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 $18 worth of Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizzas and more at Masullo Pizza, located on Riverside Boulevard in Land Park.

Masullo's Neapolitan-style pizzas are prepped with thin crusts, fresh local produce, and specialty meats and cheeses, before being shoved into a more-than-800-degree oven and cooked by the sweet, sweet flames of an apple- and almond-wood inferno. Start off with an order of antipasto (cheeses, cured meats, and vegetables, $12) before dousing a tongue in the classic taste of a pizza margherita (basil, mozzarella, and tomato sauce, $10) or the savory flavor of a Kathryn (fontina, Niman Ranch ham, red Fresno chili peppers, and crimini mushrooms, $13). Fulfill one eighth of the FDA's recommended number of daily meat servings with a three-meats (mozzarella, ricotta, and Fra' Mani Toscano salami, sausage, and mortadella, $15), or avoid America's squishiest export with a Jacqueline—a tomato-free pizza with potato, fontina, bacon, and oregano ($14).

This Groupon is valid for dine-in only. You must purchase a food item. Reservations are not available.

Reviews

The SacFoodies and Sacatomato blogs give Masullo Pizza positive recommendations. Six TripAdvisors give it a 3.5-star average rating, Yelpers give it a four-star average rating, and 90% of Urbanspooners like it.

• Fantastic food, fantastic service. Having the owner check in with each table to ensure everyones happy was added touch that takes this restaurant over the top....a must try... – Susan Harris, Urbanspoon
• Masullo in Land Park is definitely a hidden gem of the Sacramento restaurant scene. – Liz Conant, SacFoodies