Rosalia Pizza TODOTC.com To Do in the Twin Cities Restaurants Rosalia Pizza Date: March 28, 2025 2811 W 43rd St Minneapolis, MN 55410 Phone: (612) 345-5494 www.rosaliapizza.com

E gets to pick which restaurants we go to. That said I may make suggestions. And my suggestions normally are based on a sign or a drive-by. That is exactly how Rosalia Pizza got on our RADAR I walked past it between parking our SUV and meeting E for my birthday at Martina. They had a nice patio with candles and people, sounds like a good basis for a restaurant. E is actually concerned about kinds of food, ratings and all those other things.

So, E booked it. Well, that is not TOTALLY true. E could not find a link to book it on the Rosalie website. I went to it today and saw a Make a Reservation link and it worked. I am a little bit web savvy to know different computers using different applications will make a company website vary drastically. So, there are a few things that are true: E who books restaurants weekly could not find it, I could find it today, E asked about it, and maybe it was fixed. I am not here to blame anyone, we sat, and people watched for ten minutes and then were promptly seated.

One side note upon walking into Rosalina you walk past the back door of Le Burger, we walked out of a few weeks ago. People were standing outside at 7 PM on a Friday night waiting for a table at a burger joint. Which means what we experienced at Le Burger is regular.

If you remember after walking out of Le Burger, we walked into Martina with no reservations and were promptly seated. Rosalina in the same building as Martina has a similar aura. They are in place to give us a great dining experience. I wish three quarters of the restaurants in the twin cities would follow their lead.

Rosalina is a big place. Well at least they serve a lot of people. Tables are 2-3 feet apart just enough to get through between them. Acoustics to us a vital part of the meal. If I need to lean forward to talk to E or I can tell you the entire conversation of the table at each side, I don’t wanna be there. Might as well go to a sports bar or brewery. It’s amazing the engineering that goes into making a place acoustically pleasant, both Martina and Rosalina have that.

The service was impeccable. We were seated as our water was being poured, given menus and were checked on within two minutes after. The menu is a two-sided one sheet menu. Food on one side drinks on the other. Again something 90% of the restaurants need to learn from. We went to a great Mexican restaurant in Roseville in the last six months that had a TWENTY PAGE menu. Now there was lots of pictures, but twenty pages?
We ordered: Wine, a Ceasar salad and a 50/50 sausage/Pepperoni Pizza. The bill was $61. Now it should have been $80 except don’t expect E to wait for a table without a glass of wine. Life is too short not to enjoy wine.
Our favorite Pizza place is Elements Pizza in the Nordeast. For a few reasons: being in the Nordeast they are close, next to the big McDonalds on Broadway. Elements is a small family-owned business with always nice people. It is wood fired pizza. They always have parking a stones throw away, not three blocks away like Rosalina. You never need a reservation, and it is very reasonably priced. That said Rosalina has much tastier pizza. So, we have two number ones.
Rosalina has four red wines: a Noir, Sangiovese, a Cab Sav and a Malbec priced from $13 to $16 a glass. A small but adequate selection. E had her usual Cab Sav, and I chose the Mendoza Argentina Malbec which I had the other night at Martina the connected Argentinian restaurant. Both wines were good pours and were good.
The $18 Ceasars salad we had looked like the Devils Tower scene in Close Encounters, it was huge. And we shared it and ate it all. Then came our pizza. It was $17 add $4 for Sausage and $3 for pepperoni it was a $24 pizza you might get from Uber eats only MUCH better.
I have never claimed to be a Cordon Blu Chef or even be qualified to rate food. That said this pizza was one of the best I have had in my life and even E agreed. I even thought it was better than the Wisconsin Tombstone Frozen Pizza from Medford and THAT is saying a lot, for a Cheesehead.
The bill was $56 plus tax. Not bad for one of the best pizza experiences we have had in years! Will we be back? You damn right we will be. Especially for the summer deck! We love the area, other than the parking sucks. It’s safe, nice people, easy to get to, if you have a GPS and close to the freeways. OK not a LOT of freeways by Lake Harriet, Linden Hills and Edina but still.

Two thumbs up for Rosalina Pizza. Thank the cast and crew for a great evening

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