pdxdude*: Hello adam
pdxdude: I just moved to Portland OR
NYCSlice**: from where?
NYCSlice: awesome city
NYCSlice: good move
pdxdude: brooklyn
pdxdude: any places for a slice?
pdxdude: I tried Ken's
NYCSlice: well, you leave brooklyn for portland, you can't have it all
I saw this story on Yahoo! Food and thought that you might be interested. I read this story on the best pizza in america how can you say best in the US when you have not tasted the best you go to popular cities looks like all on the east coast oh ya you may have tried Calf. Well guess what there are 50 states so you should try them all before you say the best in the US Your list of states does not ever include all 50 so how can you say the best. Well open your eyes and look at a map and wow you will discover there is a state called Oregon ........ In Oregon there is the best pizza I have ever had and its at the Flying Pie on SE Stark st. in Portland, Or its not a large place but its the best..... its been there for years and I have taken many of people there that say they have to best in there town then they taste Flying Pie and cant wait to come back oh ya its not cheep. So don't forget your Visa or Master Card... that is if your really into finding the best you will try the best .....
—Maryann
4741 Hawthorne Boulevard, Portland OR 97215 (at SE 47th Avenue; map); 503-233-1286; apizzascholls.com
Pizza Style: Neapolitan-American
Oven Type: Electric Bakers Pride
Price: Apizza ‘Margo’rita, $20; Bacon Bianca, $22; sausage, $20
In my pizza book, A Slice of Heaven, the last chapter was devoted to the "Keepers of the Flame," people whose dedication and single-minded devotion to making great pizza made them worthy of inclusion in what could have been called the Pizzaiolo Hall of Fame.
I still get excited when I'm in the presence of pizza greatness. So I was psyched to be in Portland, Oregon, eating at Apizza Scholls. Even the pie that owner and pizzaiolo Brian Spangler had reluctantly FedExed to me was pretty delicious. (Even after reheating it at a pizzeria near Serious Eats headquarters.)
When we drove up to Apizza Scholls, the line was snaking down the block, but we got to his place early enough to snag the last table. Brian's warm, friendly, and smart-as-a-whip wife, Kim Nyland, greeted us and escorted me into the kitchen.
Spangler and his crew were in full pizza-making regalia and mode because the dining room was already full of the people who had been waiting in line for an hour and 15 minutes. I wasn't ready for what happened next.
Brian pulled out a gun.
In which Slice wades waist-deep into the plaintive muck of Craigslist's Missed Connections in search of pizza-related longing. So come with me, my love, to the swamp of love that spawns this That's Amore. —The Mgmt.
The way you came around the corner with that pizza balanced so perfectly on your right hand while you didn't simply walk, but traveled with speed, grace, and style was a breathtaking sight. Simultaneously, a sway and strut pushed and pulled on eachother to create liquid strides of ease and determination.
I had spent all day in Manhattan, witness to more beauty, style, and sensuality than can be expected from any average day on the island, and yet 100 yards from my front door was the most beautifully stylized display of sensuality I had felt all day.
I would feel guilty about my blatant glare, but your facial features did not contort to the often ugly shapes that convey fear, disgust, or complaceny. Instead, your eyes glowed. Your lips curled slighty up. Your nostrils flared the slightest bit.
For me, that may be the only moment you play a part in. Without doubt that pizza was shared with the person that had made you feel so light on your feet that you could glide so effortlessly along the Brooklyn sidewalk. That quick moment still had power and dripped with humanity and will stick with me.
I looked up and said it was fine and looked down. It took me a while to realize how beautiful you were. you went into driggs pizza i was going to follow you but i was kinda high. i can't believe i am posting this. this is fun. hope life is swell.
I just wrote a "feature" piece for Serious Eats on Apizza Scholls in Portland, Oregon. It'll live on Serious Eats for a couple of weeks before landing here, so if you'd like to read it right away, head on over and check it out. I can, however, offer you this (poor-quality self-produced) video:
Neat little Google Maps mashup highlighting the pizzerias of a truly great city, Portland, Oregon. Takes awhile to load, but bear with it.
Portland Pizza Joints [portlandbridges.com]
Be careful what you read in the paper. A few years back, longtime fans of Old Town Pizza, Stephanie and Adam Milne, saw a notice that the then nearly 30-year-old institution was for sale. Though neither was working in the restaurant business at the time, the two were so concerned that the venerable place might change, they bought it.Change it hasn't. Even if you haven't been in for a couple of decades, you'll find the multilevel space exceedingly familiar. Customers still order pizza from a window overlooking the ovens and receive a playing card in exchange, and the space still has more nooks, crannies and mysterious alcoves than Hogwarts. There's even the resident ghost Nina, a lady of the night who, according to the legend, was killed on the property after trying to clean up the neighborhood.
I was more a fan of Pizzicato Pizza when I lived in Portland, Oregon, but I visited Old Town Pizza on numerous occasions—it was just across the Burnside Bridge from my inner-southeast apartment. It's good to see the place has been purchased by a couple who plan to keep it as-is. Word is there's an entrance to the notorious shanghai tunnels in the basement.
PortlandTribune.com Restaurant of the Week: Old Town Pizza Some things never change, thank goodness [Portland Tribune]
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