Located at
2431 Eastchester Drive in High Point, Lubrano’s offers pizza and Italian
cuisine for lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday. Food specials change
regularly, and lunch specials are available on weekdays. Delivery and online
ordering are supported.
Housed toward
the end of a somewhat dodgy plaza, Lubrano’s looks like the classic, hasn’t
changed in thirty years, good for a slice neighborhood pizza joint, the kind of
place the locals swear makes the best ______ but first-timers think looks like
a dump. There may be shades of truth in this description, but it does not fully
do Lubrano’s justice. Get past the dated aesthetics, and you’ll find a higher-than-expected
caliber of red sauce fare.
My wife
and I stopped by around 12:30 on a Saturday to find Lubrano’s mostly empty. The
lone server on duty was new to the job, but he handled himself well. Lubrano’s
menu offers pizzas (regular and Sicilian), calzones, and strombolis as well as
some promising-sounding chicken dishes, but we were craving pasta. Thus came an
order of a fried calamari starter followed by a shared (no split plate charge) Merone’s
combination (lasagna, eggplant, and manicotti with sauce and cheese).
The food
came out quickly, and there were more hits than misses. The calamari was nicely
breaded and neither tough nor greasy albeit fairly bland. A few squeezes of
lemon, however, made a big difference. The entrée came with a side salad that
was very basic and mostly greens. Complimentary bread, on the other hand, was a
lot better: fresh, hot, and seemingly homemade. The tomato sauce (basil notes
and no cloying sweetness) and manicotti filling were similarly above average.
One thing that wasn’t well above average was the price: our app was $9 and our entrée
was $15, and neither portion was small.
Lubrano’s
may be a takeout rather than a dine-in option in the future, but no matter what
the form, a return is in our future.
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