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Somebody Help This Poor Boy: Calzones in Dallas

Posted on August 16th, 2011 9:58am by Nancy Nichols
Filed under ChirpyChirpy, Cult Cuisine, Diets are stupid, Hippie revolutions, I Went to College for This?, Keep Dallas Douchey!, Nostalgia, Really?, Restaurant News, RudeDudes, Somebody Help, Yum is Dumb, cheep, pizza

This kinda sorta rude Disher sez:

Nancy, you all seem to write about Pizza, especially Jay Jerrier’s. Can you move your brain away from Cane Rosso and perhaps tell me about where to get a calzone?

I picked the wrong day to quit feeling chirpy, chirpy, cheep, cheep! (Warning, that song will attach to your brain forever.) And dude, you don’t need to capitalize the P in pizza. Calzone suggestions anyone? Jay?

17 comments

  1. Rocco’s has a good one. It’s huge, and comes with a salad. I like the build your own.

    @ 10:12 am on August 16, 2011

  2. Vito’s in Irving makes a freaking awesome (and gigantic) calzone. Apparently, Vito’s has locations in Highland Village and Frisco, but I can only attest to the one in Irving. Don’t go there if you’re going to be a jerk, though. The staff is so sweet.

    http://www.vitos-pizza.net/

    @ 10:19 am on August 16, 2011

  3. Joe’s Pizza. They are scattered around the Metroplex and owned by various members of a family.

    @ 10:20 am on August 16, 2011

  4. Taverna has a good one

    @ 10:29 am on August 16, 2011

  5. Speaking of, why has there been hardly any mention of Dough by the sidedish staff?

    @ 10:47 am on August 16, 2011

  6. I’ve heard Russo’s in Richardson does a good one and I know Maurizio’s in Coppell does too. They will even fry it for you…even better than baked. Also, Maurizio has a pizzaiolo friend from Naples coming in – I think in Sept – so that should be awesome.

    @ 10:48 am on August 16, 2011

  7. Mcpizza, your kidding right? Do a search. I have written SEVEN POSTS on the place. And they just opened 15 minutes ago.

    @ 11:15 am on August 16, 2011

  8. Porta di Roma downtown does a pretty good one.

    @ 11:21 am on August 16, 2011

  9. Wow 7 posts at least 2 hijacked from other blogs / sites. The anticipation from you for cane rosso’s opening was much different– just sayin.

    @ 11:24 am on August 16, 2011

  10. that Rocco’s rec has to be a fake…that place is awful.

    i can recommend Carmine’s (couple locations) as it’s pretty good. sometimes it’s the best i’ve ever had other times it tastes like it was made 2 days ago.

    you can always go to Cane Rosso and fold it and think you’re eating a calzone…

    @ 11:31 am on August 16, 2011

  11. Well, Mcpizza, full disclosure. We tend to give more ink to Dallas-based businesses. Dough is from San Antonio. Plus we call that sharing links with other sites.

    @ 11:42 am on August 16, 2011

  12. [...] Pizzeria has their own pretty sweet deal. You get free wine tastings with your pie (or calzone, whatever) from 6—8 PM. If you’re just an absolute pizza fiend, SideDish is reporting that [...]

    @ 11:55 am on August 16, 2011

  13. Isabella’s in Grand Prairie–yes GP, near the intersection of Carrier & Marshall.
    I second the recommendation for Joe’s. The Joe’s near my house makes a good calzone and serves it with a side of New Jersey attitude that’s fun in small doses.

    @ 12:11 pm on August 16, 2011

  14. Alfredo’s on Trinity Mills in Carrollton and Pastazio’s on Addison Circle.

    @ 2:01 pm on August 16, 2011

  15. I personally felt like I was seeing writeups about Dough everywhere. 7 posts is definitely more than enough. I would only expect 1 or 2.

    I’m not a huge Calzone fan, but the one at Grimaldi’s is the best Pizza (to appease the need for capitalization) I’ve had in Dallas. I actually somehow liked it better than the one in New York under Brooklyn Bridge. It could be the frame of reference (the pizzerias I have to compare it to in Dallas). I am also a New York thin crust pizza fan. Tastewise the sauce at Grimaldi’s is really the best in Dallas. And they don’t fail at the cheese to sauce ratio as so many in Dallas do. Ok I went off on a pizza tangent..

    @ 2:02 pm on August 16, 2011

  16. Campania’s in Southlake.

    @ 3:36 pm on August 16, 2011

  17. Brother’s Pizza on Travis Street at Fitzhugh does a very good calzone. And, they deliver.

    @ 5:18 pm on August 16, 2011