What's for Dinner #123 - the Start of the End of the Year Edition - November 2025

[paryzer (Eli Paryzer)]

Italiana by Zod, Montclair, NJ

We finally made it out to Italiana by Zod. It took us a month to get a reservation. We missed Chef Zod’s cooking since Blue. The food was fantastic, but we missed Chef Zod’s high end dishes. This is more of a high end pizza and pasta place, but a waste of great talent. The service was amateur but friendly, so we will probably do takeout in the future. We enjoyed an excellent spicy sausage pizza with fresh mozzarella, onion, and hot chili peppers; a fantastic gigli pasta with mushrooms, pecorino…