wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
tschudi All American 6195 Posts user info edit post |
Lilly's. Or Pepper's in CH 7/18/2010 11:34:07 PM |
armorfrsleep All American 7289 Posts user info edit post |
The pig in a poke at Lilly's is incredible. 7/18/2010 11:36:21 PM |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Skack All American 31140 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
armorfrsleep All American 7289 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
saps852 New Recruit 80068 Posts user info edit post |
i used to LOVE pizzamericas calzones
also ruckus has HUGE ones 7/19/2010 12:34:39 AM |
omgyouresexy All American 1509 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
^^^ 7/19/2010 2:17:08 AM |
vinylbandit All American 48079 Posts user info edit post |
straightedge at lilly's is funny 7/19/2010 2:21:10 AM |
khcadwal All American 35165 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
Who eats salad at a pizza restaurant in the first place 7/19/2010 2:33:30 AM |
craptastic All American 6115 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
armorfrsleep All American 7289 Posts user info edit post |
^^^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 |
khcadwal All American 35165 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
SymeGuy69 All American 11036 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
Ahh yeah I meant filling. My bad 7/19/2010 10:38:53 AM |
Wadhead1 Duke is puke 20897 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Skwinkle burritotomyface 19447 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "spinach pizza wrap " |
I want this.7/19/2010 10:42:49 AM |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
^^ 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 |
Skack All American 31140 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
quagmire02 All American 44225 Posts user info edit post |
lynnwood grill 7/19/2010 10:50:00 AM |
BobbyDigital Thots and Prayers 41777 Posts user info edit post |
Schiano's makes a fantastic calzone. 7/19/2010 10:56:33 AM |
mofopaack Veteran 434 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Jen All American 10527 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Stein All American 19842 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Biofreak70 All American 33197 Posts user info edit post |
i second everyone who says Lilly's calzone 7/19/2010 11:13:53 AM |
indy All American 3624 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
^ 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 |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
there's a place up on pool road... pretty good calzones... yum 7/19/2010 11:36:34 AM |
Stein All American 19842 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
omgyouresexy All American 1509 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
JeffreyBSG All American 10165 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
justinh524 Sprots Talk Mod 27835 Posts user info edit post |
pizza hut.
p'zone.
/thread. 7/19/2010 11:55:25 AM |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
Pizza Hut makes calzones? 7/19/2010 12:29:54 PM |
indy All American 3624 Posts user info edit post |
^ No, they do not. 7/19/2010 12:32:52 PM |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
Whew. That was kind of a scary thought 7/19/2010 12:47:36 PM |
XSMP All American 16674 Posts user info edit post |
ruckus pizza @ mission valley son 7/19/2010 12:48:37 PM |
richthofen All American 15758 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
indy All American 3624 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
TJB627 All American 2110 Posts user info edit post |
Assaggio's at Glenwood/Duraleigh has the best Stromboli, Calzones are 7/19/2010 5:38:09 PM |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
^ Yeah the one time I went there and got a calzone I was and never went back. 7/19/2010 7:23:29 PM |
Biofreak70 All American 33197 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Biofreak70 All American 33197 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
twoozles All American 20735 Posts user info edit post |
amores used to have super dank calzones but i haven't been there since 2005 7/19/2010 8:23:31 PM |
JTMONEYNCSU All American 24529 Posts user info edit post |
7/19/2010 9:30:46 PM |