The Full Story
A family recipe,
generations deep.
Pagliai's (pronounced Polly-Eyes) is truly a family restaurant with more than high chairs and coloring sheets. We offer a free indoor playpark and two game rooms for people of all ages. The Pagliai family is originally from Italy, and the recipes for our sauces, dough and meats are all truly Italian.
Many of our competitors say they have the best food products — but we know their dough may have come on a truck, several days old or frozen. Many use canned mushrooms and dehydrated vegetables. Most use frozen packaged meat available at any grocery store.
Compare that to our dough made daily, fresh ground beef sirloin, fresh ground Boston butts for Italian sausage, and our fresh sliced vegetables and mushrooms.
"Our ovens cook slow and more evenly to give you a cracker style crust that is firm and crunchy. Quality is the key — and it's a taste that conveyor ovens can never match."
Something For Everyone
Pagliai's Pizza and Italian Restaurant is a unique restaurant for all ages. We offer a complete menu and a complete buffet with pizza, pasta, salad bar, and other local favorites tailored toward the entire family — including our younger patrons and adults.
Our Ingredients
Italy has been influential in the recipes we use. These recipes have been used for generations in America and in Europe, originally used by the Pagliai family for their own meals and later extended for commercial use.
Our cheeses come from a Wisconsin-based Italian family that specializes in Italian cheeses. They contract with local farmers to purchase all of their milk and guarantee the farmer a set profit. To assure they get the best quality milk to make the best cheese each and every day, the farmer is required to feed their cows a special diet. Everyone benefits — the farmer, the manufacturer, the restaurant, and you.
The Best Tomatoes
Our tomato products are produced by an Italian family in California that owns the land, crop, equipment, and manufacturing plant. They guarantee no concentrated tomato products, and all the tomato crop is canned within 24 hours of picking. Their guarantee is that everything is always fresh.
Many of our competitors use concentrated tomato products — a process where the juices are removed producing a sludge, which is then shipped to be reconstituted with water, not tomato juice. We spice our fresh tomato products with our special recipes to give you a true Italian taste.
The Best Dough
All of our dough is made fresh daily with the best flour we can buy. We cook on brick with 600 to 650 degree gas heat to assure the taste of old-country cooking. Our freshly spiced sauce, excellent cheeses, quality meats, fresh vegetables, and brick ovens together produce a pizza that no one else in the area offers or can match.
Quality is the key to all of our products, with a taste that conveyor ovens can never match. Our ovens cook slow and more evenly to give you a cracker style crust that is firm and crunchy.