La Pizza Rina
Since I had a somewhat healthy lunch today, I thought I could indulge a bit more during dinner. So I called a friend and headed on over to La Pizza Rina.
This is a fairly small place that has room for about 35-40 people. It's usually very crowded, and tonight, there was just a tiny bit of breathing room.
It's been a while since I've been here, so tonight, I resort to having my favorites! For starters, it's a large antipasto salad (US$5.95).
This salad is huge! It's a bed of iceberg lettuce, topped with rolled ham and cheese, salami, pepperoni, pickled celery, onions, cauliflower and carrots, black olives, and slices of tomato and cucumber. Then, it's drizzled with La Pizza Rina's own homemade Italian-style dressing. This dressing is actually one of the best Italian dressings that I've ever had! Full of herbs and spices, but not over powered by either the olive oil or vinegar. Two thumbs way up!
Next, we both decide to order the lasagne with meat sauce (US$6.50).
What makes this dish special is the meat sauce. It's thick and chunky and is served topped with some melting mozarella cheese. After I load it up with some crushed red pepper and grated parmesian cheese...it was gone in no time!
The lasagne also comes with a side order of garlic bread.
Tonight, the bread is a let down. It doesn't seem to be cooked at all. I normally like it to be served nice and hot with a crisp and crunchy crust, but this arrives at our table just mildly warm and lacking any sort of crunchiness.
For the most part dinner tonight was a success. The bread, while not to my liking, can't really detract from the overall satisfaction that I got from eating this meal! After having both the lasagne and antipasto salad, I remember why this is one of my favorite places to eat homestyle Italian food.
La Pizza Rina
1425 South King Street
Telephone: 808.941.6634
mmmm lasagna rocks!!
Posted by: Min | June 13, 2004 at 09:05 PM
Min,
Yeah, I love lasagne too! This place makes one of the best because it's homestyle cooking, which is how I like it.
Posted by: Reid | June 13, 2004 at 09:39 PM
Are you sure La Pizza Rina has closed? I recently ate there this past weekend... I think?
Posted by: kitsy | December 09, 2005 at 04:00 PM
Hi Kitsy,
Thanks for stopping by the blog.
I made a correction to the post as I was also there this past weekend and found that they were not closed.
I put the notice up based upon an e-mail I received from one of my readers. It's a good thing that it wasn't true and thanks for reminding me to correct this.
Posted by: Reid | December 09, 2005 at 04:37 PM
Great food and prices. Excellent for a quick lunch.
Posted by: Rueben | January 06, 2007 at 02:54 PM
Rueben,
Welcome to the blog!
The prices here are a little higher than when I first starting coming here, but the food is good, which makes it reasonable.
Posted by: Reid | January 06, 2007 at 05:23 PM
The pizza here is quite good, New York style. Lots of cheese and good tomato sauce. The bag of buns and sweet rolls is a heck of a bargain too.
Posted by: Tommy Salami | June 11, 2008 at 11:28 AM