After a strong recommendation from my sister and brother-in-law, Taylor and I stopped at Dulono’s Pizza for lunch. Dulono’s has been around since the late 50’s and the interior is a compilation of weird stuff from old signs, posters, prints to a large fish. My favorite, which I unfortunately did not get a photo of, was a print of the Minneapolis skyline at night which was modified with tiny lights to simulate the blinking red lights at the top of the skyscrapers and little yellow lights along the interstate and bridge. So strange.
Anyway, the place was almost empty on a Saturday around lunch but Dulono’s gets packed on the weekend evenings as they have live bluegrass music — there’s a full stage in the back.
Taylor and I got a large pepperoni pizza. It was a bit of a greasy pie but it was pretty tasty. The airy crust on the edges cracked a bit when biting in. The cheese was thick and gooey. Not much sauce here and the pepperoni was crispy and spicy except for the ones that got drenched in grease towards the middle. Satisfying overall and quite filling.
A funny place with some history and quite decent midwestern style party-cut pizza. There’s some road construction in front of them right now but don’t let that deter you — they have a free parking lot.
Dulono’s Pizza
607 W Lake St
Minneapolis, MN 55408
612-827-1726
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Dulano’s is also the home of a monstrous meatball sandwich. It is very large and very tasty. It will also come swimming in a sea of cheese, a very tasty sea of cheese.
Posted 25 May 2008 at 07:12 ¶Dulono’s has a pizza with pickles, hamburger, and onions; I think it’s called the All American pizza and it’s fantastic.
Posted 25 May 2008 at 09:06 ¶ben, that sounds awesome! I might have to go out of my way to try that.
Posted 25 May 2008 at 12:45 ¶Pizza and Bluegrass: a winning combination.
Posted 27 May 2008 at 00:24 ¶I have been wanting to try this place, now I can’t wait. Have you had Toppers? It is kind of across the street (not a big fan). Caffrey’s next to the Cowboy Bar is my favorite sandwich place here in MN.
Posted 27 May 2008 at 08:12 ¶I’ve recently ceased consuming Dulono’s pizza based on comments of business owner who’s establishment I frequent every month or so near the Lyn-Lake intersection. Said comments relate to the (Dulono’s) owner or manager or whatever and where he keeps his dog while he’s working. I won’t say anything more, but if you do order from Dulono’s avoid the green peppers.
Posted 27 May 2008 at 08:39 ¶On the sandwich tip, I concur: Caffrey’s is outstanding.
You gotta order extra sauce, thats their specialty. The green peppers surprisingly don’t taste like dog shit.
Posted 27 May 2008 at 18:48 ¶I had a pizza here, think it was everything or the works or something…regardless…it had banana peppers and it was awesome.
Also if your in the mood for a weird pizza-ish dinner head over to Vescios in SLP and order Sids Special Pizza it has all manners of meat, roasted green red and yellow peppers. Its quite tasty although the crust is soggy and its served on a rectangular shaped plastic platter ala school lunch.
Beware this is more a pizza-ish casserole than an actual pizza, were talking fork n knife territory.
Start out with a Supreme Antipasto and a Peroni…its a nice meal.
Posted 28 May 2008 at 12:11 ¶The pizza and atmosphere sound interesting but I’m curious about the “bluegrass”. Is it every Friday and Saturday night, and are they any good?
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