Update: The Serious Pie in this location
closed in May 2017 at the behest of Starbucks.
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Sweet fennel sausage and roasted pepper pizza
Serious Pie, Capitol Hill, Seattle |
For my money the best pizza in Seattle -- actually my favorite pizza I've ever had, including in New York, Chicago and Italy -- is at Serious Pie. And this one has cocktails! This third instantiation of Tom Douglas's pizza joints is inside the
Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room, the Willie Wonka-like coffee roasting plant and "espresso & brewed coffee megabar," where you can watch your beans exit the roasters and rush through copper pneumatic tubes to the barristas and grinders. The large space is a 1920s Packard dealership remodeled to
LEED specifications and re-imagined as a massive, steampunk coffee cathedral.
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Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room
Capitol Hill, Seattle |
The pizza is naturally excellent. There are choices for people who like lettuce on their pizza -- or clams, leeks, or eggs. But if you are a carnivore you must, must, must try the one with sweet fennel sausage, roasted peppers, and provolone. Do not jump prematurely into any agreement to share -- you will want all of this pizza.
It's not the sort of place you're likely to come for a (non-coffee) drink, but the cocktails are very good. On this visit I quite enjoyed the "Old and Bitter," plainly named with people like me in mind.
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Serious Pie, Capitol Hill, Seattle |
1124 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101 - (206) 923-8012
Est. Dec 5, 2014 - Closed May 1, 2017 - Building constructed: 1920
Previous bars in this location: None known
Web site:
seriouspieseattle.com
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