Pa's Pizza & Hot Subs

West End/Seven Lakes doesn't really have too many restaurants to speak of.  I've passed this one a couple of times, and honestly thought it was closed until I read the reviews here, I also sort of thought it was joke too...Japanese AND Pizza..what?

So the pizza is better than this other pizza place near Food Lion...that place was horrible.  The pizza here isn't spectacular...but it will do in a pinch.  They use real mushrooms instead of canned which is always a plus in my book.

The menus is weird, I did post pictures.  While they advertise Japanese....the menu has Thai this and Thai that....I ordered the Thai fried rice...nothing really Thai about it...it was really just mushy fried rice...but lo and behold, whatever delicious magical sauce they included with it saved the day.

So I guess this will be my go to place on those days when my hour long commute home is just too much and I want to grab a pie or some mushy rice with heroin sauce.

Bonus...the guy in the gas station convenience store next door is super nice..and seemed to know everyone that came in.

The one and only: Pa's Pizza & Hot Subs & Japanese & Gas & Snacks & On & On & On. Located in West End, which if you know what or where West End is, then that's about all you need to know. It's out in the middle of basically nowhere. The little town is gone. The furniture factory is gone. The local economy is gone. But Pa's Pizza & Hot Subs remains. And they gots Japanese steak and seafood too. It's true. The sign is not outdated. It's not incorrect. It's totally and reliably accurate. Go behind the gas station, and there's a little sliver of a restaurant where some Asian people (who may or may not be Japanese) serve up home-style pizzas and subs and Japanese. Nothing is great. Nothing is terrible. Go there. Give it a try. Give 'em some business. Hey, if nothing else, they provide a little bit of variety where there is none.

This place is amazing.  The name is a little bit of a misnomer; they have Japaneses food too.  It's great food for a great price.  Don't judge a book (or a restaurant) by its cover.   Yes, Pa's is behind a gas station, but it doesn't taste like it.  The greatest part is the variety of food.  Where else can you get a hot sub and Japanese food at the same time??  The place is family run.

They're not open on Sundays, which I've found out the hard way several times.