Parrish Pizzeria has a pickle pizza. I have a few questions—and an order in mind.

Dinner does not always need a destination

Sometimes the best dinner plan is the one that ends the group text. Pizza can do that—unless somebody discovers the pickle pizza and starts a second debate.

Parrish Pizzeria, at 12345 US Highway 301 North, gives that particular conversation a home. The locally owned restaurant offers dine-in, takeout and delivery, so the same idea can become a meal out or a box on your own kitchen counter.

I like a local dinner that does not require turning the whole evening into an expedition. This one also has enough choices to get beyond the automatic “pepperoni again?” without asking everybody to agree on something adventurous.[1]

The pie I’d try—and the peace offering

The pickle pizza uses garlic Alfredo sauce, mozzarella and pickles. A medium is listed at $15. It is the sort of order I’d make with someone who enjoys a food argument, preferably one willing to commit to more than a single experimental bite.

My less divisive pick would be the Popeye: olive oil, mozzarella, ricotta and spinach. The menu lists the large at $16. I’d pair it with the five garlic knots and marinara, listed at $5.95, and let dinner stay comfortably uncomplicated.

For a table that wants to build its own, cheese pizzas start at $9 for a 10-inch and reach $19 for an 18-inch, before toppings. Those are posted menu prices, not a special offer. There is room here for the traditionalists and the pickle delegation to coexist.[2]

A small date night counts

I’d choose dine-in if the point is to leave the house for a while. I’d choose takeout if the point is to give the cook the night off. Both are valid. A date does not become less of a date because nobody spent the afternoon researching parking.

The restaurant describes itself as family and community oriented, with hand-tossed pizzas, calzones and wings. Its website also advertises a two-slice lunch with a to-go drink, with cheese or pepperoni as the slice choices. That is a different sort of visit: a quick lunch rather than negotiating an entire pie.

For me, supporting an independent place starts with making it part of ordinary life. It does not have to be a birthday dinner or the place you save for out-of-town guests. An easy weeknight order is part of how a neighborhood restaurant becomes a regular gathering place.[1]

When to go

Published hours are Tuesday 4–8 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday 11:30 a.m.–8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m.–9 p.m.; and Sunday 1–8 p.m. Monday is closed.

The current menu and ordering link are on the restaurant’s parrishpizza.com website. I’d begin there, pick one familiar pie and one that gives the table something to talk about, and call that a perfectly good dinner plan.[1]