Recently in Pizza Category

I've been to Este before and written about it in the past. But it has been a long time since my last visit and it was at their other location. Recently I took the other brother to this new downtown location. It was his first visit to any Este location and my first visit to this new location.

Purely by coincidence I ended up eating here twice in the last week or so. A dinner during the week and then lunch on Saturday. Este still rates as some of the best pizza that I've had here in Utah and even outside of Utah. Highly recommended as a New York-style thin pizza and well worth the visit whether in downtown Salt Lake City or down in Sugarhouse at their location just off 21st South.

156 East 200 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Several months ago my brother and I went to Emigration Market. It is a neighborhood grocery store in Salt Lake City on the corner of 1700 S and 1300 S. It has obviously been there for quite awhile. It is a pretty typical market, but you can tell they have started to take up the trend of local and artisan made products. Along with all their typical grocery items they feature a lot of Utah produced products. And their bakery seemed to be a step above a typical grocery bakery. The thing that piqued my interest was some signs they had up advertising a restaurant that they were building in front of the store. It had claims of wood-fired pizza and other things. And then I kind of forgot about it.

Last fall I wrote my impressions of Big City Soup. It was good then. I have been back several times since then. It is still good. They have figured out how to make soup. But I write today with both trepidation and excitement.

I caught the smell of wood smoke half a block away as I was walking to this new little pizza place in downtown Salt Lake. My visit this week was the result of another walk I had taken on a week or two earlier.

Most afternoons I need some time to get out of my office and stretch my legs out and breath some fresh air. I am usually surprised at how much ground I can cover walking around downtown Salt Lake on a 15 minute break from work. A week or so ago as I was heading home from work, driving past one of my favorite downtown restaurants, Red Rock Brewery, and I noticed a very unassuming new sign painted along the top edge of the brick building immediately south of Red Rock. At the time, being in the car, I couldn't really figure out what it was, but you could see the chairs and tables through the windows.

Several days later, that chance sighting turned my feet in that direction while I was out for a quick walk one afternoon. Walking past, I had one more piece to the puzzle. The name on the sign -- Settebello. Back in my office I did a quick search for Settebello online and could only find a web site for a pizza restaurant outside of Las Vegas in Henderson. No mention of another location, not even a coming soon teaser.

That same evening as my brother drove out of town on our way home, I drove past the place again to show it to him and this time there was a big white banner strung across the trees in front of the restaurant. It was simple and to the point, black letters on a white background proclaiming "Wood-fired Pizza, Now Open." The was all I needed. Wood, fire and pizza all in the same context and I'm sold. That was last week.

Just heard about this one. I always like to support local business.

Rock Creek Pizza Co.
10255 South 1300 East
Sandy, UT
801-572-1717
www.rockcreekpizzaco.com