Serving Up a Variety That Won’t Break your Wallet
by Chaiel Schaffel
Danny Segal doesn’t want your arm or your leg. Most people visit the Vineyard with the expectation of spending substantial money, and this makes island life difficult for those on a budget. Dinner can cost upwards of $30 a plate in some places. Unlike other restaurants on the Vineyard, Edgartown Pizza doesn’t require you to surrender your favorite limb or take out a second mortgage to pay for lunch.With value, variety, and quality, Edgartown Pizza is always a welcome surprise.
Families visiting the Vineyard sometimes run into trouble when trying to feed their young ones. Choices for children are either too fancy, or too expensive. Edgartown Pizza puts on no airs with its meals. They serve real, honest food, and a lot of it. Children tend to like the restaurant’s no frills style of making children’s food. Parents tend to like the fact that feeding their children doesn’t leave a mammoth-sized hole in their pocket. Every item on the children’s menu costs less than $5. Here, both parties are satisfied.
With the prices as they are, one would expect a few sizes of pizza with a couple of bland toppings for a menu at Edgartown Pizza. However, in the words of owner Danny Segal, “It’s so much more than just pizza.”
The variety on the menu is astonishing. Juicy Teriyaki steak tips sit side by side with full Brazilian dinners, and buffalo wings co-mingle with Caesar salad. In order to make such an expansive menu, creative thought was necessary. The restaurant takes the products it receives at wholesale, and then spreads them out across the entire menu. For example, where a different restaurant would use Mozzarella as only a pizza topping, Edgartown Pizza casts it as a centerpiece in numerous different sandwiches, salads, and other menu items. In this way, it can keep cost down and variety up.
Most of all, the Vineyard is about relaxation. Many restaurants tend to forget this in their hectic, everyday lives. With great haste, they push customers in and hurry them out. Edgartown Pizza is all about the exact opposite. Owner Danny Segal invited everyone and anyone to “sit on our deck, and just relax!” Inexpensive, relaxed, and real are three qualities among many others that Edgartown Pizza has become a field expert in. For family friendly, fun, and varied eats, go to Edgartown Pizza-you’ll be shocked you didn’t know about it sooner.
Edgartown Pizza is located at 224 Edgartown Road, in The Triangle section of Edgartown. For more information, call 508-627-7770.
