This Pizzeria Tops Pies With Pineapple Simply As soon as a Yr
Robert McMullin doesn’t imagine in pineapple as a pizza topping. You received’t even discover it as an possibility on the menu at his restaurant, Piatto Neapolitan Pizzeria in Wichita, Kansas. Properly, apart from right now.
In honor of Nationwide Pizza Get together Day, historically noticed on the third Friday of Might, McMullin is giving in to pineapple partisans with a one-day particular: the Pineapple Al Pastor pizza.It’s such a uncommon event that McMullin has even created a Fb occasion for it. “It’s your one and ONLY night time to get pineapple on pizza,” the put up states. “So that you higher get in right here.”
The pizza options pineapple and al pastor meat (seasoned and marinated pork) provided by Taqueria La Chona, a well-liked Mexican restaurant in Wichita.
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Piatto has additionally partnered with close by Hopping Gnome Brewing Firm to advertise the pie. Hopping Gnome is celebrating its eighth anniversary with the grand opening of a brand new location on Friday, Might 19. Prospects will be capable to scan a QR code within the brewery’s faucet room to order the Pineapple Al Pastor pizza, then stroll throughout the alley to choose it up at Piatto.
Different pies on the Piatto menu embody the Margherita With Speck (smoked prosciutto, contemporary basil, contemporary mozzarella and olive oil), the ‘Nduja (‘nduja, basil, contemporary mozz and olive oil) and the Diavola (spicy salami, shaved garlic, smoked sea salt, contemporary mozz and olive oil). The pies are baked in an enormous Stefano Ferrara oven at 850°F to 900°F for 60 to 90 seconds. To study the Neapolitan pizza craft, McMullin studied beneath grasp pizzaiolo Enzo Coccia in Naples, Italy.
However pineapple followers need to get the Pineapple Al Pastor whereas it’s scorching. It received’t be again for one more twelve months, McMullin informed the Wichita Eagle. “I imply, I like pineapple on this pizza, however pineapple isn’t going to be on our menu,” he stated. “It’s not going to occur.”
