You’ve recently decided to click a link to review about a pizzeria. Congratulations for giving a damn about good pizza! Celebrate your good taste by reading this review, and then go check out Palace Pizza! (otherwise known as Palace Italian Restaurant)
Palace Pizza is hands down, above and beyond any chain delivery pizza slop shop.
For sake of argument, we’ll pretend that we all agree that the major categories of pizza are as follows; Italian, Sicilian, New York, Chicago, delivery chain, and white pizza. (Trust me, I am fully aware that I am overlooking Greek, Australian, and important subcategories such as Neapolitan and Margherita, but I digress.)
I’d say that Palace Pizza offers a pie that is New York style but has some remnants of Italian influences. The sandwiches here are also Italian/American, but let’s talk about pizza first!
Pictured above is “The Palace Supreme Pizza” which is their most expensive option. A large is priced at $19.95 and features your choice of up to 5 toppings and a fun blend of Parmigiano and mozzarella cheese. There are several other options of course, all of which feature a crust that is yummy doughy.
The sandwich rolls are yummy and doughy as well. The rolls almost taste as if they are imported from the Northeast, but as it turns out, they are from Sysco. Although sourcing food from Sysco is a far cry from new and exciting, we aren’t going to cry about it.
What we will cry about, however, is that the subs are only available during the lunch hours. We also want to cry because this pizzeria does not deliver. Don’t you dare call a delivery chain instead of making the drive to Palace Pizza! Avoid corporate imitation pizza at all costs. I could go on and on about the evil corporate lies and mass produced, imitation pizza. Instead, I’ll just post another pic of what Palace Pizza has to offer, because a picture is worth a thousand words.
That, my friends, is what a slice of pizza is supposed to look like. Palace Pizza makes up for the inconvenience of having to leave your house by offering 3 convenient locations in Lakeland that all have decent seating, decent bread sticks, Italian beer, and are pet friendly. If you are willing to make to make a short commute and spend some time, you may also be interested in the Italian styled entrees on their menu. The lasagna is the top seller at the Northside establishment.
This lasagna, along with most of the Italian dishes here, is at least 1% more exciting than the insipid “classic dishes” that the Olive Garden pumps out. The Italian style entrees here, and to some degree the pizza, are comparable to the several other Italian style pizzeria restaurants here in Lakeland. Just for fun, let’s try to name them all!
Il Forno, Romeo’s, Champino’s, Ciao Bella, Pizzeria Valdiano, and Antico’s
We realize that there are more pizzeria’s than this in Lakeland, but the one’s above are the only ones that offer both New York style pizza as well as Italian entrees. If we are missing one, please let us know!
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