Frank’s Pizza and Restaurant

Frank’s Pizza and Restaurant sits on New Bern Avenue in Southeast Raleigh, where it has been a family-style fixture for more than 40 years. The restaurant calls itself one of the area’s best-known secrets, which is about right for a place regulars guard.

Pizza is the reason most people come. The crust and the sauce are made in house, and the pizza maker trained under good chefs. He worked in a number of the city’s better restaurants before this one, and that background shows up in the pies.

What to know

• Specialty pizzas are built on the homemade crust and sauce.
• Customers rave about them, by the restaurant’s own telling.
• Italian specialties fill out the rest of the menu.
• Orders can be placed online as well as in person.
• There is a newsletter for anyone who wants updates from the kitchen.