L.A. Pizza Veloz is close to BC, offers tasty food at low prices
Gregory D. Cook
Issue date: 2/3/10 Section: Reviews
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For the last two years, L.A. Pizza Veloz has been serving up a variety of pizza, pasta and sandwiches. The restaurant is a transplant from Beverly Hills, Calif. and in my humble opinion we are lucky to have them.
The restaurant is open from 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. most days, later on the weekends. While they offer a surprisingly varied menu of dinner entrees such as linguini primavera with shrimp, chicken carbonara, and a full menu of pizzas and calzones, of particular interest to BC students is their lunch special. And that is where I will focus this review.
Weekdays, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., patrons can choose from 14 different pasta dishes or six types of sandwiches. The price is $5.99 and the portions are generous to say the least.
As my companion and I entered the 65-seat dining room, we were greeted by the kind of relaxed, casual atmosphere that should proceed a good Italian meal.
The dining room was decorated primarily in red, with humorous signs (Free beer tomorrow) hung on the walls and even a small shrine of sorts to BC football.
The service was prompt and friendly, and within three minutes we were eating the green salads that come with the lunch pasta dishes.
The salads were your typical green salad, nothing special here except for the notable freshness of the ingredients. There was no hint of brown around the edges of the lettuce and the cucumbers and tomatoes were crisp and flavorfull.
The normal selections of dressings were available. My companion had the Italian dressing, which tasted exactly as should be expected. I had the blue cheese dressing and was surprised to find that it was more of a creamy blue cheese, rather than the more traditional style with pieces of blue cheese mixed in.
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