what we were craving - crispy, cheesy, saucy & loaded with deliciousness. Everything absolutely hit the spot! NOM NOM NOM #YUM

Great place, great food. Service was a little slow. However I will go back! I do like the pizza…read moreover most of the menu.

Spectacular! Wife and I came here in March and again in September. Sat in the same cozy spot just…read moreinside the back door in the bar area. We both got sandwiches. Wife got eggplant and I got meatball and cheese with peppers. Both sandwiches were wicked good. Yes. WICKED good! We also got the breadsticks with marinara sauce. Again, wicked good. Our waitress was different for each of the two times we visited, but the service was the same spectacular service. They were both very friendly. Definitely recommend this place and definitely wanna come back.

Friendly staff and great pizza. I accidentally ordered the wrong pizza for my kid and they couldn't…read moreeat it, but they made the right one for my kid even though it was my mistake. That's really great service and the prices were super reasonable.

From the outside, Sako's Pizza looks like it could already be a franchise…read more The branding is polished. The building is sharp. Everything is so well put together that you expect something a little more corporate. Then you walk inside. And it feels like a neighborhood pizza place. Friendly people. Easy hospitality. Families at the tables. A big menu over the counter. The kind of place where people seem comfortable being there. It is also ridiculously clean. Not "clean for a pizza place." Hospital clean. The floors, the tables, the glass, the counter. Everythin Then the pizza showed up. At first glance, it looks familiar enough. Nicely browned cheese. Pepperoni with some crisp around the edges. A substantial-looking outer crust. Spotless. Then the pizza arrives. Flip the slice over. That is where Sako's really starts explaining itself. The bottom is beautifully brown, with darker patches from the pan and enough crunch that you hear it when you bite through. Sako's follows some of the Greek pizza playbook without really eating like Greek pizza. The pan. The browned cheese. The substantial-looking crust. The sturdy slice. All of that feels familiar. Then you bite into it and the comparison starts falling apart. The crust is much lighter than it looks. Airy inside. Crunchy underneath. Crunchy around the outside edge. Really satisfying on both sides. It has structure without weight. That crust is the foundation of the pizza. But the sauce is every bit as good. Herby, flavorful and really tasty, with enough personality to stand right beside that crust instead of disappearing underneath the cheese and pepperoni. That is where Sako's really separates itself for me. The crust gives the pizza its structure. The sauce gives it its voice. Sako's uses a mozzarella and cheddar blend. I am not much of a cheese guy, so I am not going to pretend I sat there trying to break down exactly what each cheese was doing. What I can tell you is that the sauce, cheese and pepperoni all play nice together. Nothing is fighting for attention. Nothing gets buried. It borrows some of the structure of Greek pizza without becoming the style. That is the best way I can describe it. One other thing caught my attention before I ordered. The gluten-free options are hard to miss here. They are featured prominently on the menu, and there are gluten-free brownies, brookies and other snacks sitting right at the counter. I asked about the gluten-free crust because they clearly are not treating that part of the menu like some obligation they had to check off. That tells you something about the place too. Sako's describes what they make as hand-stretched pan pizza, and that description makes more sense once you see the bottom of the slice and feel that contrast between crunch and airiness. The gluten-free crust is more of a South Shore bar pie. Crackery, crunchy, thin. A lot of pizzas are built from the top down. This one feels built from the bottom up. The crust is the foundation. The sauce is just as strong. Everything else knows its role. And the whole thing tastes like it belongs together.

We gave this place a try while in Cranston. I was actually surprised at how tiny it is considering…read moreI've been to Spike's Junk Yard Dogs when it was in this location years ago. Needless to say, they don't need the space to make some excellent pizza. We shared a few different slices. My favorite was the Detroit style with the pepperoni, hot honey, and seasoned mozzarella! We got a slice that we didn't order, as a girl misheard us, but it ended up being a very good slice of Detroit. It had orange chicken on it. I had never had anything like that, but it was absolutely delicious! The Florentine with the tomatoes was delicious. The sauce that's used on the pizza is so good and all the crust were cooked perfectly. Even my wife, who doesn't like Detroit style Pizza said that the flavor of the dough was different than the other ones I've had her try at other places around Rhode Island in Massachusetts. I'm in need of Rhode Islander so I did buy a bag of the pizza chips and I absolutely love them. You have to like bakery pizza that I like these. The girls at the register were absolutely amazing and more friendly than most pizza places I've been in recently. They even joked with us when we sat and ate, which we really appreciated it. I love the decor of the chandeliers, it had such a nice touch. The only thing that I didn't love was how loud the music was. We couldn't hear each other across the small table, but that subjective anyway. If I'm around Cranston, I will definitely go back here and I would recommend that everyone else gives it a try.

As a RHORI fan, I knew I had to stop by this spot. I love that they offer a huge selection of…read moredifferent styles of pizzas. You are able to get a pie or order by the slice. Up to you if you want to dine-in or takeout. It's right next door to a high school so there were a lot of teens when I visited. It's an intimate space with a few booths if you want to dine-in. They have a gender neutral single stall bathroom in the space. It's located in a strip mall so there is a lot of free parking out front. I enjoyed the motor city roni slice. The staff was really friendly too. It was a fun stop.

AMAZING VEGE PIZZA !…read more Friends picked this pizza up and we devoured it!!! More veges than I can count on 2 hands ABSOLUTELY DELISH !

I have been dining at Nino's pizza how many years and they never disappoint their customers. They…read morehave consistently prepared the best pizza, no matter what style you choose. The staff is so friendly and right on top of all of your needs. The raviolis, sandwiches, calzones, pizza, and salads are fantastic.

The new Detroit slim with pepperoni, mushroom and hot cherry peppers. It was very good! The crust…read morehad great flavor and it was filling. I would recommend extra cheese next time. They have so many options for toppings you can't go wrong. They have several choices for specialty pizzas too.

Apparently Lauren's birthday is a pizza festival now…read more For Day Two, I met up with her at The Pizza Nomad in the Center of New England because they have a new pizza called the Detroit Slim. I had questions. Mostly about how something this thick gets to call itself slim. We ordered one cheese and one pepperoni and settled in. Then we saw the pizza, and suddenly Detroit Slim made sense. The answer is geometry. It isn't slim from the side. Not even close. It's slim from above. Instead of the big rectangular Detroit-style pizza most of us know, this thing is long and narrow, cut into four substantial pieces. I immediately loved the size. It gives you everything I want from Detroit-style pizza without requiring what sometimes feels like a contractual obligation to an enormous pan of it. Four pieces. Manageable. Plenty of pizza. But the crust is what got me. Look at the picture of Lauren holding up that cross-section. That's the story. The inside is almost absurdly soft, smooth and airy. Big pockets run through a light, pillowy structure that looks nothing like what you're expecting from the weight of the slice in your hand. Then turn it over. The bottom is golden brown, blistered and crisp enough to make noise. That's the trick. You bite through this loud, crunchy shell and immediately hit something soft, smooth and almost delicate inside. Crunch, then pillow. The two textures shouldn't occupy the same piece of dough this comfortably. But they do. And around the perimeter, things get even better. Cheese escapes down the sides and meets the hot pan, leaving behind those dark, crispy pieces hanging off the edges. The stuff that looks almost burned in the pictures? That's treasure. The sauce has enough presence to survive everything happening around it. You still taste tomato beneath all that cheese, crust and rendered pepperoni. The cheese itself is really good, with enough flavor to be more than just the thing holding everything together. And that pepperoni was fantastic. Some cups. Some curls. Some lies flat against the cheese. The edges go dark and crisp while the centers render their fat into everything underneath them. There is a point with pepperoni where "burned" and "perfect" become separated by about thirty seconds. I like living dangerously close to that line. Pizza Nomad does too. There is also, for reasons I cannot explain, a full-sized medieval knight standing guard over the pizza. I respect this. If you're going to make an inch and a half thick pizza called Detroit Slim, there is no reason a knight can't stand guard over it. The Detroit Slim is a collection of contradictions. It's thick without being heavy. Soft and seriously crunchy. Small enough to feel manageable, substantial enough that nobody is going home wondering what we're having for lunch tomorrow. But I keep coming back to that crust. That soft, smooth, airy interior. The blistered bottom. The cheese cooked hard against the edges. Crispy pepperoni on top of all of it. Every layer has a different job. And somehow, every one of them makes noise. Day Two of Lauren's birthday pizza week is in the books. At this point, I've accepted that her birthday lasts a week. I see no compelling reason to challenge this.

Food is amazing but the service is just as good! While parking and seating is limited, the customer…read moreservice you receive is well worth the effort!

Saturday is not the usual day I break my parents out of where they live…read more That is a Sunday tradition. We go to lunch, get groceries, take care of whatever needs taking care of, and spend a few hours together away from their usual routine. This week, I changed the schedule for Catanzaro's Pizzeria. I wanted to see Anthony and thank him in person for the generous donation Catanzaro's made to The Pizza Principal Kickstarter. That donation helped get us over the top earlier this week. I also wanted my parents to experience the food at a place so many people in this community consider THE BEST. We ordered a caprese salad, meatballs, and a cheese, pepperoni, and olive pizza. The family order. My mother is pretty renowned for her meatballs, so restaurant meatballs have a difficult assignment when they arrive at our table. My family has opinions. Strong ones. My mother took a bite and immediately started comparing them to her own. "These are exactly the same as mine." "I'm so excited." "This is amazing." "I can't believe it." Then my father tried one. He looked at my mother. He looked at me. "The best meatballs I've ever had." That is not a sentence my father hands out casually. The pizza had to follow that, and it did. My parents, like me, have spent six decades believing that another very established, iconic Rhode Island pizzeria unquestionably makes the best pizza in the state. But then Catanzaro's made their case. By the end of lunch, my parents were willing to admit that Catanzaro's can go toe to toe with anybody, anywhere. They loved the food. They loved the service. They loved Anthony. And I loved watching them discover something new together. That is the part I will remember. Not just that the food was outstanding, although it was. Not just that Catanzaro's helped get The Pizza Principal over the finish line, although they did. I got to sit across from my parents while a restaurant they had never tried changed their minds about something they thought they had already settled decades ago. That is a heck of a Saturday. Thank you, Anthony. Thank you to everyone at Catanzaro's. You fed my parents, helped make a film happen, and gave our family a new chapter in an old argument. I could not be more grateful.

Small strip mall wings joint with some Buffalo sports memorabilia for street cred, but their…read moreBuffalo wings have so much credibility on their own that they could put up Captain Kangaroo decor, and I'd still come running. It's over-the-counter ordering, with pizzas another option, and more importantly, you can also get beer to complement your wings. -- Buffalo Wings: From the first visit, some of the best I've had in a long, long time. Not the biggest (I'd say right around average size), but they nailed every aspect, from the piercing tartness of the sauce to match the spice, to the butteriness, to the crispness of every surface, to the tender and juicy interiors on every piece. If that weren't enough, the blue cheese tipping sauce was also spectacular, with noticeable sharpness and lots of chunks of real cheese to go along with the creamy liquid. They matched the buffalo sauce nicely. -- Loganberry Wings: From the second visit, a Buffalo regional sauce mixing raspberry flavors with barbecue sauce. The result is a mix of sweet and savory in a rich, full-bodied sauce with plenty of oomph and plenty of cling. It's sweet for sure, but its barbecue sauce component cuts it and a dip into some ranch cuts it more while adding a little something. I loved the sauce. The wings, though, were a little bit smaller and a little bit dryer this time. Still very good. -- 716 Mulberry Chicken Fingers: Also from the second visit. Nothing like Chinese chicken fingers; more like a chicken tender, and more still like a chicken cutlet. Three flat pieces in the small order provided minimal thickness, but a decent amount of meat, spread out. The Mulberry sauce has a Buffalo base with some additional secret seasonings and other ingredients to change the flavor a bit. Not bad, but I think I'd go straight Buffalo next time. Tender inside, but no crispness outside. This includes fries, which were a very solid McDonald's facsimile. Notable: Easy parking in their own lot. A minimum 25-minute wait for wings, so plan accordingly. Friendly, helpful counter people. So two visits, one great, one very good. Some memorable sauces and some memorable presentations. I'll be back to see if they hit great again and get bumped to a 5.

Ample seating inside and outside and they have a parking lot. We liked the buffalo chicken pizza…read moreand the wings. The double order of chicken tenders is huge, we had plenty of leftovers. The staff were very nice and helpful. My husband and son loved the wings! Overall, if you like wings...give them a try, you won't be disappointed.

Maria's Pizza And Wings on Pontiac Ave in Cranston is a neighborhood spot, the kind that's easy to…read moremiss if you don't already know it's there, tucked in and going about its business without asking for your attention. Because I know about this little hidden gem already, I was driving home after a long day and I wasn't going to pass it without stopping. This is what I'd call emotional support pizza. Not a pilgrimage. Not a revelation. Just a really solid pie from a place that knows what it's doing and doesn't need to make a fuss about it. Pepperoni and black olive for me today. The crust had that chew you want, cooked through, some golden brown color on the bottom. The sauce was rich tomato with garlic running underneath the cheese, present enough to know it's there without fighting for attention. The olives were generous and distributed like someone thought about where they landed, not just dropped from a height. The pepperoni is cupped and charred slightly at the edges. The toppings-to-cheese ratio was right. It arrived fast and it arrived hot. This is what a revered neighborhood pizza place is supposed to be. Maria's does it. It's primarily takeout, four tables, busy foot traffic in and out the whole time I was there. They do good business and they know what their business is. I sat down anyway because I tend to be an iconoclast, and it was a fine visit. If you live nearby, you already know about this place. If you don't, that's between you and your neighborhood. Maybe you should move.

I am hooked on Maria's pizza. I stopped in as the are a contestant in the RI Food Fight's Lord of…read morethe Pies competition and got a small pizza with sausage. I ordered over the phone and was told it would be ready in 20 minutes. I walked into the shop twenty minutes later and it was ready. The staff was very courteous and the whole ordering/paying process was as it should be - easy! I took it home and it had just cooled enought to eat it. This is the type of pizza I love. A thinker crust, loaded with mozzarella, and a nice sauce that was not overwhelming. The sausage had a nice spice to it. (For the record, I am not a fan on New Haven style pizza, which seems to be popular in RI - this is not that. Nor is it New York style - which I do like BUT not over the style that Maria's serves.) I aslo added some wings to the order (this time spicy BBQ). Those were good as always. It also should be said that I had left over pizza and it reheated nicely! They now are my go to pizza place.