text: The short Fine for a neighborhood dropin offering moderately priced pizza pasta subs and a few Sicilian sandwiches calzones as well as some Greek options like gyros and baklava but food is not terribly excitingand neither are the duecor or staff nnThe long Located on the northwest corner of nd St and Thomas this little hole in the wall has been serving pizza Italian and Greek food since The restaurant interior is straightforward and frugalyou walk in and up to the counter that fronts the kitchen peer into the cold case to the right holding Greek treats like baklava or head to the little dining room to the left filled with a handful of nondescript tables and chairs nnDiVitos is open Monday through Friday from am to pm and closed Sunday nThe offer weekday daily lunch specials for under Pasta dishes for including side salad and garlic bread Pizza starting at for a cheese nnHouse salad was crisp The wings hit the spot without covering it They were flabby skinnedcooked through but not fried to give it a crust I was not expecting it to be battered or anything but I like a quick fry to hold the skin to the meat The wing sauce was good enougha bit of heat a bit of tang and down it went We ordered Mamas Special Pepperoni sausage green pepper olives mushrooms onions No love for the pizza crust It was baked just right with some nice spotty oven char on the bottom and the crust looked like it would be great laced with big air bubbles but there was no chew I was not expecting a big bubble gum bite but I like a bit of chew and with that chew some of the flavor that tells me the dough was allowed to rest for awhile to develop This dough yielded instantly with a bite then quickly disintegrated in my mouth as if it were Wonder Bread In a backwards way it was left to be carried by the toppings but alas those were subparthe lightly spread sauce just right in quantity bland in quality mozzarella sausage black olives mushroomsit was all off the supermarket shelves The Sicilian meatball sandwich had the same crust and it was more obvious here in plain sight but still a wallflower Again more rise time and a sprinkle of salt in the dough and maybe we could have been friends I liked the innards even though it was not the big globes of meatballs sweating into marinara that I was expecting The meatball meatjust nicely seasoned lean ground beefwas scooped in filling every inch of the sandwichs cavern no annoying air bubble cubby holes of emptiness and sprinkled with mozzarella Again not great but adequate and everything I wish a Hot Pocket could be if not the calzone I would expected The lasagna I especially wanted to love especially with its menu tag the best you have ever tasted Here I loved the compositionnot too much noodle not too much cheese not too much sauce inside though the thing was really swimming in sauce when I received it I easily sopped that up with the very tasty and perfectly crisp garlic bread though I liked whatever herbs they seasoned their ricotta with and that they seasoned the ricotta at all since it is too often neglected in lasagna dishes I just felt like the sauce was missing something and it fell just flat Maybe a few glugs of wine or some minced garlic would have given it the light bite I was looking for The desserts were also fine The cannoli in its fried she will was not traditional filled with a slightly starchy vanilla pastry cream instead of sweetened ricotta but it was crispy and creamy and sweet The tiramisu was tasty but I could not taste any Marsala in the zabaglione so I declared it decidedly kidfriendly nnOne of the best things about DiVitos food is that it kind of tasted better the next day reheated shrugs Maybe it is one of those things that needs a night to allow the flavors to meld With decent prices and decent food especially when a craving hits I will not mind going back to further test this theory I wish I could give them stars Meh it is ok