February 2nd, 2019
Portland, Oregon
For our second night in Portland, we stopped for dinner at Lovely’s Fifty Fifty, which was another pizza place that made the 2016 list. We were supposed to come here with our friends, but they ended up deciding that they didn’t feel like pizza again (we made them get Apizza Scholls the night before). This ended out working beautifully because Lovely’s is a small restaurant and we snagged one of the last tables for two (or three, if you count James).
We ordered two pies here. One was just a plain with mozzarella, and this one had sundried tomatoes, kale, and calabrian chilis. These pizzas are wood-fired, the dough is naturally levened using Oregon-grown whole grains, and most of their ingredients come straight from local farms.
It’s not your traditional Neapolitan pizza, and it isn’t like a NYC sourdough either. This is a Portland pizza, entirely it’s own. We loved them. The crust is amazing, and we would have ranked it higher than Nostrana, and also made sure that it had a spot on the more recent lists. We even let James nibble on the crust.
Just see how he is eyeing these pizzas! We’re going to have a hard time keeping him away from our pies for much longer.
If you make your way here, you should probably just focus on the specialty seasonal pies, and skip the traditional cheese. And make sure to save room for ice cream, which we didn’t (because we had birthday cake back at our AirBnb). Looking back on it and reading reviews of the ice cream makes us regret our decision to skip dessert.
To visit:
Lovely's Fifty Fifty
4039 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR 97217
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