Cane Rosso: What’s Vegetarian Editorial Review

Cane Rosso is a wood-fired Neapolitan pizza chain around Dallas, and vegetarians eat well here without asking for anything special. Cheese pizzas, a handful of salads, and the shareable starters add up to a full dinner. Pasta and sandwiches run meat-heavy. Skip them.

Nine restaurants carry the brand across the Dallas-Fort Worth area: Deep Ellum, White Rock, Fort Worth, Carrollton, Frisco, Arlington, North Dallas, Lake Highlands, and Sachse. I verified the Lake Highlands restaurant at 7150 Skillman Street, Unit 190, and the menu there matches the brand’s main menu. Treat the details below as brand-wide, and check your own location’s page for hours.

Pizza comes first. Every pie is 14 inches, built Neapolitan style, with a touch of olive oil and a few basil leaves. Start with the Margherita ($17), which keeps it simple with tomato sauce, housemade mozzarella, and good olive oil, and then move on to the white pie. La Flama Blanca ($18) skips the tomato for housemade mozzarella, ricotta, garlic, crushed red pepper, and basil. Want something else? Build your own by starting with a Margherita and adding up to three toppings. The menu doesn’t spell out the topping list, so ask your server which vegetables are on offer.

Lunch is the budget move. From 11am to 3pm Monday through Friday, the Pizza & Salad Combo ($16) pairs a 10-inch Margherita with your choice of a small market salad, a small Caesar, or an order of rosemary parm tots, which makes a filling midday meal for one person. Dine-in happy hour runs 3pm to 6pm Monday through Friday, with Margherita pizzas at $10.

Outside pizza, build a meal from the sides and salads. The Caprese ($15) stacks housemade pulled mozzarella with heirloom tomatoes, arugula, basil, and pesto. The Capra Stack tops bibb, gem, and frisée with goat cheese crumbles and marcona almonds. Fans of simple greens get the House salad, with cherry tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, and parmesan. Among starters, you can order the Wood-Fired Cheesy Garlic Bread ($15), Fried Nuggz (fried mozzarella bites with marinara, $12), Artichokes Classique ($12), or the Cast Iron Spinach Dip ($13). All four are meat-free as written. Skip the Crispy Brussels, which come with bacon, and the Antipasto Power Bowl, which carries soppressata, pepperoni, and ham.

Nothing on the menu carries a vegetarian symbol, so read ingredients. Meat hides in plain sight on a few pizzas. The Delia reads like a vegetable pie but comes with bacon marmalade, and the Truffle Shuffle has prosciutto. Pasta of the Month changes, and the kitchen will tell you its ingredients. The Whole Gem Caesar lists breadcrumbs, black pepper, and parmesan, with no mention of anchovy. Check with your server if that matters to you.

Cane Rosso doesn’t say how its kitchen keeps meat and vegetarian orders apart. Pepperoni and sausage pies come off the same wood-fired pizza line, and nothing promises a dedicated surface. Call ahead if shared equipment bothers you. Vegans have a thin night here, because no vegan cheese appears anywhere, so phone before you go.

Dessert is easy. Choose the S’mores Calzone ($11), Warm Chocolate Chip Cookies ($14), Tiramisu ($13), gelato in chocolate or Tahitian vanilla, or one of the dessert pizzas, The Beast and Ladybird. Kids get a small cheese pizza for $7.

Lake Highlands keeps hours of 11am to 10pm Monday through Saturday and 10am to 9pm on Sunday. Brunch runs Saturday from 11am to 3pm and Sunday from 10am to 3pm. You can order pickup or delivery online, and the brand does catering and private events.

Order the Margherita, a Caprese to share, and the cheesy garlic bread. Close with a dessert pizza for the table.