Li'l Rizzo's Italian Restaurant

Halloween is coming up this weekend. It's a holiday associated with spooky things and lots of candy. Since we don't want to scare you when you dine at our Lake of the Ozarks Italian restaurant & bar , we've decided to focus on the sweet treats we've got to offer instead. The next time you "treat" yourself to lunch or dinner at Li'l Rizzo's Italian Restaurant , save some room for these tasty items.   Gummy Bear Pizza For this unique dish, we combine dessert with dinner for a kids' menu item that children simply cannot resist! It's an 8-inch version of our incredible cheese pizza that comes with a side of gummy bears. Once those sweet bears are placed on top of the pizza, they melt in the most intriguing way, creating a meal that tastes great. If the kids at your table will allow you to try it, we highly suggest that you do! Dessert We offer different dessert specials daily, from cheesecake to tiramisu, and more. Be sure to ask your server wh...

  Meatballs have a special place in the hearts (or rather, stomachs) of most of the diners at Li'l Rizzo's Italian restaurant . That's because we've taken special care to create a meatball that not only tastes amazing but also is so large, only one is needed for each plate of spaghetti!  This particular meatball is so incredible, it's even earned itself a spot on the appetizer menu at our Lake of the Ozarks Italian restaurant . (You can get that, along with all of our other appetizers, for half-price during Happy Hour every Monday-Friday from 3-6 pm and all day on Sundays too!)  Meatballs Around the World You're probably most familiar with meatballs made from ground beef, but the definition states that a meatball can be made by rolling any type of ground meat into a ball, sometimes with other ingredients. It can be fried, baked, steamed, or braised in sauce.    As partial as we are to Li'l Rizzo's meatballs, it's still interesting to see how others m...

  Last week's blog was all about the incredible pizzas we serve at Li'l Rizzo's Italian Restaurant because October is National Pizza Month. You've got plenty of reasons to celebrate pasta in October as well because this Saturday, October 17 happens to be National Pasta Day , and then a couple of weeks later on Sunday, October 25, World Pasta Day lands on the calendar! October is a great month for us because we don't just offer one of those honored foods but both - the best pizza and pasta at the Lake of the Ozarks ! When you're ready to celebrate pasta this month (in between slices of pizza, of course) here's what we've got waiting for you at Li'l Rizzo's.  ~ Classic Pasta ~ Spaghetti Spaghetti noodles and our homemade, chunky meat sauce. Spaghetti and Meatball Spaghetti noodles and meat sauce topped with a homemade 6-ounce meatball sprinkled with parmesan cheese and parsley. Lasagna Our lasagna is homemade with 6 layers of pasta with meat sau...

  Li'l Rizzo's Italian Restaurant not only serves incredible pasta dishes every day but we also offer the best pizza at the Lake of the Ozarks .  The entire month of October is designated as National Pizza Month, giving you an added excuse to eat even more of this incredible food than usual!  The Heart of Any Pizza is... ... THE DOUGH! Fresh, flavorful toppings are very important but if you don't have a good base to put them on, that ruins the entire slice. At both locations of our Lake of the Ozarks Italian restaurants , we make our pizza dough from scratch using only the very best ingredients to create the perfect crust.     We use unbromated, unbleached flour due to health concerns surrounding Potassium bromate. Fine sea salt is also used for its intense, clean flavor and extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) because it creates a smoother texture and more tender dough.  Our Lake Ozark restaurant proudly serves this pizza St. Louis style, thin-crust. The O...

Welcome to October and all of the wonderful things that come along with this month. There's a crispness in the air that still welcomes you to enjoy spending time outside yet has you craving foods that will warm you up from the inside out.  Our Lake of the Ozarks Italian restaurant has quite a few items on the menu that hit the spot just right on a chilly fall day. Here's a quick peek at a few of the things we're craving at Li'l Rizzo's Italian Restaurant  this month. (We bet they'll sound great to you too!)     Minestrone Soup One of the most satisfying meals on a chilly day is a nice hot bowl of soup. When that soup happens to be our incredible made-from-scratch Minestrone, well, it's even more of a treat! We start with a delicious tomato base and add lots of fresh vegetables including cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli asparagus, peas, and carrots.  We also offer a Soup of the Day daily if you're in the mood for something else. Both soup options always pa...