{"id":5921,"date":"2011-07-13T10:22:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2011-07-13T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T17:22:26","slug":"vancouver-wa-bortolamis-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=5921","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver, WA – Bortolami’s Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Stopped here at the rec of a fellow Yelper, while passing thru the area <\/strong> yesterday.\u00a0 I had a car load of people of varying ilks (gluten free, vegetarian, and me – garbage-atarian) (I eat anything), and the menu offered something for everyone.\u00a0\u00a0 Three small pies and a Greek salad put me back $61, which was a little brutal, I thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bortolami’s is an unassuming place in a small strip mall; the decor is “neo-bicycle”, with bikes, accessories, and racing shirts hung from the walls and ceiling.\u00a0 A flat screen plays sports channels.\u00a0 I cannot say whether or not the motif adds to “ambiance,” so let’s just call it a theme,\u00a0 that carries through to the menu, with specialty pies having bike-oriented names.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The crust is Boboli-like.\u00a0 Puffy, with a crusty bottom, chewy and doughy. It’s a quality crust, if your preference leans towards this type of thickness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The red sauce leans towards the recipes that provide a sweet, rather than savory flavor, quantities of cheese and the flavor it imparts is good.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The toppings range from very fresh cut vegetables, to prepared, standard pizzeria variety.\u00a0 In the latter end, the Italian sausage is the medium, pre-cooked (I suspect) type, but with very good flavor, nice fennel and a bit of kick, and the pepperoni has a slightly higher fat content, resulting in two things on a pie – more flavor, but with slight cupping and charring, which is actually what I prefer out of my pepperoni.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All that said, the pie is VERY filling, and\u00a0 even the small size is too much for most diners to polish off in one sitting. I had two slices of the medium, and caved, having to polish it off in several settings at home, including this morning, and if you are a<\/strong>
\n regular reader, you know my own personal “ultimate” pizza test, is how good it<\/strong>
\n is the next morning cold, and Bortolamis shines in this category for me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Greek salad was very nice, greens with thin-sliced purple onion, black olives, and lots of feta, with a paper ramekin of Greek-type salad dressing on the side.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Would I go back?\u00a0 For certain, if I was spending time in the area, or passing through again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you live within spitting distance of this pie shop, I recommend you give it a try.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stopped here at the rec of a fellow Yelper, while passing thru the area yesterday.\u00a0 I had a car load of people of varying ilks (gluten free, vegetarian, and me – garbage-atarian) (I eat anything), and the menu offered something for everyone.\u00a0\u00a0 Three small pies and a Greek salad put me back $61, which was… Continue reading Vancouver, WA – Bortolami’s 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":[16,34,22,26],"tags":[703,2857,3621],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921"}],"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=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}