Looking for a dinner that’s cheap, really cheap

• You can eat well at V’s for less than $11, if you’re willing to eat early.

I have eaten more pizza in the past two weeks than I’ve eaten in the past two years. This week, The Pitch pays homage to the Neapolitan dish (the American version turns 100 years old in two years) with a metrowide guide to the savory pie.

While roaming around and tasting pizza in Independence, I stumbled on a dinner deal that I had forgotten or, more likely, never knew about: Ten dinner specials for $10.95, offered every day at the venerable V’s Italiano Ristorante (a place that serves very good pizza, by the way).

The rub is that you have to eat your dinner between 4 and 6 p.m. That’s the time most of us are just getting home from work, walking the dogs, listening to All Things Considered or turning on the TV set to watch Nancy Grace give the latest gory details from the Jodi Arias trial.