{"id":5456,"date":"2011-03-23T15:31:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T22:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2011-03-23T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T22:31:54","slug":"portland-town-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=5456","title":{"rendered":"Portland, OR &#8211; Old Town Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5457\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oldtown2-png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5457\" title=\"Old Town Pizza, Portland\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oldtown2-png-204x300.png\" alt=\"Old Town Pizza, Portland\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Town Pizza, Portland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Everybody raves about Old Town Pizza, just look at the front page of their website:\u00a0 &#8220;<em>Something to Experience before You Die&#8221;;\u00a0 &#8220;Visited by the Tonight Show and Rachel Ray&#8217;s Tasty Travels<\/em>&#8220;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So what are my raves about Old Town?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a really nice building and space.\u00a0 Oh, and it&#8217;s a really nice building and space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I went with their normal crust, which is kind of &#8220;Boboli-like&#8221; in nature; they now offer a &#8220;new thin crust&#8221; but it only comes in a smaller version. (Wot? Wot?).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The sauce is non-descript, and the cheese, well, is cheese.\u00a0 I was really excited from the menu description of the &#8220;house-made sausage&#8221;, but it wasn&#8217;t all that flavorful, and the bits were miniscule.\u00a0\u00a0 There are lots of great house-made sausages around town, and this isn&#8217;t one of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You place your order at the &#8216;order counter&#8217;, and it&#8217;s not really clear that if you want drinks, you can pay together or separate (at least it wasn&#8217;t to me).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The order-taker gives you a playing card, and your pizza is brought out when it is ready.\u00a0 If your server is ambitious, you&#8217;ll get flatware, plates, and napkins.\u00a0 If they aren&#8217;t, you&#8217;ll have to ask.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Standard seasonings adorn each table.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m just moving into a new office in Old Town, and I was really hoping this place was going to be my twice-weekly stop or delivery choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Did I mention it&#8217;s a really nice building?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5462\" style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oldtown1-png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5462 \" title=\"Old Town Pizza, Portland\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oldtown1-png.png\" alt=\"Old Town Pizza, Portland\" width=\"416\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Town Pizza, Portland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/24\/282604\/restaurant\/Chinatown-Old-Town\/Old-Town-Pizza-Portland\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/282604\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Old Town Pizza on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody raves about Old Town Pizza, just look at the front page of their website:\u00a0 &#8220;Something to Experience before You Die&#8221;;\u00a0 &#8220;Visited by the Tonight Show and Rachel Ray&#8217;s Tasty Travels&#8220;. So what are my raves about Old Town?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a really nice building and space.\u00a0 Oh, and it&#8217;s a really nice building and space.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=5456\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portland, OR &#8211; Old Town Pizza<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22,26],"tags":[770,992,2499,2543,2857,3495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}