Variety is the superpower of Ruckus restaurant
Welcome to Ruckus
You know ruckus was a concept that my wife and
I kind of had in our mind that we really
wanted to build something that was you know kind of
that small little New York style pizza bar that didn't
exist in in 1998 in Raleigh
We always had that dream of out of college kids
you know let's open a restaurant and a bar it's
gonna be great
Took a lot of blood sweat tears but our little
engine grew and grew
You know I remember our our first weeks we were
hoping to make 100 bucks a day
And so as it grew and grew and grew we
always call the ruck this one is the little engine
that could
We went from Ruckus and Mission Valley to our Kry
store and then we built our Morristo store in Park
West and then we built our Apex store which is
owned by Costco and Apex
And then this is the latest iteration which is Ruckus
in Louisville Town Center
The North Raleigh uh evolved as a uh a ruckus
and we wanted to have more of a date night
uh ability as well as family friendly
So it really is a great spot
The family can come you know we have kids' meals
we have pizza the the parents can get uh an
adult meal and some beverages and everyone's happy
It's a great meal out for the parents and Ruckus
is a little loud so if one of the little
ones tunes up it doesn't matter
It's always ruckus in here anyway
I really think we have something for everybody and I
think that surprises a lot of people that they're like
wow I had no idea that you did all of
these things
Variety is our superpower
The roots of Ruckus are actually Ruckus pizza and so
that has been a staple on the menu since the
beginning
So it's a true Italian New York sauce recipe uh
it's a very thin pizza and then with just enough
sauce and just enough cheese and add pepperoni and the
pizza is perfect
We do a really great messy nachos
It has cheese on the bottom nacho chips cheese in
the middle with chili on it and it's uh on
a pizza pan so it's a great portion for a
great messy nacho
One of our most popular items is our spicy chicken
alfredo
It's actually a light Alfredo sauce with our mild wing
sauce and you can sub that out with either a
blackened shrimp or black amahi to make a really great
dish
One of our features is our our steak on a
stone
And with that we have a rib eye or a
filet
We actually sear that to a blue rare and then
we put it onto a 40 degree lava stone with
uh a black sea salt an Asian steak sauce and
a compound butter
We travel a lot and we're being foodies and we'll
go places and we'll try a dish and then we'll
come home and we'll try to recreate it
We were in London and we went to this amazing
steakhouse and we originally had the steak on the stone
there and I said you know how neat would it
be that you could go to a sports bar but
get an amazing steak And my chef was like yep
let's try it
And it has taken off and it's been great and
I still come in and love steak on a stove
Then we have our sushi menu which is a whole
page
We have the idea to put uh our our sushi
together with with our pizza pasta and spirits because it
really is a great appetizer and it's also kind of
a salad replacement so it's something that you can get
that is healthy
And so you really can't go anywhere and watch a
game and get a sushi roll and a beer
So the sushi kind of came on board as an
idea and now it's like people say hey go to
Ruckus they have great sushi you're like no way their
pizza restaurant no they have great sushi
You know I always tell everybody it's like coming home
again you know everybody's family we're a small business but
we want you to feel like family when you come
in
Coming to Ruckus is like visiting a friend who cooks
really well
So you're actually able to come and say you know
I'm not sure what I want tonight
Let's go to Ruckus and we'll figure something out