Millsboro Pizza Palace stays true to roots

The Millsboro Pizza Palace is taking services up a notch.

With a tried-and-true menu ranging from pizza and gyros to wings, subs and homemade desserts, Vas Diakos, one of the Millsboro owners, said the restaurant has expanded and evolved, yet it retains a commitment to the quality, recipes and clientele that have built the business.

“The people in this area have been supporting the business for 20 years,” Diakos said. “We continue our quality and add our experience to what we have here.”

One of the partners who have owned the Millsboro business for nearly five years, Diakos said his location is unaffiliated with other Pizza Palace restaurants in the area, and the quality of the Millsboro restaurant's food, service and atmosphere stands alone among the growing number of locations across the county.

“We guarantee fresh, homemade pizza. We make the dough daily, shred the cheese daily, and we’re not holding back on our pizzas,” he said. “We load our toppings.”

In addition to pizzas, the Millsboro Pizza Palace has a wide menu that features more than 100 nonpizza items including a variety of appetizers, kids meals, soups, salads, wings, entrees, pasta specials and locals favorites such as chicken and dumplings and meatloaf on special nights.

While the option always remains to stop in for some table service in any of three dining rooms, including one that is available for private parties, everything on the menu each day is available for take-out as well, including a bevy of homemade desserts, which will soon be expanding, Diakos said.

“Our plans are to add some specialty coffees, WiFi services and update and add to our desserts,” he said. “We’ve enlarged the place so we can accept parties from 10 to 55.”

Whatever changes Diakos and his partners have made since they took over the Pizza Palace, regulars like Millsboro residents David Schroeder and Mary Calder said they are always happy to stop in for a good meal at the Palace, once, twice or sometimes even five times each week.

“It’s the best place around,” Schroeder said. “I used to come here probably five or six times a week, eat in or take out.”

Some of his favorites include seafood lasagna and the chef’s salad, which Calder was enjoying that very afternoon.

Visiting so often over the last eight years since he moved to Millsboro, Schroeder said he’s had the opportunity to not only learn the menu, but to become friends with the staff, who know him by name.

“After a while, you feel like family,” he said. “The people that run it are top notch; they are not just trying to get you in and out.”

As for the namesake, Schroeder said the pizza drew him to the restaurant in the first place.

“The pizza is incredible, probably the best on the coast,” he said. “I don’t think there’s anything we don’t like on the menu.”

The Millsboro Pizza Palace is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday in the Townsquare Plaza on Route 113 South in Millsboro. For more information staff at the Millsboro Pizza Palace can be reached at 302-934-1817; daily specials are available by dialing 302-822-8333.