Fazoli’s Baked Italian Meatballs: Price, Calories 2026
Fazoli’s Baked Italian Meatballs: Price, Calories, Nutrition, and Allergens (2026)
Fazoli’s Baked Italian Meatballs are the menu’s no-pasta meatball order: five Italian meatballs under marinara and melted cheese, with two garlic breadsticks on the side. The order costs $5.99 at most locations and contains 600 calories.
Fazoli’s files the dish with its Fan Favorites, and it works as a starter to share or a protein-heavy side next to a pasta entrée. Here is the full breakdown: what is in it, what it costs, the complete nutrition, the allergen flags, and how it compares with Fazoli’s other meatball dishes.
Fazoli’s Baked Italian Meatballs Calories and Nutrition Facts
One order of five meatballs with the two breadsticks carries 600 calories on Fazoli’s official nutrition data. The full breakdown is below.
| Nutrition | Fazoli’s Baked Italian Meatballs (5 pc) |
| Calories | 600 Cal |
| Total Fat | 43g |
| Carbohydrates | 20g |
| Protein | 30g |
| Sodium | 2,070mg |
The protein is the headline: 30g is more protein than the full Spaghetti with Meatballs entrée provides (25g), in a smaller order. The 20g of carbohydrate is low for Fazoli’s because there is no pasta under the meatballs, which makes this one of the easier orders to fit into a lower-carb day.
The trade-off is sodium and fat. At 2,070mg, one order covers about 90% of the 2,300mg daily sodium value, and most of the 600 calories come from the meat and cheese. Per meatball, the math is about 120 calories each. For the full menu side by side, see the full Fazoli’s nutrition guide.
What Are Fazoli’s Baked Italian Meatballs?
The order is five Italian meatballs topped with marinara sauce, then baked with mozzarella and provolone cheeses until the cheese melts over the top. It is a baked dish, not a fried one, and the sauce and cheese are part of the standard build, not add-ons.
The meatballs themselves are a beef and pork blend, which answers the two questions searchers ask most about this dish: what the meatballs are made of, and whether they are beef or pork. They are both. Two Signature Garlic Breadsticks come with every order at no extra charge.
How Much Do Fazoli’s Baked Italian Meatballs Cost?
The typical price is $5.99, which works out to about $1.20 per meatball before the breadsticks are counted. That is the price on the standard menu, and it is the figure most locations follow.
Prices do vary by location, and delivery apps run higher: one Ohio store lists the same order at $7.49 on Uber Eats. If the price matters, the in-store and drive-thru price is the one to plan around, and the Fazoli’s menu shows the current price for your store before you order.
Why Some Sites Show 490 Calories for Fazoli’s Baked Italian Meatballs
Search this dish, and some calorie trackers will tell you 490 calories. Eat This Much and MyNetDiary both list figures in that range, and they sit near the top of the results, so the wrong number is the one most people see.
Fazoli’s own current data says 600, and it says it twice: the official menu lists the dish at 600 cal, and the official nutrition explorer lists the same 600 with the full macro breakdown used in the table above. The 490 figures are older third-party data that was never updated. Plan around 600.
Fazoli’s Baked Italian Meatballs Allergens: Are They Gluten-Free?
No. Fazoli’s official allergen tool rates Baked Italian Meatballs red for gluten, so this is not a gluten-free order, and it does not appear on the Fazoli’s gluten-free menu. Anyone avoiding gluten should skip it.
The same tool flags the dish yellow, its caution rating, for dairy, wheat, egg, and soy. The cheese on top explains the dairy flag, and yellow means the allergen may be present, so check the dish on Fazoli’s allergen menu before ordering if any of those four affect you. No peanut, tree nut, fish, shellfish, or sesame flag appears for this dish in the official tool.
Baked Italian Meatballs vs Spaghetti with Meatballs vs Baked Spaghetti with Meatballs
These are three different dishes that share one ingredient, and they sit in three different calorie classes. The standalone order is the only one with no pasta.
| Dish | Calories | Protein | Pasta |
| Baked Italian Meatballs (5 pc) | 600 Cal | 30g | None |
| Spaghetti with Meatballs | 780 Cal | 25g | Spaghetti |
| Baked Spaghetti with Meatballs | 960 Cal | 36g | Spaghetti, baked with cheese |
If you want the meatballs on pasta, the Spaghetti with Meatballs post covers the marinara entrée, and the Baked Spaghetti with Meatballs post covers the baked, cheese-topped version. If you want the meatballs on their own, this standalone order has the lowest calories of the three and more protein than the spaghetti entrée. Fazoli’s also sells plain meatballs as a pasta add-on in small and side sizes, and a family-size meatball portion appears on the Family Meals page; those are toppings, not this baked dish.
How to Order Fazoli’s Baked Italian Meatballs and What to Pair Them With
Order it as the starter for the table or as your side: five meatballs split easily between two people before the entrées arrive. Ordered solo with its two breadsticks, it also works as a light meal on its own.
The natural pairing is a pasta entrée without its own meat, such as Spaghetti with Marinara or Fettuccine Alfredo, where the meatballs add the protein the entrée is missing. A house side salad balances the salt if you are watching sodium across the whole meal.
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Final Thoughts
Baked Italian Meatballs is the Fazoli’s order for people who want the meatballs without the pasta: $5.99, 600 calories, 30g of protein, and two breadsticks included. It is not gluten-free, and it runs high on sodium, but as a starter or a protein side, it earns its Fan Favorites spot. The full Fazoli’s menu shows everything else it can sit next to.
