One of our favorite restaurants in Little Rock has a name our kids are not supposed to say. Damgoode Pies on Cantrell (in the Heights) is on par with our favorite pizza of all time (Piccolo Mondo in Memphis, which, sadly, is closed now).

My kids busted out laughing when they saw the sign for Damgoode Pies, and we couldn’t get our 8-year-old to stop saying, “This is some Damgoode pizza.” They also cracked up again when the hostess told us to “Have a Damgoode day” as we were leaving.

Despite all of the bad language issues, it really is a family-friendly restaurant. They had high chairs and booster seats available, and all of the tables around us were full of kids. The restaurant is also kind of loud, which we’ve found is a good thing if your kids are loud (ours are).

The crust of the pizza is flaky rather than yeasty– it kind of reminded me of phyllo dough. The sauce is flavorful and herb-heavy (which I love), and the ingredients are unique (the sausage, which was our favorite, was in very small pieces rather than chunky). We ordered a medium-sized supreme pizza, and a large sausage pizza with red onions. The large sausage was a good deal ($10.99), and the supreme was in the more expensive “specialty” category ($14.99 for a medium, $18.99 for a large).

The pizza was good enough for a return trip to their take-out branch on Rodney Parham, even though the prices were a little high for take-out pizza.