Apizza Apizza:  Apizza Scholls

"While apizza can be considered a subtype of pizza, ... anyone who has ever had the pleasure of tasting a true apizza knows the combination of contrasting textures, flavorful crust, salty cheese, unique topping combinations, and just a little bit of char contribute to its signature oomph." 

H loves pizza. Friday was meh day, with grey weather and not much to do, a great time to go out, but nothing fancy. Apizza Scholls (which is not on Scholls ferry road as I'd always thought) is consistently on lists of PDX best places so we headed out with intentions of early dinner, which for us is 4 ish - better for digesting things like cheese.

Rush hour traffic, we arrive at around 4:30. There is a sign -The Line forms Here. They open at five. early birds that we are, we could have been first in line, however, when we got back from our walk, there were at least ten people already in line, and kept growing. 

Precisely at five. the doors open and people are directed to tables around the room. Service begins immediately - I barely have time to read the menu, which features two salads, apizza and Calzone on certain days only.  We order Caesar salad and half Paulie Gee (with meat and hot honey,) half Tartufo, white with truffles and mushrooms). Every table received the same fast, to the point and efficient service. 

What we really liked about this place is that it focuses on one thing, and they do it really well. We rated the salad second best of our series, (the beet salad from last week is tough to beat.) A generous plate of utterly crisp romaine, chunks of parmesan, croutons and perfect dressing. We licked the plate. 

And the 18" pizza (apizza) beat our H's favorite - this had a perfect thin crust with a great crisp outer ring. Each of the generous toppings was delicious. And we took half home to enjoy again. Everything about this experience was excellent - I understand why people wait online to get in - it's that good. 

Ten out of ten for food, service and just being good at what they do

$60