Pizza Night! (twice)

Okay, so we ate a a pizza place two nights in a row.  (This is not your blog!  Don't judge us!)  


Our places for pies were Tony's Pizza and Milton's Pizza and Pasta.


Tony's is literally right across from our neighborhood and we eat across the street every week being the trivia junkies we are.  We wanted cheap and quick on a Friday night because I work so early on the weekends and set UrbanSpoons to $ in North Raleigh.

There are three sizes of pies you can order.  We are the saps who ordered the medium.  The small is PLENTY for four people let alone two.  Needless to say, we had leftover slices.  But the pizza remained true to the promise of New York style.  Everything on the menu was true NY Italian, the calzones, the garlic knots, etc.  Big slices, fresh toppings, not bad.  The crust was good.  There was a little more grease than I liked, but nothing I couldn't blot with the paper towels they had on the table.  I love that when I'm eating messy food.  

That is a big freakin' pizza!

The inside of the restaurant was cozier than I expected.  Lots of families were there on a Friday night.  We saw at least 2 sleepover parties.  (We've been asked to discuss child-friendliness of restaurants we visit.  This is not something we pay attention to.  But we will now for our reproducing friends.)


All the families on a Friday meant it  took FOREVER to get our pizza.  It was getting a little ridiculous after awhile and I was getting what we call "Hangry".  (That's a combination of hungry and angry when my blood sugar gets low.)  


When we finally got our pizza it was good and did more than cure low blood sugar, it raised my cholesterol sufficiently.  We enjoyed our caloric gorging so much at Tony's, we came back a week or two later after sledding with our awesome friends on a snow day.

Me, Trish, Sam, and Erin before taking the plunge into Highway 70

The next night.....

Our dear friend Amy Milslagle is a fine-wine-drinking-foodie and if it were up to her we'd dine at some of the Triangle's finest places.  But our Saturday evening's dining locale wasn't up to her.  It was up to Ashley, her five-year-old-mac-and-cheese-loving-Kindergartener.  As fate would have it, Greyson shook and landed on Ashley's pick, Milton's Pizza and Pasta.  

We understood why this was Ashley's pick.  It's a huge menu with tons of options for kids and families.  We hadn't seen her in awhile and she told us all about Santa's visit as she sipped on milk and we had beer at the bar.  When we got our table she kept asking for Jell-o.  This seemed odd to Greyson and I but I cracked up laughing when we understood what she meant.  There is a salad bar.  She had Captian's Wafers and Jell-o pudding as her salad as any Elementary school kid would.   It was a small salad bar.  But surprisingly fresh with actual salad for me.

Our pizza was good.  In honor of our Carolina Hurricanes, my hockey loving hubby got The Stanley Cup Pizza piled high with Canadian Bacon and Bleu cheese.  I got El Pollo Loco with BBQ chicken and jalapenos.  It was pretty good.  My fave BBQ chicken pizzas are still the Funky Q Chicken at Mellow Mushroom and the Barbequed Chicken Pizza at Lynnwood Grill in Raleigh.

The Stanley Cup Pizza

(We need the Canes to come sample this pie to get some inspiration to play better this year.)

Decent pizza, but the best part was hearing how happy Amy was in a new relationship.  Maybe we'll shake and eat with her and "Mr. Right" soon.   Ashley made our second leftover pizza box of the week more beautiful than we could've imagined with her superior art in crayon.

That's amore!

Amy