bland pizza, expensive beer. i really wanted to like lilly's pizza. i have been coming to raleigh on business every few weeks for the past year, and have found the city to have some amazing restaurants. i had heard some good things about lilly's, and since we all had an itch for pizza that night, we decided to give it a try. the atmosphere is as a pizza place should be - casual, relaxing, and a bit funky. the place was crowded, and we could tell there were regulars in the place. there were three of us, and we ordered one medium and one small pizza from the cashier at the counter. we all wanted beer, so we ordered a pitcher. we saw that glasses ofbeerwere $4.50, so we figured that a pitcher would be in the $9 to $12 range. well, we were surprised that the pitcher was $16! we were thirsty and hungry, and the pitcher had been poured, so we paid, got our glasses and sat down. we poured thebeerand found that the pitcher poured exactly 3 glasses of beer! let's do some math. we paid $16 for a pitcher which poured three glasses of beer. if we had gotten 3 individual beers at $4.50 per glass, we would have paid only $13.50 for the same amount of beer! usually, a pitcher is a better deal than individual glasses of beer, but this is not the case at lilly's for some reason one of us went to the counter and pointed this out to the cashier, who simply agreed with our assessment, and smiled at us. this kind of set a bad tone for the rest of the evening. we waited for quite a while for our pizza, and when it came, we were disappointed. although it was piping hot, it was bland, bland, bland! there was hardly any tomato sauce on it, and very little cheese. the crust, although it had good texture, was flavorless. i have to give the whole lilly's experience a thumbs down.