Pizza in an Ice Cream Parlor?: Check Out Frankie’s by bruce

As our reader’s know, we never post negative stories on our website. If we don’t like something we DON’T say so. IF WE DO LIKE it, we give high praise. So when it was pointed out that MendocinoFun.com may have missed a great pizza joint, worthy of mention along with D’Aurelios and Piaci in Fort Bragg, I realized they were right. When you see people streaming out of Frankie’s Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor on Ukiah, near Lansing, in Mendocino Village with ice cream cones and cups, you can’t help get drawn in. However, inside you find not only ice cream, but a bistro atmosphere where you’ve got many other food choices, small intimate tables, music on the deck many days and inside at night. Having ordered pizza for take out several times from Frankie’s, I can attest that the pizza maker is talented. The dough is made fresh daily and most of the ingredients are organic. Kudos to Ruth Rosenblum and her husband, S.A., who bought Frankie’s a little more than a year ago. Sure, go there for the ice cream, then order a pizza and come back later as they pull it fresh and hot from the oven — one of my favorites.