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ISSUE #33.20 • SPECIAL SECTION •

CHEAP EATS: Pizza Places


Whether you have it delivered or pick it up yourself, the holy 'za is dinner (or lunch or breakfast) on your terms.

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Pizza Fino
IMAGE: Tom Oliver
BY BEN WATERHOUSE | bwaterhouse at wweek dot com

[March 28th, 2007] This may be the wrong place to say it, this being a cheap-eats guide and all, but sometimes don't you just want to fill your gut without having to deal with a bunch of surly waiters and screaming children? There's only one solution—pizza!

Artisans aside, the best pizza to be had in this burg, hands-down, is the no-frills Manhattanite pie at Escape from New York . The secret? The musclebound dough-flingers sprinkle a fine layer of hostility and disdain over each and every slice. Grab a slice at the counter ($2.25-$2.75), or call ahead to pick up a large ($14.50 and up) to feed a crowd.

Living life way after midnight? Call Hammy's! This Clinton Street carryout joint has cornered the insomniac market by boldly taking pizza where it's never gone before—namely the streets of Portland between midnight and 4 am. And—get this—Hammy's pies (16-inch $13-$17, $1-$2 delivery fee) are good!

Want a little more class with your cheese? Brand-new North Portland spot Pizza Fino has a large sit-down menu of pasta and sandwiches, served in a glossy dining room—but who cares? Call ahead and pick up a tasty, thin-crusted pizza topped with local, organic goodies from pancetta to pine nuts, and be happy.














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Of course, sometimes you just want some goddamn pepperoni, and you want it delivered. Like, right now. If you're kickin' it in Southeast, call up Stark Naked Pizza and they'll be at your door with a decent slab of cheesy, spicy goodness in 20 minutes flat. On a Friday. For serious.

Then again, maybe good pizza isn't really what you had in mind. Maybe what you really need is a heart-stopping mess of grease to stuff down your drunken maw after you've stumbled out of an early-evening drinking session at Virginia Cafe. That's why God gave us Rocco's (949 SW Oak St., 223-9835), where you can get a barely edible heap of cheese and tomato paste as big as a toddler for $2.75. Until midnight. Rocco's also delivers, but, like, eww.

Food Finder: View all of our restaurant reviews in the Food Finder www.foodfinder.wweek...

Introduction: Cheap Eats 2007.
The Perfect Portland Takeout Place: Build your own four-star meal.
Hot Chefs, Cheap Eats: Where the pros eat cheap.
Breakfast and Brunch: Five faves with estimated wait times.
Pizza Places: The holy 'za on your terms.
Square Deals: Dirt cheap eats.
Free Eats: Partake of Portland's culinary cornucopia without dropping a cent.
Restaurant Listings: From A to M
Restaurant Listings: From N to Z

 









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RECENT COMMENTS ON “CHEAP EATS: Pizza Places”

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I am so glad someone finally agrees with me about Rocco's!!! I lived right up the street from it when they first put it in there on Burnside so of course we had to give it a shot. After paying for w...

Gini, Apr 10th, 2007 6:15am
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Man, I cannot believe you dissed Rocco's. Rocco's was my fave 'Za joint when I used to live in Beaveron years ago, haven't lived in the Metro area since'98, and I miss it. Everyone I know that is he...

D Winchester, Jun 15th, 2007 4:27am
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Take note as you will be writing about it next year... UFO Pizza on 60th & NE Glisan is under a new owner and just re-opened to serve a fabulous 'Za! The pizza is all fresh ingrediants and tastes ama...

Eileen, Feb 16th, 2008 9:58pm
 
 
 





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