1.31.2011

Mellow Mushroom

Do we need another pizza place in the area? Yes, yes we do. If you hate LaRosa's pizza like I do, you'll welcome Mellow Mushroom into your pizza options. It is a bit out of the way for some and I question if Wilder was really the best location for this restaurant. I'm sure there was a monetary motivation.

We ordered the garlic bread with cheese. It came on one of their sesame seeded hoagy buns. Pretty tasty - a little lacking in the garlic department. But tasty.

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I ordered half red skinned potato (red potato, ranch, bacon, chives) / half Kosmic Karma (tomato, spinach, pesto, sun dried tomato). It was really good. Next time I'd prefer the Kosmic Karma with an olive oil base instead of red sauce.

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You know, I'm starting to find that there is something wrong with my camera phone. What is up with these photos?

This, if you can see it, is a vegan calzone. There's mushroom, spinach, tomato and vegan cheese. I had a bite of it and it was pretty excellent. The vegan cheese they use is apparently the only one that melts. And melt it does! It tasted kind of like a fresh mozzarella, very creamy. BTW - The calzone was the size of a 10" pizza.

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Here's a vegan hoagy on pita bread instead of hoagy bun with Tempeh. Mixed in are mushroom, onion and green peppers. This sandwich was huge! It comes with a small bag of chips which you may not be able to eat.

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Pat got the Mighty Meat pizza. It was pretty mighty. 5 different kinds of meat, all the usual suspects. Their crust is really delicious. It's large and brown, crunchy and pillowy soft on the inside. It tastes really freshly made. Pat also had a mixed drink called "Dirty Bong Water" it was good. It just tasted like purple though.

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This is going to be an instant hit with the vegetarian/vegan crowd because they finally have another option that isn't Thai food. For the meat eaters out there it's going to be equally popular because the pizza is good, tons of beer choices, friendly staff.

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