FAQs About Our Food

Yes we do, but, they are called Philly Cheesesteaks. This is a matter of semantics, but as someone that grew up eating cheesesteaks, it's a difference to me. Even the bread is better and I import the same bread from Philly that I had when I was younger.
Yes, we sell good ol' submarine sandwiches, or as we call them, hoagies. I am from South Jersey originally, and hoagies are what we ate growing up. So, that's what we sell. Same thing as a sub, footlong, hero, etc, just better, in my opinion. We import the rolls Amorosa, which are used in Jersey and Philly for cheesesteaks and hoagies.
For those asking the question legitimately, any food service establishment should only sell fresh food, as it's a requirement by the state. We follow all protocols, and only sell fresh food, and are very careful about the quality of all food we sell. Everything we offer is either fresh or frozen.

This answers another question we sometimes get, like "can I add fresh broccoli on my pizza?" My first thought is "why?" and my second is that this is only the 2nd person we've heard ask it in the 2 years we have been here (UPDATE: I put my food in my mouth. Yes, we now have broccoli, and it tastes great on a pizza, and it's now been 4 years. Anyway, onto your scheduled response that is now a few years old)... So, this is why we won't sell fresh broccoli, etc. (lie, we do now in 2025), because if we are only open 2-3 days per week (also a lie, we are now open 7 days per week), it's not going to hold over those days we are closed as something in the freezer would. If we don't use sauce, cheese, etc. by the closing time, and if we are not open for 5 more days or doing any special events, all of that gets tossed. If we were open full time, this wouldn't need to happen, but again, this is all part of what we answer on our business FAQs.
 
The funny thing is, the only people who have asked this were actually trolls on social media and when I trace back their account and whom they follow, I have found in every single case it was someone related to, or good friends with, a so-called "competitor." Further, they never ask this to get an answer, they make a comment like "their food can't be good, they're never open!" This is the way some people feel is an appropriate strategy to market their business; having friends and family insult the competition on social media.  Seems unethical to me, but this is the way some people are.
 
So, next time someone wants to troll our social media page, please, find something else to do while "adulting" at home.
Yes, yes, and another yes for good measure. We have a plant-based option for everything on our menu. Heck, we even have a version of our Mikey's Meatlovers pizza for vegans! It's called the Donatello's Meatlovers (Not!) pizza. We have vegan cheesesteaks, meatball subs, etc. If you are a vegan or have a vegan who is tired of eating at places that only treat your diet as an afterthought, you've come to the right place!
We serve the food we believe we would be best equiped to make. We don't serve fish, because I think there are likely better cooks equiped to sell fish. We don't sell X food because there are people that specialize in X. We sell food that we know we cook well and have something to offer that appeals to people visiting a pizza restaurant.

Also, we don't sell beer because we want to be a family restaurant and aren't interested in the liability or even more added insurance costs of selling alcohol. Insurance is already high, we don't need the added costs of alcohol as well.

This should answer the questions we sometimes get:

Customer: Hi, do you have any tuna?
Me: No, I'm sorry, we don't.
Customer: Hi, okay, can you make a tuna fish sandwich?
Me: No, we don’t have tuna, so we can’t make a tuna fish sandwich.
Customer: How about a fried fish sandwich?
Me: No, we don't have that either.
Customer: Do you have any sushi?
Me: No, we don't sell sushi.
Customer: Do you have any chow mein?
Me: No, we don't have that either.
Customer: Hmm, do you have any tacos?
Me: No, we don't have any tacos.
Customer: Maybe some Pad Thai?
Me: No, I'm sorry, we don't have that.
Customer: Do you have any Pho?
Me: No, we don't have Pho either.
Customer: How about some curry?
Me: No, we don't sell curry.
Customer: Do you have any Eggs Benedict?
Me: No, we don't serve breakfast foods.
Customer: How about a Lobster Bisque?
Me: No, we don't have that either.
Customer: Do you have any escargot?
Me: No, we definitely don't have escargot.
Customer: Do you have any Beef Wellington?
Me: No.
Customer: Do you have any oysters?
Me: No.
Customer: Caviar?
Me: No.
Customer: Foie Gras?
Me: No.
Customer: How about some Tacos?
Me: No.
Customer: Chiles en Nogada?
Me: No.
Customer: Burritos?
Me: No.
Customer: Quesadillas?
Me: No.
Customer: Spanakopita?
Me: No.
Customer: Strawberry flavored milk curds from sweden?
Me: No. We only carry the items that are listed on our menu, which are mostly pizzas, subs, cheesesteaks, chicken fingers, and the regular stuff you would get at a pizza place.

* Side note: While I understand people have specific food preferences, I'm not sure why someone would ask if we carry things that most pizza places do not, and other pizza places do carry these things, I'm not sure they would be that good of a place if they are simply a jack of all trades. Even our plant-based vegan options are all based on traditional pizza place foods, and not exotic dishes from other countries. We focus on what we do well, and do not believe in adding every single possible option to our menu. We already have 2 refrigerators, 4 freezers, and just simply do not have the space for every possible option on earth.

No, we will never serve food rare or undercooked. First, we would be required to post that we sell rare or undercooked meat so that we can avoid liability according to the health code. Then, we would pay even higher insurance, which is already high due to insurance companies being lame. So, no, we won't serve undercooked or rare food.

Sometimes people ask us to lightly cook their pizza, we will "lightly" cook your pizza, but that will still be fully cooked and lighter than traditional NY style pizza that we serve, but it will not be light or undercooked. There are lots of other places in NH that serve bland, undercooked pizza that the toppings just fall off when you pick up a slice, you are more than welcome to try those places out. They look serving pizza like that, we do not. We make hand-tossed NY-style pizza. The kind you get on the streets of NY or Jersey. The difference for us is we do a little more with seasoning and olive oil to make our pizzas special.

So, if you want a great pizza or a fully cooked meal in general, come one, come all. If you want some undercooked food, go elsewhere that they don't mind the liability and increased cost of insurance.

Probably not. Maybe, but again, probably not. We have had people come in with request based on other places they've eaten at, as if that place's menu item is the default. For example, we've had 2 or 3 people act surprised that calzones will have a mixture of mozzarella cheese and ricotta cheese; that is the traditional way a traditional calzone is made. We've also had people expect that sauce would automatically be inside a calzone, no, that's not the way a calzone is made. Sauce is on the outside, you dip your calzone. If you want to ask us for sauce, fine we can put sauce on the inside, but the fact is, that's not a calzone. We didn't make up this rule, nor is it a rule by the ancient gods of pizza. It's simply the way it's made. The point is, people will assume because they go to a place and something is made a certain way at that place, everywhere else should make it that exact same way. We add seasoning and high-end ingredients to our food to make things taste great, and we mainly do traditional Italian cuisine. Though we will deviate to make things taste better, we don't deviate in what is the traditional calzone, or traditional pizza or traditional cheesesteak, etc. If you think that we should pour a bunch of honey on top of a pizza, you can request that, but that's not the way a pizza is usually made. If you think that we should pour tons of hot sauce all over your pizza, we can do that, but again, that is not the way a traditional pizza is made. There's nothing wrong with requesting it, we'll do it any way you want it, but it's the expectation that it should be done that way automatically. This should not have to be explained, but unfortunately, it often does. When we first offered Philly cheesesteaks we automatically offered cheese whiz, that is the traditional way it is made. 99% of people wanted provolone. So, we pretty much stopped offering wiz, in favor of provolone. One guy comes in, orders a cheesesteak, then complains because it has provolone and the place he goes to always uses American. If he wanted American we would have no problem putting American cheese on it, but he did not ask for American cheese. Instead, he said that is the standard way it is made. It's not, that's the way the other place makes it because American cheese is cheaper probably. The point of all of this is to clarify that no matter where you go, you should make sure you ask for what you want, if the place offers it that way. Do not assume everyone makes food the way you make it at home or the way someone else makes it at some deli or gas station that serves food. We do strange requests all the time and have no problem doing it, in fact, sometimes we like some strange stuff on our pizza as well. So we're okay with doing that, we're just asking that you don't assume, because everyone knows when you assume, you make an... Well you probably know the rest.

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