These aren’t standard pizza-shop cutlets slapped on a sub roll and drowned in sauce. These are refined. Thick, but not too thick. Heavily breaded, but not greasy. The crust has real flavor — seasoned, structured, crispy.
The standout is the Drunken Cutlets.
Two beautifully fried cutlets topped with their house vodka sauce, fresh burrata, basil, olive oil, and cracked black pepper.
Let’s talk about that vodka sauce.
It’s hard to explain without getting emotional about it.
It’s thick — almost spoon-coating — with a slight tomato-forward acidity that keeps it from feeling heavy. But underneath that is something deeply savory and comforting. It tastes like a Sunday afternoon sauce. Not the loud, chaotic family dinner kind. The quiet, cozy one. Snow falling outside. Heat on inside. Someone stirring a pot in the kitchen. It’s warm. Familiar. Comforting in a way that hits something deeper than just flavor.
It’s the kind of sauce that feels like home.
I was eight dishes deep into filming the day I tried this. Eight. And I still would’ve eaten the entire thing. The only thing stopping me was the long drive home and the internal debate about whether I needed that level of food guilt sitting in my passenger seat.
They’re also making a vodka cutlet sandwich on house-made bread topped with toasted sesame seeds. The bread has structure, a nice toast, great chew. It’s excellent.
But I’ll be honest — I preferred the drunken cutlets plated as-is. The burrata melting into that sauce, the olive oil pooling slightly, the cracked pepper cutting through the richness — that’s the move.
Pizza Nota already makes exceptional pizza.
Now you know they’re doing exceptional cutlets too.
Highly recommend you get out there and try them.
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