Mr Gatti’s Pizza

FOOD

Smoked provolone gives Mr Gatti’s pizza a distinctive starting point. The cheese gives the brand a particular ingredient to build around, alongside its seasoned tomato sauce and dough made fresh daily. At buffet restaurants, those basics appear across simple and more heavily topped pizzas. A plain cheese or pepperoni slice gives you a straightforward introduction before the specialty names start competing for attention.

The Sampler brings meats and vegetables together on the same pizza. Representative menus list pepperoni, mild sausage, Canadian bacon and ground beef, with olives, onions, mushrooms and bell peppers among the vegetable toppings. It is a good expression of the broader Mr Gatti’s approach: a familiar pizza base with quite a lot above it. The mixture also explains why someone who prefers just one topping might take a different slice from the same buffet.

Meat Market concentrates on the meat selection, while Veggie Sampler gives the vegetables their own combination. The Gatti’s Deluxe is another mixed-topping option in the brand’s menu. These names help distinguish the choices without implying that every specialty appears on every buffet at once. The broader pizza menu also serves carryout and delivery, so its full list is wider than any particular set of trays.

Spinach Alfredo changes the sauce as well as the toppings, bringing a creamy spinach-and-Alfredo preparation beneath smoked provolone. BBQ Chicken uses a mesquite-flavored barbecue sauce, while Buffalo Chicken introduces a hot-wing-style choice. Those alternatives make the pizza selection more interesting than successive combinations over tomato sauce alone. Ask which specialties the local buffet is serving if one of those sauces is the main reason for your visit.

Pasta is a substantial part of the buffet meal. SpaGatti is the brand’s spaghetti-and-meat-sauce dish; macaroni and cheese offers a milder, cheesier alternative. Original lasagna appears in the broader brand offering as well. The pasta gives someone who wants a hot meal without another pizza slice a proper option, rather than an assortment of small accompaniments. Local buffet menus decide which dishes join the pizza.

The salad bar and bread sticks are worth considering on their own terms. Lettuce, vegetables and dressings give you something cold alongside the baked dishes, with Mr Gatti’s ranch a particular part of the brand’s menu identity. Bread sticks offer a simpler bread preparation than a topped pizza. Cheese sticks, jalapeño cheese sticks and wings also appear on the broader menu, but should be checked separately for buffet inclusion rather than assumed unlimited.

Cinnamon sticks and Dutch Apple Treat are among the desserts explicitly named on participating buffet pages. Both fit a pizza-shop dessert counter nicely, especially if you enjoy a sweet baked finish. Other restaurants can add cinnamon rolls or further sweets from the wider menu. This is a buffet with a recognizable finish, and a useful reminder to look beyond the final savory slice before deciding the meal is over.