Review - La Villa

There seems to be a shortage of cheap pizza places in our neighborhood, so we do of course the next best thing and go to a restaurant. La Villa is kind of like the California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) chains with a restaurant part, a bar area, TV screens that show nothing but sports and wood-fired ovens for their pizzas. So on one of those pizza craving evenings, we stopped there and ordered a small Speciale pizza, a slice of red velvet cake and consumed some beer while we waited for our to-go order. Our "small" pizza was easily enough for 3-4 people and my husband was keen on the meat choices so we shared that one. The toppings were fennel sausage, pepperoni (not my favorite), homemade meatballs, mushrooms, caramelized onions, roasted peppers and mozzarella. Generally I just like ham or prosciutto on mine but this was surprisingly good. Good enough in fact that I would order it again.
Their red velvet cake was moist and thankfully not as sweet as most of them.
The ambience inside was nice, mellow and pretty much just like CPK would be.
Overall, a success for our first visit. Keep you posted on future ones.