Where is it?

I used to go to Schiano's for their calzones but I heard they got sold off a couple years ago so I wonder if it's still good.

Also, not a calzone but that pizza place on Harrison Avenue in front of the Embassy Suites has this thing called a spinach pizza wrap (maybe? Forget the actual name...) that is AMAZING. It's close to a calzone and I crave one right now

7/18/2010 11:29:17 PM

Lilly's. Or Pepper's in CH

7/18/2010 11:34:07 PM

The pig in a poke at Lilly's is incredible.

7/18/2010 11:36:21 PM

Found it!

http://www.theoriginalnypizza.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/menu.main/index.htm

And they do call them wraps And they've expanded the wrap menu beyond spinach and meatball

7/18/2010 11:39:02 PM

Lilys isn't really that good. I mean, it's cool to go there when you're slumming and you want to sit outside, but you don't really go there for the food itself. Just some giant blob of cheese and pizza sauce slapped together by a dirty vegan, straightedge, or insert title here. I only go there when I'm drinking.

7/18/2010 11:40:11 PM

I like the pizza at Lilly's but have never been a fan of the calzones. The sauce to crust ratio is not to my liking.

7/18/2010 11:43:48 PM

Quote :

"Just some giant blob of cheese and pizza sauce slapped together by a dirty vegan, straightedge, or insert title here."

I realize people get a lot of mileage on this site by including derisive references to hipsters in their posts, but grow the fuck up. I don't care if it's a monkey wearing a bandana assembling my food as long as it's good. Also if you think that squeaky clean preppies are making your food at any restaurant you're fucking delusional.

7/19/2010 12:33:11 AM

i used to LOVE pizzamericas calzones


also ruckus has HUGE ones

7/19/2010 12:34:39 AM

While I recommend Hotpoint for pizza (and I hear sandwiches), I was sadly underwhelmed by the calzone there. I have a thing for stromboli though, I need to go look up the difference.

7/19/2010 12:42:17 AM

^^^

7/19/2010 2:17:08 AM

straightedge at lilly's is funny

7/19/2010 2:21:10 AM

i have a lilly's story.

i like their food BUT one time i was there eating (duh) and you know how they have like the mixed green salads (with all the weird like stem looking things and leaf looking things and different colored lettuce) so i was just stabbing away eating my salad and i went to stab a brownish/reddish piece of green


it had wings


it was a moth


it was alive


kinda wanted to barf.

[Edited on July 19, 2010 at 2:25 AM. Reason : ,]

7/19/2010 2:25:02 AM

Who eats salad at a pizza restaurant in the first place

7/19/2010 2:33:30 AM

I'm not one of the pizzamerica haters, but I got a stromboli there once.

Quote :

"WORST STROMBOLI EVER"

So I'm going to assume that their calzones are awful as well.

7/19/2010 2:40:43 AM

^^^they should have charged you extra for the protein

I do like their salads though, caramelized pecans and pizza dough croutons ftw.

[Edited on July 19, 2010 at 2:42 AM. Reason : .]

7/19/2010 2:42:04 AM

haha. i know their salads are good! i love pizza and salad

you gotta get the salad to make yourself feel SLIGHTLY ok about the pizza

but it was awhile before i ate a salad there again.

7/19/2010 2:54:23 AM

Here they just skip the separate entrees and make salad pizza.



[Edited on July 19, 2010 at 3:23 AM. Reason : a]

7/19/2010 3:21:35 AM

Quote :

"I like the pizza at Lilly's but have never been a fan of the calzones. The sauce to crust ratio is not to my liking. "

Lol, wut? Calzones don't have sauce (maybe on the side for dipping). That sounds like a stromboli.

7/19/2010 9:37:47 AM

Ahh yeah I meant filling. My bad

7/19/2010 10:38:53 AM

Sad to hear about Schiano's! BrwnEyedGirl and I used to go there all the time for calzones

7/19/2010 10:42:09 AM

Quote :

"spinach pizza wrap "

I want this.

7/19/2010 10:42:49 AM

^^ Yeah one of my friends in high school was the niece of the owner back in the day and she told me in passing a few years ago her uncle had sold it.

^ You have to go try it!! Unless they've really gone downhill in the past four years you won't regret it

[Edited on July 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM. Reason : a]

7/19/2010 10:42:55 AM

Quote :

"straightedge at lilly's is funny"

Yeah...That was kind of a joke.
As was the vegan part, although I guess there could be a vegan there that I don't know about.
I stopped paying attention to shitty tattoos years ago.

Their calzones do suck though.

7/19/2010 10:49:21 AM

lynnwood grill

7/19/2010 10:50:00 AM

Schiano's makes a fantastic calzone.

7/19/2010 10:56:33 AM

Im not usually big on chain restaurants, but Mellow Mushroom probably has the best zone in Ive had in Raleigh (yes better than Lilly's)

7/19/2010 11:09:14 AM

lilly's does have the best salads of anyplace i know in raleigh


Also, ive been wanting to try that place in chapel hill that everyone loves

[Edited on July 19, 2010 at 11:13 AM. Reason : CH]

7/19/2010 11:10:00 AM

I like the calzones at Lilly's. In my experience, calzones at Mellow Mushroom can vary wildly -- the one I had in Winston was great, the one I had in Raleigh wasn't very good. I think that's mainly because the one in Winston didn't use ricotta cheese, while the one in Raleigh did.

Meanwhile, the calzones at Moonlight Pizza are pretty mediocre.

7/19/2010 11:12:52 AM

i second everyone who says Lilly's calzone

7/19/2010 11:13:53 AM

Quote :

"calzones at Mellow Mushroom.... the one I had in Winston was great, ..... didn't use ricotta cheese,"

Then it wasn't a calzone. Calzones generally always have ricotta.

7/19/2010 11:25:02 AM

^ haha was about to say the same thing.

Quote :

"lilly's does have the best salads of anyplace i know in raleigh "

Guess I'll have to try a salad there I'm a fan of the Greek salad at Raleigh Times though.


[Edited on July 19, 2010 at 11:28 AM. Reason : .]

7/19/2010 11:28:11 AM

there's a place up on pool road... pretty good calzones... yum

7/19/2010 11:36:34 AM

Quote :

"Then it wasn't a calzone. Calzones generally always have ricotta."

They have them 60% of the time, everytime.

7/19/2010 11:49:09 AM

Never been to Lilly's. Amy I actually missing something. I'm moving in three weeks, and wonder if I should go before I move... just to have had it.

7/19/2010 11:52:28 AM

I always thought that calzones would be the cruelest thing to feed to the population of a besieged city

first let them spend 6-8 weeks eating grass soup, pine cones, rats, and shoe-leather, totally maybe 500 calories a day

and then when they finally surrender, give them each an enormous greasy piece of bread stuffed with sausage, pepperoni, onions, green peppers, mushrooms and ricotta cheese

it would probably be kinder just to run them through with your sword

7/19/2010 11:54:29 AM

pizza hut.

p'zone.

/thread.

7/19/2010 11:55:25 AM

Pizza Hut makes calzones?

7/19/2010 12:29:54 PM

^
No, they do not.

7/19/2010 12:32:52 PM

Whew. That was kind of a scary thought

7/19/2010 12:47:36 PM

ruckus pizza @ mission valley son

7/19/2010 12:48:37 PM

Quote :

"I have a thing for stromboli though, I need to go look up the difference."

Strombolis have pizza sauce, and do not have ricotta. They are usually of a vaguely cylindrical shape.
Calzones do not have pizza sauce inside (though it is often provided for dipping), and do have ricotta. They are usually of a half-moon, crescent, or triangular shape.

Eh?

7/19/2010 1:02:27 PM

Quote :

"They have them 60% of the time, everytime."

In practical terms, "generally" may mean "likely" (more than 50%), but it actually means something else.

Had I said "Calzones usually always have ricotta.", or "Calzones most likely always have ricotta.", your joke would apply.
But I'm talking about "in the generalized sense", which is distinct from "with a likelihood".

So, yes: Calzones generally always have ricotta.

7/19/2010 1:11:03 PM

Assaggio's at Glenwood/Duraleigh has the best Stromboli, Calzones are

7/19/2010 5:38:09 PM

^ Yeah the one time I went there and got a calzone I was and never went back.

7/19/2010 7:23:29 PM

I said Lilly's earlier, but I'll list the places I'll actually get a calzone/stromboli and enjoy it enough to order it again

Lilly's
Ruckus
Sauced


haven't had any other ones in raleigh that I would get again, and that is including that "stromboli's" place or whatever it is on edwards mill and sylvia's. Someone bothered to make a voting list for this, so here is the link- looks like Lilly's tops their list too. there are definitely some places on there I would try out though (notably in the top 5-10):

http://www.boorah.com/restaurants/17802/NC/Raleigh/best-calzone.html

7/19/2010 7:28:39 PM

It's good to know Schiano's still pumps out a good calzone. I'll have to go there when I'm home and get one.

7/19/2010 7:35:23 PM

yeah, I had never even heard of it before this thread- definitely going to be checking it out in the near future


ooo- Google just told me that it is right by the disc golf and golf store- I could make an entire evening of it

[Edited on July 19, 2010 at 7:38 PM. Reason : w]

7/19/2010 7:36:09 PM

I remember as a kid always being excited when my mom didn't feel like cooking so she'd get pepperoni calzones from Schiano's. She'd order 2 and everyone would get a half

7/19/2010 7:52:11 PM

amores used to have super dank calzones but i haven't been there since 2005

7/19/2010 8:23:31 PM

7/19/2010 9:30:46 PM