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#76 Delancey

February 3rd, 2019

Seattle, Washington

After our weekend in Portland, we decided to rent a car and drive to Seattle to visit two new pizza places that made the list in 2018. First on the list was Delancey. Delancey is only open for dinner, and we were a little worried about getting a table without having to wait because we’ve heard that the wait here can be hours. Especially because James was getting a bit hungry after sitting the car during the drive.

We shouldn’t have worried. Since it was Superbowl Sunday, the restaurant was pretty empty. We walked right in and were seated. We split the Brussels sprouts appetizer, which was delicious, and the Brooklyn pie. There were so many good looking pizzas on their menu! The pizzas are all wood-fired, so the crust had a nice char. The crust was on the thin side, and it had a nice cheese:sauce ratio. We can see how it made the 2018 list, but we honestly preferred the pizza at Lovely’s Fifty Fifty the night before.

We don’t doubt that this pizza is the best in Seattle. The owner, Brian Pettit, apparently spent a very long time perfecting his crust recipe so that it is similar to a Neapolitan crust, but still holds up stiffly to the unique toppings and sauces.

If you’re interested in reading more about the start and history of this restaurant, which has been operating for the last 10 years, Pettit’s wife, Molly Wizenberg, published a memoir about it back in 2014. Wizenberg has made her own contributions to Delancey, but also has a history as a writer for Bon Appétit and several other foodie outlets. The book also includes recipes – so we’ve now added it to our reading list!

To visit:

Delancey 
1415 NW 70th St.
Seattle, WA 98117

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#46 Serious Pie

April 23, 2016

Seattle, Washington

Right after our LA trip, we booked another trip out west to Seattle and Portland to visit some friends.  We had a long weekend in Seattle and we spent most of the weekend exploring the market and the waterfront and eating plenty of donuts. We didn’t go visit the Space Needle or the original Starbucks, but we did see fish being thrown and ate plenty of seafood on the docks. There was only one pizza place on the list in Seattle, Serious Pie, so we went with our friends for dinner after one of our days exploring.

We were a group of four, and if you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that we usually need to order about one pizza per person. However, we had spent most of the day eating, so we only ordered three different pies here. It was a good choice.

We ended up trying a regular Margherita, with buffalo mozzarella, tomato sauce, and fresh basil, a sausage pie with roasted peppers and provolone, and a potato pizza seasoned with rosemary and topped with pecorino romano cheese.

Side note: Serious Pie also has biscuits at one of their locations! We did not try them, but I get the feeling that they are almost as famous for the biscuits as they are for the pizza. They look pretty awesome.

 

Overall, we liked these pizzas a lot. They are apple-wood fired in a stone oven, which means that the crust is nicely charred. The crust was also very airy and light, which was good considering all of the donuts we had eaten earlier in the day. The cheeses and meats were fresh and there were some really interesting flavor combinations on the menu. We really liked the ratio of sauce:cheese on the Margherita. The potato pizza didn’t quite live up to the one at BAR, but we think that a potato pizza is a bit on the heavy side with such a thick crust.

One of the Serious Pie locations has recently closed (as of May 1st) to make room for a Starbucks Roastery and Tasting Room. It is not an exaggeration to say that Seattle has plenty of coffee snobs. For a while, the pizzeria was operating as a part of the Tasting Room, but no longer. Luckily there are a couple of other locations in Seattle that you can visit.

And the next time we go to Seattle, we should try some of these. If we don’t fill up on donuts, of course.

To visit:

Serious Pie
316 Virginia St
Seattle, WA 98101

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