Bites Nearby: Parma Pizza

is in the Village West shopping center at the intersection of Tilghman Street and Cedar Crest Boulevard. The crossroads location makes a convenient headquarters for all facets of the eatery’s service: eat-in, take-out and delivery.

Pizza is the mainstay of the menu. Seven days a week, Parma offers Neapolitan pizza (round, with thin crust), Sicilian pizza (square, with thick crust), half a dozen different specialty pizzas (including Seven Vegetables), and their characteristic stuffed pizzas, some of which stretch the average definition of pizza.

For those willing to venture beyond sauce, cheese and pepperoni, Parma tempts with bar-b-que chicken pizza, tuna pita pizza, broccoli cheddar chicken pizza, and baked potato pizza, to name a few. All are offered by the slice or whole pie.

Also on the menu are numerous varieties of traditional Italian stromboli and calzones, in personal or family size, plus plenty of pasta, steak sandwiches, hot subs, hoagies, burgers, salads and sides. The seating area is spare, but can accommodate several dozen diners. Dedicated parking spaces near the door speed up the process of running in for take-out.

There are only three days of the year Parma Pizza is closed: Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Village West, 3100 W. Tilghman St., Allentown, PA 18104. 610 439-6940.