Ruckus Pizza Pasta and Spirits

Ruckus Pizza, Pasta and Spirits has a Morrisville location at Park West Village on Market Center Drive. Pizza and pasta carry the menu, there is a full bar, and the room is about as quiet as the name suggests.

The idea the owners keep coming back to is that a meal out should feel like eating at a friend’s house, if that friend happened to be unusually good in the kitchen. Reviewers tend to mention the portions first. Groups do better here than anyone looking for a quiet table.

What to know

• The first Ruckus opened near the NC State campus in 1999.
• Affordable, comfortable and delicious are the words the owners use.
• Music was part of the plan from the beginning, along with the food.
• The group runs other restaurants around the Triangle, including one in Apex.