Spaghetti and meatballs has been my favorite meal since before I could actually spell spaghetti.
While my grandma’s spaghetti will always be the best, it’s always my mission to find the best spaghetti and meatballs wherever I live (in Winston-Salem it’s Di Lisio’s).
Your stomach is probably still expanded from Thanksgiving, so you might as well eat some delicious carbs.
There are lots of places in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area to get spaghetti, but in my spaghetti research I tried to stick to cheaper options (if your spaghetti costs more than $12, it probably isn’t worth it).
The cheapest spaghetti and meatballs is the small size from Noodles & Company. It costs $7.19, but I personally think it’s better to size up to a regular and pay $8.59. If you prefer meat sauce to meatballs, Elmo’s Diner has a small serving of spaghetti with meat sauce for $7.95.
My favorite thing about most of these places (Noodles & Company, Carrboro Pizza Oven and Italian Pizzeria III) is that they have a delivery service — if you have the opportunity to eat spaghetti in bed, why wouldn’t you take it? But if you want to walk to these places and have a sit-down meal, Noodles & Company is the closest place for a spaghetti fix at 0.9 miles from the Pit.