Entries tagged with 'VPN pizzerias'
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Seattle: Via Tribunali, Neapolitan-Style Pizza
[Photograph: Adam Kuban] There are five Via Tribunali locations in Seattle, each of them VPN-certified. I don't know what the other four look like (though I get a bit of an idea looking at the VT website), but the one in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, attached to the Crocodile, is dark, moody, and menacing, if only in a sort of pretend-menacing kind of way. In perhaps a nod to Mt. Vesuvius and the fire of the wood oven, there are ink-black and fiery-orange paintings of erupting volcanoes on the wall. The chandeliers hold glowing-red candelabra bulbs, their imitation flames flickering....In Which I Find Margherita Pizzas Boring
A Margherita pie from Tutta Bella in Seattle, adequate but ultimately forgettable. [Photograph: Adam Kuban] In Which I Summarize This Post Run-of-the-mill Margherita pies suck. There are great ones, though. Unfortunately, they are few and far between. I now appreciate the addition of well-thought-out and interesting toppings more than ever. In the Nostrana post I put up on Friday, I said I'd give you my thoughts on VPN pizza. As I wrote that, I had so much more I wanted to say about VPN pizzerias but didn't think stuffing it in the Nostrana entry was appropriate. So I started...DRAFT: On VPN Pizza: Same Same But Different, and Good But Not GREAT
[ DRAFT: NOT READY FOR PUBLICATION ] After trying five West Coast VPN pizzerias in five days, along with the two I have tried in New York City, I've come away with mixed feelings with regard to the genre. On one hand, they all begin to blur together. I found that, with a couple exceptions, there is very little difference in quality or flavor from one VPN pizzeria to the next. In that sense, you could say that the VPN governing body has accomplished its goal. It's now possible to visit VPN pizzerias in New York City, Seattle, San Francisco,...Portland, Oregon: Nostrana
Previously in our West Coast Pizza Madness tour: Apizza Scholls, where our party of eight housed almost four pies. After dinner there had ended, only one brave soul—This Is Pizza's Adam Lindsley—dared join me for a second stop at Nostrana immediately after. (The rest of the folks retired to the Horse Brass for drinks, some vowing to meet us later in the evening for the third and final stop.) Though I'm not a fan, I'm used to the notion of Neapolitan-style joints leaving pies uncut. I've never seen one offer scissors for the job, however. As This Is Pizza's Adam...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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