Mequon Pizza: Wood-Fired Neapolitan to Weeknight Slices

For pizza in Mequon, Zarletti fires genuine Neapolitan pies in a wood oven imported from Italy, and Nona covers the casual, family end. Between the two you have both halves of what most people mean by pizza: a proper wood-fired pie for a night out, and an easy weeknight one for the kids.

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The short version is a two-way split. Zarletti is the wood-fired Neapolitan option and the one to pick when pizza is dinner out; Nona is the casual, family-friendly pie for a low-key night. The Public Market adds a third, quicker option if you are already there.

Wood-fired and Italian: Zarletti

Zarletti Mequon is the town's Italian anchor, with Neapolitan pizza from an imported wood-burning oven plus housemade pastas. If you take pizza seriously, this is where the effort is in Mequon.

The oven is the whole point. A genuine wood-burning oven imported from Italy gets the char and the chew that define a real Neapolitan pie, and Zarletti runs it properly rather than as a gimmick. It comes from a Milwaukee restaurant family with a downtown pedigree, so the wine list and the pasta hold up their end too. Book ahead on weekends, because this is a dinner-out room, not a quick slice, and it fills.

What to expect if you have not had Neapolitan before: these are personal-size pies with a thin, blistered crust and a short list of quality toppings, meant to be eaten fresh from the oven rather than shared like a family pizza. That makes Zarletti a different proposition from an American-style pizzeria. You are ordering a pie each, not a large to split, and the kitchen leans on the dough and a few good ingredients rather than piling everything on. If you want the pizza and a pasta course and a bottle, this is the room that does all three well in one sitting.

Casual and family pizza

For an ordinary weeknight pie, Nona and the Public Market's pizza vendor keep it casual and quick. This is the everyday tier, the pizza you order without thinking hard about it.

Nona is the sit-down casual option, simple and family-friendly. If you are already at the Mequon Public Market for something else, the hall has a pizza vendor in the rotation too, which is the fastest way to get a pie into a hungry group without a separate stop. Between the casual sit-down and the food-hall slice, the weeknight end is well covered.

It is worth being straight about the size of Mequon's pizza scene. This is a suburb, not a pizza town, so the honest answer is a small number of good options rather than a long ranked list. That is not a knock. Zarletti covers the ambitious end as well as anywhere in the area, and the casual options cover the weeknight. You are not short of a good pie here; you just are not spoiled for a dozen of them, and a guide that pretended otherwise would be padding.

One honest note for anyone searching: the name Mequon Pizza Company points to a specific local pizzeria rather than a roundup, so if that is what you are after, look for the business directly. For the wider question of where to eat in town beyond pizza, from the special-occasion rooms to the casual standbys, that is the full Mequon restaurant lineup.