To successfully make pizza, one must toss the proper ingredients into a concrete mixer, wait for the mixture to harden, and then drop in a few sticks of dynamite to blast slices from the drum walls. Today’s deal leaves delicate pie creation to the professionals: for $9, you get $20 worth of Italian eats and drinks at Cala's Pizzeria, located in Willowick.

Cala's Pizzeria features a menu stacked with cheesy, fried, and saucy savories. Tantalize tongue buds with starters such as breaded mozzarella cheese sticks ($4.99) or Cala's signature jumbo wings, extra-large hunks of meat stuck to the bone, deep fried to crispy resistance, and generously slathered, like a store-bought baby, in one of ten flavor-packed sauces ($9.99 for 15). Multiple varieties of pizza baked to order are known to emerge from ovens ($9.99 and up for large 12-inch), and specialty pizzas such as the bacon-double-cheeseburger and Italian-meatball pizzas will appease variety-seeking diners ($10.99/small, $14.99/large, $17.99/family). Cala's french-bread pizzas fuse the flavors of two highly haughty cuisines into a cheesy sandwich ($5.99 and up).

Pasta reaches the summit of meatiness when mushroom sauce, meat sauce, Cala's homemade meatballs, and Italian sausage links team up to fight iron deficiency atop a peak of slurpable spaghetti strands ($9.99). Subs, sandwiches, and salads are also available.

This deal is valid for carryout or dine-in.

Reviews

Three TripAdvisors give Cala's Pizza an average of 3.5 owl eyes, and CityVoters and three Insider Pagers give it a five-star average:

• Consistently good pizza. – adman8488, TripAdvisor
• They always have great deals on their pizza, and they have a very large menu. – Jimmy L., CityVoter
• I love that the tables have little working mini-jukeboxes, too. – Anita S., Insider Pages