text: I am not a Las Vegas local and on my trip there last night a wellmeaning acquaintance sent me out to Summerlin to find an old bookshop manned by geezers I could not find the place erroneous address incomplete directions and I ended up somewhat lost a little cold and very very hungry So I fired up the heater in the rental car Yelped nearby businesses with my smartphone and ended up deciding to hit Rosatis pizza After all the rating was a solid starsnn Rosatis is located on what seems to be a major road through Summerlin and its clientele are pleasingly nonthreatening family types of a few different colors who have the air of regulars The girl behind the counter was friendly nice helpful The restaurant is clean and even the cooks had pretty immaculate aprons I was not scared that I was risking any sort of injury or illness or cockroach sightings by being there which is more than I can say for my sojourn the Excalibur Hotel on the Strip but I digress Further it seems to have won a readers poll for Best Pizza in Las Vegas Weekly So I ordered pizza right Nope I ordered a calzone which is basically a pizza folded in half with toppings as stuffings nn And when I write a pizza folded in half with toppings as stuffings that is exactly what I mean After ordering a Spinach Calzone and only finishing a little less than half of it I the counter girl told me that at Rosatis their calzones are made with a MEDIUMSIZED PIZZA DOUGH and stuffed accordingly I write this not to criticize but to warn you that you are not going to be getting what I expected which was a sanelyportioned calzone that would satisfy one person who was not entering an eating competition It arrived huger than my plate with pizza sauce on the side as a garnish and was probably stuffed with at least three pounds of cheese I am not joking I really do think it was three pounds of cheesenn As far as taste I would have to rate the calzone as way too salty to be truly enjoyable My favorite part of it was the closure part of the dough which was the only part that did not go from salty crust into salty cheese and how the heck did this happen salty spinach I am a huge fan of doughy things which most calzones supply very well but this one only featured in the cute braidedlooking closure nn But did that stop me from eating half of the monstrouslysized calzone No it did not Yes I ate a pound and a half of cheese some dough and some saline spinach And I enjoyed the cheese and the doughthe spinach threw me with its brackishness The aggressively salted dough plus the salty cheese needed a some sort of plain foil to neutralize their pungency The pizza sauce did not help matters Though a little sweet of course it was also salty too and rather unfortunately reminded me of something from a jar from before grocery stores offered pasta pizza sauces that were actually something you would want on your pizza or pastann If I am making this sound awful it really was not I would not have eaten so much plus taken the rest home and eaten a large part of the remnants for breakfast Plus somehow I remain convinced that if I would gotten this combo on a pizza and not in a calzone it would have tasted better For one thing much less surface of the dough looking like it needs seasoning since most of a pizza crust is covered in sauce and toppings I almost wonder if the cooks thought Well it looks so bare What do we have Salt That tastes good with everythingnn And I came home today and got what I thought would be a taco but turned out to be a glorified quesadilla from a local Mexican place that I will also be giving a definite stars Oy I do not know if I ever want to eat cheese againnn I wish I could give this place stars for the friendly service and nice ambiance but the saline spinach knocked it down at least a half point And there are no star ratings on Yelp But if I am ever lost hungry in Summerlin again I might go there and try the pizza just to see if I am right about my hunch and if I agree with the palates of the readers of Las Vegas Weekly