La Trattoria

La Trattoria brought a New York-style Italian pizzeria and trattoria menu to Cloverdale Road in Montgomery, combining wood-style specialty pizzas with a full Italian dinner menu of pasta and classic entrees. The restaurant operates as an independent pizzeria, restaurant, and catering business rather than a franchise location, and its menu structure, built around Di Lusso specialty pizzas alongside standard Italian entrees, sets it apart from Montgomery’s more traditional Italian dining rooms.

Pizza is the centerpiece of the menu, with a Di Lusso section featuring a Black Truffle Oil Burrata pie and a Spinach & Artichoke pizza priced at $28.95 each, alongside medium and large specialty pizzas like Margherita, Buffalo Chicken, and a Meat Lovers pie running in the mid-to-high $20s depending on size. The pizza program leans toward gourmet toppings rather than a basic pepperoni-and-cheese approach, reflecting the restaurant’s New York-inspired identity.

Beyond pizza, the entree menu runs through classic Italian-American dishes, including Chicken Parmigiana and Chicken Marsala at $21.95, a Lasagna at the same price, an Eggplant Parmigiana at $20.95, and a Baked Ziti at $17.95. Appetizers like truffle oil and burrata, mozzarella caprese, fried calamari, and chicken wings round out the starter menu, and a run of salads, from a simple house salad to an antipasto salad, gives the menu a lighter option alongside the pasta and pizza.

Dessert options include a New York cheesecake, an Italian lemon cake, and a Colossal Chocolate Cake, and the restaurant serves espresso and cappuccino alongside its wine list, a nod to the New York coffeehouse-meets-trattoria identity the restaurant leans into. Wine is offered by the glass or bottle, with red selections running $42 to $70 and white selections $38 to $60, plus a Prosecco option at $35.

La Trattoria is closed on Mondays and opens at 5 p.m. on the days it serves, keeping its focus on dinner and evening service. Orders can be placed directly through the restaurant’s own online ordering system for pickup, a detail that matters for a pizza-forward menu built for both dine-in guests and takeout orders.

For gourmet, New York-inspired pizza paired with a full Italian dinner menu, La Trattoria remains one of the more distinctive Italian kitchens on Cloverdale Road in Montgomery.

The restaurant’s Cloverdale Road location puts it in one of Montgomery’s older, more walkable residential neighborhoods, a setting that suits a trattoria built around casual dinners and family-style pizza orders rather than a formal, white tablecloth dining room. That neighborhood feel, paired with a genuinely ambitious pizza menu, has helped La Trattoria build a following among diners who want restaurant-quality pizza without driving out to a strip mall chain location.

Because the kitchen handles both dine-in service and a steady stream of takeout and delivery orders, the restaurant has had to balance a full sit-down menu against the demands of a busy pizza operation, a challenge it has managed by leaning on its own online ordering system rather than third-party delivery apps. That direct relationship with customers has helped La Trattoria keep its New York-inspired identity intact even as it serves a broad mix of dine-in and takeout guests.

The catering side of the business also extends the restaurant’s reach beyond its dining room, letting La Trattoria supply pizza and Italian entrees for events across Montgomery rather than limiting the kitchen to walk-in traffic alone. That combination of dine-in trattoria, takeout pizzeria, and event caterer under one roof has made La Trattoria one of the more flexible independent Italian kitchens operating in the city today, able to serve everything from a quiet weeknight dinner to a large private gathering without losing sight of what made the pizza program popular in the first place.