The success of this burgeoning local chain of pizza shops rests on a menu that aims at a mainstream taste for a clean, pretty pizza, big portions, and flexibility in its combinations. Also here are pasta dishes, salads and sandwiches. While all are similar, some locations are owned by franchisees who might alter the menu a little, with a resulting blip in consistency. The Italian Pie is a great place for families, because the prices are low, the portions large, and a child's palate is more or less where they're aiming.
A local chain of pizza specialists, the Italian Pie has been expanding rapidly around New Orleans for the past few years, and is now selling franchises in other nearby cities. The first one opened in 1992 on the edge of the CBD, near City Hall, and immediately grabbed a large take-out business. The locations since then have been full-fledged restaurants.
Most of the restaurants have full service in pleasant, bright dining rooms. Most Italian Pie locations are slicker and better looking than most pizza parlors.
The best pizzas are the basics, as opposed to options like getting every meat in the house. The pizza is distinctly better than the pasta (which is not bad) and incomparably better than the salads and sandwiches.
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