Portland, Oregon: Pizza Kingdom Come

The pizza scene in Portland has been fairly stationary since the much-hyped New Year's Eve opening of East Burnside's Sizzle Pie. As we approach Sizzle's one year anniversary, a second location is preparing to open in Southwest Portland, and the overall pizza landscape in Portland has encountered a rapid growth spurt. Here's what's on the horizon...

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3 Comments | Posted by Jim Bonomo, November 30, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Tagged: Fire on the Mountain 3, Lonesome's Pizza, openings, Oregon, Oven and Shaker, Pizza Contadino, pizza roundups, Portland OR, Sizzle Pie West, Via Chicago, Via Tribunali

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....

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5 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, November 12, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Tagged: Belltown, Neapolitan-style, Pizza Madness 2009, Seattle, Via Tribunali, VPN pizzerias, Washington, wood-oven