Picklesburgh Pickle Pizza from Iron Born
And the family visits Italian Village Pizza, a real Italian treat.
Hi there!
Well it’s Picklesburgh which means hoards of humans will wander downtown this weekend to purchase all sorts of pickle products. Pickle lasagna, pickle juice, pickle Christmas items. Think of something, then think of it pickled.
Each year there’s at least one pickle pizza vendor downtown to treat visitors to the majesty of pickles on a pizza. A pickle pizza is refreshing, cooling, salty, and vibrant. It’s the ideal slice for a hot, crowded food festival and would encourage everyone to try a slice. Especially this year, because the Pickle Pizza situation is getting a huge upgrade.
No longer will you be forced to spend too much money for a generic slice of Pickle Pizza from a mysterious vendor. This year you’ll get to to buy pickle pizza from Iron Born. The pickle pizza available from Iron Born looks to also be available in their Strip District location and is topped with the following:Garlic Cream. Roasted Pickles. Raw Pickles. Ricotta Cheese. Romano. Sounds divine and totally crushable. Pair that with an ice cold seltzer and we got a best in show award coming to Iron Born pizza
This is a nice return to form when we first saw the Pizza Boat gang post up on the Roberto Clemente bridge in 2017 for the inaugural Picklesburgh event, serving up freshly baked pizza with an assortment of pickled veggies.
Stop on by Iron Born and check out their exquisite pickle branding.
Scenes from an Italian Village Pizza
The family visited the Italian Village Pizza Trattoria. According to my dad, but not the dictionary, trattoria means treat and what a trattoria this visit was!
I had the occasional Italian Village Pizza slice around town, but never experienced a fresh pie in a sit-down environment. My dad is going to do a full write-up, but I found the pizza very filling, undercooked and a bit too glue-esque. Maybe a bad night, but the more I ate the less I wanted to eat.
Still we had fun. We got a pizza with sausage and peppers that was well cooked. We also got a cheese pizza that looked alien to the one next to it.
The sausage pizza was superior in every way, but I was hankering for a crushable simple cheese pizza. This was anything but. Gloopy, chewy, unappealing. I took the leftovers home and after some time in the oven they came out much crisper and enjoyable.
Charlie performed a no-look cheesing of her slice of which she took two bites out of and called it a night.
Perhaps we’ll give it another shot in the future. The fresh pasta did look good, so maybe that’s worth investigating. Wait for a full write-up from Tommy T for more mature thoughts on the pizza.
Light pizza week, but I know you got some pizza adventures this weekend. Heck, I’m making pizzas this very night! Hit me up with some pizza journeys, would love to hear about it.
Oh yeah I’d be remised if I didn’t post my video of the Spak Bros. Pickle Pizza which I created in the depths of covid, sleep deprived from dealing with a young child. Ha, fun times.
Pizza ya later!
-Dan Tallarico, Pizza Journalist