Lisa's Family Pizzeria serves homemade meatballs and seven-layer lasagna, plus wings, pizza, calzones, wraps, sandwiches, paninis and pasta. Lisa's offers delivery and catering services throughout Wakefield, Melrose, Saugus, Reading and Stoneham.
This homey little deli has its own free lot, convenient during busy lunchtimes. Workers churn out sub after sub to a long line of lunch customers, and the roast beef is especially good. Most of the business is take-out, but there are several plastic booths and a TV for those who aren't in a hurry.
Slice Pizza and More, located on Lowell Street, lives up to its name by serving up freshly prepared, jumbo slices of pizza daily. This family-run restaurant specializes in homemade, Italian-style pizza of both the thin-crust and thick Sicilian varieties. Opened just in 2009, Slice Pizza and More has already established itself as a popular lunch stop for community members and local workers alike. The menu also includes a variety of hot and cold subs, fresh salads, calzones and pasta. It offers call-ahead and take-out orders, eat-in options, with a few booths and a flat-screen television in the dining room, and even provides catering services for parties and functions.
This little pizza joint offers a wide range of slices, subs and salads and is easily found under its bright yellow sign. Pizzas spin in a heater on the counter and white smocked cooks carry new pies from the ovens on long wooden boards. This is a menu-above-the-register kind of place, and while there are a few booths, customers generally opt for takeout or delivery. Nick and Ally also do catering.
While its signage and location may seem a better fit for a deli or sub joint, Morena is a sit-down Italian eatery with a focus on organic, rustic Italian dishes. It offers a wide selection of soups made each morning in addition to a menu stocked with classic Italian dishes such as wood fired pizza, linguine and veal picatta. Morena provides catering as well, but its main focus is on its dining room. Everything here is cooked the old-fashioned way.
Wakefield House of Pizza is a homey pizza restaurant located on quiet Tuttle Street; free parking is plentiful outside. The owners have been throwing dough since 1972 and have an entrenched customer base here in Wakefield, most diners stand at the counter and talk with the cooks instead of watching the TV. Slices and subs are the order of the day here, and the management wouldn't have it any other way.