Paper Bag Pizza

By Matthew Korfhage

2880 SE Division St. (Tidbit pod), 971-300-7833. Lunch and diner Wednesday-Monday.

The fires of Pyro's second pizza oven, at Tidbit, did not dim for long: Immediately, two former Pastaworks employees started stoking the wood fires every day except Tuesday as Paper Bag Pizza, with single-serve $8 cheese pies just about as economical as Pyro's, with charred Neapolitan-style crust, slightly acidic (and maybe sparse) sauce, and decadent build-your-own topping options like hedgehog mushrooms ($1), oil-cured olives (50 cents) and some really nice anchovies ($1). The cart regularly has specials like a radicchio-guanciale Bitter Pig and a Truffle Shuffle pie with truffled pecorino, sausage and chilies. But the real fun here is in creating new concoctions: pancetta, parsley and lemon ($9.50), perhaps? Sausage, roasted garlic, and oil-cured olives ($10.50)? Maybe even anchovies and goat cheese ($9.50)? Whatever, man. It's all good.

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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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