PDX Pizza Week 2022 - Day 7

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Well, for the final day of Pizza Week I decided to keep it simple, but make the trek (drive) out to the St. Johns neighborhood for the offering at the pizzeria LoveVerona.

Day 7 of 7 pizza eats were:

Pizza Name: The Butcher Pie

What's on it?: Tomato Sauce, Pepperoni, Bacon, Prosciutto, House Made Italian Sausage, Romano Cheese

The Inspiration: Speaking of our employees, we have an incredible (mostly) female-powered staff who make workplace and restaurant so special, warm, and inviting. Because of their amazing attention to detail, customer service, and passion for good pizza, our business thrives every single day. We wouldn’t want to be working with anyone else in any other city, and we can’t wait to continue expanding our Portland footprint for many years to come. 

I called in the order to pick up as a late-ish lunch (was a semi-productive lounging/laundry/#homehaircut morning/midday), and ordered the pizza plus their Pera Italiana salad.  It was 30 minutes to pick-up time and it took me about that long to drive out to St. Johns.  Which is another neighborhood I really like but never make it out to.

Pizza was picked up, then quick stop at the Safeway on the same block for some Stellas, and was back home to enjoy pizza/salad/beer for day and evening eating.

Pics of le spread:



All was great -- the pizza, for being so meat forward, didn't eat too heavily and wasn't too greasy.  But still was glad I ordered that salad to balance out the meat pizza a bit.  Interesting to note that I don't see prosciutto offered on pizza that often, and I'd say it was a toss-up between the bacon and the prosciutto for being most dominant flavor.  I don't care for bacon on pizza because it tends to take over everything else, but here I definitely still got the saltiness of the prosciutto even with the bacon going on.

Was also happy that I got a full 16" pizza for $20 and that quality was on point with everything.  Ate half the pizza and half the full salad as late lunch, and will likely finish out the rest for dinner this evening.  And will definitely try out LoveVerona again in these coming weeks.

And with that, it's a wrap for Portland Pizza Week.  Glad I got to partake so fully for my favorite food here this past week, and I feel fortunate to live in a city that does things like this!

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