Mick & Angelo’s Kitchen + Bar

Mick & Angelo's Kitchen + Bar asks a table to decide what kind of night it is having, then refuses to make them choose. The same floor that pours drinks against a wall of game-day screens also runs a from-scratch Italian line, and the menu treats the two as one continuous thing rather than a bar list bolted onto a dinner menu. A plate of wings and a build-your-own pizza can share a table with Chicken Parmigiano and a bowl of penne Alfredo, and nobody at the table has to win the argument about where to eat. It sits on Lundy's Lane in Niagara Falls, on a stretch where competing kitchens run end to end and a table can walk past a dozen doors before picking one.

The clearest first order is wings and pizza. Chicken Wings come Buffalo-style or breaded in ten, twenty, or fifty pieces, and The Original Pizza — cheese on Mick's homemade sauce, sized from individual up to a party tray — is the easy on-ramp into a longer specialty list. From there the pizzas get specific: the Calabrese with spicy Italian sausage, roasted red peppers, and sauteed spinach; the Caribbean Queen with jerk chicken, pineapple, and chipotle aioli; a white Pizza Bianco with Asiago, feta, and artichokes. The Italian side carries its own weight, with Lasagna layered under ricotta and Parmesan, Mozzarella Stuffed Ravioli fried and dropped into tomato sauce, and a Chicken Tetrazzini that sautees the breast with mushrooms and garlic over linguine. Burgers, calzones, poutine, and a ten-ounce Steak Frites fill in the rest.