The Place Pizza

First of all - this is NOT a pizza joint.  I couldn't even find pizza on the menu (quite strange).  It's a full-scale Italian restaurant, in a very unpretentious setting (read: plastic checked tablecloth, paper napkins, neon sign out front).  That said, the food was quite good... just not what I expected.

My friends and I were looking for a place to get a quick sandwich or takeout near Gore.  The Place Pizza (listed as an "Italian diner") sounded and looked like the perfect place - figured we could get quick pizza, sandwiches, pasta, etc. without a full sit-down restaurant.  Nope.  It's a full service restaurant, with pasta, seafood, steak, full entrees and apps... but no pizza.  Oh well.  We sat down and recalibrated our expectations, then enjoyed the meal.

I had the mussels appetizer for $8 and it was HUGE!  Probably 25 mussels.  And very good.  I ordered it hot and it was in fact quite spicy with lots of red pepper - perfect. However my friend's shrimp cocktail (which she ordered as part of her meal along with plain linguini) was disappointingly small - 4 tiny shrimp.  Entrees ranged from $15-25 on the menu though no one ordered anything exciting to be able to comment.

Service was friendly and speedy, and we were the only table on a Friday evening in January, other than some folks at the bar.

Overall a good dinner, just not what we were expecting.  At all.  Rename your restaurant and update your sign!

One of the best restaurants in the Adirondacks...its worth the drive up to the restaurant from Bolton or Lake George