- Apizza Scholls
Apizza Scholls
4741 SE Hawthorne Blvd.Portland, OR 97214
Southeast
503.233.1286
www.apizzascholls.com
Hours: Tue-Sat 5pm-9:30pm
Restaurant Details
Crispy crust, hand-crafted artisan pizza topped with fresh ingredients. Considered one of the best pizzas in Portland, and it better be: the wait for a table can be a test in patience so have a snack before you go. No take-out, no delivery.
Price: $$$
Payment Type: Visa, MC
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This place is worth the wait—I've always enjoyed their appetizer platters, which are stacked with roasted veggies (like eggplant, roasted peppers, artichoke), olives, fresh mozzerella cheese, and bread. But don't fill up too much! Save room for the great fired pizzas.
Yeah, the line takes forever (if there's only a couple of you, skip it and eat at the bar). And yeah, there are no slices, no take-out, no All Meat Marvel combinations, and it kind of sucks that you never can tell when they'll close ("when we run out of dough"). But the pizza oh damn the pizza. Case in point: There are snapshots on the barback of Grimaldi's, arguably the best thin-crust joint in NYC. Turns out some of the Scholl's staff had gone there on sort of a pilgrimage a while back, so you know they're aiming high. Thing is, Scholls' crust is better. Seriously. The woman behind the bar agreed. I used to live like 15 minutes from Grimaldi's and it's really good pizza, but this place is better. Portland has better thin-crust pizza than New York. There. I said it.
I used to live in NY and the Pasty Grimaldi analogy is apt. This is high-end pizza. The truffle oil pizza is outstanding, the best thing on the menu. We still need a good deep-dish pizza place in this city....
Is this the best pizza I have had in Puddletown? yeah it is. Is any pizza worth a nearly 3 hour wait and nights plans blown while table after table that arrived long after are served? I don't know... I still think about that pie, but you really have to be dedicated for that kind of time devoted to Pizza? I will say though that the wait staff really needs to learn how to manage the throngs better...
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