Let's Do Lunch! Enjoy a Mid-day Meal at Li'l Rizzo's

When it's nearly noon and your stomach starts rumbling, you want something that not only tastes great but also fills you up enough that you're not snacking again an hour later. Our Lake of the Ozarks Italian restaurant & bar has a long list of lunch specials available daily from 11 am-3 pm, plus we always add amazing daily specials to that extensive list of choices too. 

The dining room at Li'l Rizzo's opens each day at 11:00 am. If you don't have a long enough lunch break to enjoy a relaxing meal here with us or have a hungry group back at the office or the house that you need to feed too, order Li'l Rizzo's to-go online instead. Either way, here are the tasty choices we'll have waiting for you. 

Salad AND...
We offer 5 different combination lunches that include both a small-sized portion of Li'l Rizzo's "World Famous" House Salad plus another one of our popular menu items. Your choices include: 

  • Soup and Salad
    Your choice of minestrone soup or the soup of the day and a small house salad. 
  • Toasted Ravioli and Salad
    Beef ravioli deep-fried to a golden brown and topped with parsley flakes and Parmesan cheese served with a side of meat sauce and a small house salad.
  • Pizza and Salad
    An 8-inch, 2-topping pizza with a small house salad.
  • Wings and Salad
    6 jumbo wings of your choice and a small house salad.
  • Meatball and Salad
    Our homemade 6-ounce meatball and a small house salad. 

Hot Italian Sub
Italian roast beef, smoked turkey breast, and pastrami served hot on a hoagie with our house dressing, melted Provel cheese, and green onions. Served with chips or fries.

Tuscan Chicken
Grilled chicken breast smothered in a blend of mozzarella and Provel cheese, lettuce, tomato, and mayo. Served with chips or fries.

Hamburger
A half-pound of ground chuck cooked to perfection and served with fries or chips. 

Rizzo Burger
Our amazing burger topped with sautéed onions, mushrooms, bacon, and melted Provel cheese. Served with fries or chips. 

Chicken Modiga
Fried chicken tender on a bed of angel hair pasta topped with melted Provel cheese, mushrooms, bacon, and fresh chopped garlic in our homemade white wine, lemon butter sauce. Served with house salad.

Chicken Parmesan
Hand-breaded, deep-fried chicken tender on a bed of angel hair pasta smothered in marinara sauce, topped with a blend of mozzarella and Provel cheese, then baked. Served with a house salad.

Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
Spaghetti noodles topped with our homemade chunky meat sauce. Served with a house salad.

Spaghetti & Meatball 
Spaghetti noodles and meat sauce topped with a homemade meatball and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and parsley. Served with a house salad

Fettuccine Alfredo
Wide flat noodles in our homemade Alfredo sauce. Served with a house salad

Baked Mostaccioli
Tubular noodles and meat sauce topped with our homemade Béchamel sauce and a blend of Italian cheeses and baked to perfection. Served with a house salad.

Cavatelli Con Broccoli
Shell-shaped noodles, mushrooms, and broccoli in our creamy homemade Alfredo sauce. Served with a house salad.

Lasagna
Our lasagna is homemade with layers of pasta, meat sauce, ricotta cheese, and Italian sausage, topped with a blend of mozzarella and Provel cheese, then baked. Served with a house salad

There are many other items on our menu that can be ordered during lunchtime too, like our extensive appetizer list and the best pizza at the Lake of the Ozarks. If you want to give any of the menu items above a try, though, you've got to order them before 3:00 pm. Of course, if you happen to be hungry after that time, we've got another long list of irresistible Li'l Rizzo's dinner entrees ready to whip up for you in the kitchen, so no worries! 


(*Disclaimer: Li'l Rizzo's food and beverage items are subject to change at any time and may not be available at both locations.) 


Location: Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, USA

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