Willows Pizza - South Portland

Willows is a locally owned family restaurant that specializes in Italian food and pizza. We eat there a few times a year and also get takeout. They have entertainment a few nights a week in the dining room. You need to make reservations on those nights. That was the case last night when we decided to go there for dinner. We were seated in the bar, which has a few booths and a number of high top tables, in addition to bar seating. We were seated at a high top. The chairs had a bar to rest your feet, so it wasn't uncomfortable. We started with drinks. My husband just got a soda. I cannot drink right now, but I asked if they could make their drink special coconut margarita alcohol free. The bartender did and it was delicious. My husband ordered the cup of chowder with half an eggplant sandwich. He thought the chowder had a slight vinegar taste to it; I had a small taste and didn't taste anything like that. He said his sandwich was delicious. I ordered the lasagna. It was excellent. Just the right amount of spice and a fair amount of meat and sausage in the sauce. It came with a small loaf of bread. Needless to say, I have today's lunch! Good value at $12.99, if memory serves. And what is dinner out without dessert? The hubby got the turtle cheesecake; I ordered the lemon cream cake. Both were very good and very reasonably priced at $4.99 each. I took pictures of my food, but not his. Don't ask me why. Also. I'm writing this on my phone. So I apologize if I missed some typos.

Not enough places anymore. Has a mother and pop pizza place feel though it is like three different concepts all connected. Good for big groups or if you want to go to beer and pub scarf while watching the game. Television is everywhere. Good cake and the food was delicious. Cold beer, what do you want?

My pizza was alright but nothing extraordinary, the salad was kinda small. The place is clean, prompt service, professional staff.

Good food was the hardest part that even on Thursday 6:30 they were full of top and there were unknown queues for the tables only open a place of 2 places while we were there for 2 hours. We were able to make a deal with some regular at the bar to move groups to make a seat but overall hard to enjoy if you are not lucky in the seatlotto. Will definitely return and have no negatives overall only happy that they are busy even if it makes more difficult to enjoy.

Great food, we enjoyed the pizza aqnd Lasagna. The staff was busy but attentive and very accommodating. Had a wonderful night listening to the music of Two Random Guys plus one. Will definitely be back!