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Can You Eat Every Pizza In The Universe?

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
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Well, almost every pizza in the universe.

Okay, okay… every pizza on our menu.  And a bunch that aren’t.

Buffet Night

Buffet Night - Every Tuesday

A long, long time ago, we decided that a good way for us to get a little more adventurous in the kitchen was to create regular chef specials.  These would be the pies that we dreamed of.  Things that didn’t quite fit on the menu, but we thought would be really delicious.

But how to get the word out?

Enter Buffet Tuesdays (hey, that’s today!).  Here’s the basic idea:  We put out a bunch of pies from the menu, favorites like The Classic, The Chipotle Chicken, and The Margherita.  Plus salads.

Then, we rotate in some Chef’s Specials.  They’re basically kitchen creations based on our own taste buds, along with suggestions from all of you.  Thanks for making them, and Buffet Tuesday, such a success.

Here’s a look at how we do it…

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As The Pie Burns, A blog in many parts

Monday, September 21st, 2009
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Pies and Pints was born in my mind years before I met Kim Shingledecker at the wonderful Solitude Mountain Resort in SLC Utah. After having worked in the pizza business on Long Island for a long time; I moved on to a short stint as a brewers assistant at Long Islands own Blue Point Brewing Co. It was after this that I started thinking about combining creative pizza, world class beer, and good music in one environment.

Many journal entries later I moved out west to Utah. It was there that I met my business partner and the person who convinced me that we could open a restaurant with only $2,500 in each of our pockets.

Kimberly Shingledecker had already opened the Cathedral Cafe and sold it, this was good news to me. She had a place in mind, showed me some photos, and a few months later I pulled into Fayetteville during an extremely rain soaked April.

Wow! There I was in the quaint town Fayetteville. Enthusiastic, excited, ambitious, scared, worried. Does it rain like this all the time was one of my first questions to those I met. Assured that the sun does shine, the fact that we will do well, ( We were assured this by the kind gentleman who sold us our first piece of equipment in Utah, a scale) and the positive vibe from all the new locals I was meeting, we embarked on an adventure that continues to this day.

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