My one-day oven building class at Silverwood Park in the Twin Cities is now available for registration through this link.
My classes at Silverwood have always filled, so if you want to take a class this year so you can build an oven this year, this is your remaining opportunity.
8/22/11: Apparently the class is full. We are planning to do a little deliberate overbooking, so you might still be able to sneak in.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Community Oven Map, United States
I realized that there is no reason not to include my US community oven map in my blog as well, since my other maps appear here as well.
So here it is:
So here it is:
Roma Restaurant, Bar and Market, Willernie, Minnesota Field Report
I made a lunchtime visit to the Roma Restaurant, Bar and Market, Willernie, Minnesota. They are located at 460 Stillwater Road, Willernie, MN 55090. (Note that they also have a Restaurant page on Facebook.) They are on my map of wood-fired oven businesses in Minnesota.
The outside of the building is directly in front of its narrow parking lot. From what I could see of the interior, it looks like they added the oven and expanded next door to their original location in 2008.
The oven is tucked into the front corner of the original space, back behind the counter and by the kitchen. You can barely see it from their dining room.
One can really see that this is a wood-fired oven. (A small image of one appears on their home page.) They don't really explain where the oven comes from (or why they wanted one), but it certainly does its job.
The menus for Roma Restaurant are available for downloading. I took my wife there for lunch, and we ordered the Balsamico (without the proscuitto, since we are vegetarians). Service seemed attentive and fast. My wife and I both thought it was delicious.
We found the crust to be very tender, not the hard, chewy crusts we often find with any pizzas, but especially with WFO pizzas.
There were several other pizzas on the menu we wanted to try, plus there are lots of other tasty-looking items that are not wood-fired oven pizzas.
There is a sign in their window that says they can par bake their pizzas so you can finish baking them at home. That would be an interesting option to try.
It's certainly not in our neighborhood, but if we happen to find ourselves in that corner of the Twin Cities Metro again, we will stop in for another visit.
The outside of the building is directly in front of its narrow parking lot. From what I could see of the interior, it looks like they added the oven and expanded next door to their original location in 2008.
The oven is tucked into the front corner of the original space, back behind the counter and by the kitchen. You can barely see it from their dining room.
One can really see that this is a wood-fired oven. (A small image of one appears on their home page.) They don't really explain where the oven comes from (or why they wanted one), but it certainly does its job.
The menus for Roma Restaurant are available for downloading. I took my wife there for lunch, and we ordered the Balsamico (without the proscuitto, since we are vegetarians). Service seemed attentive and fast. My wife and I both thought it was delicious.
We found the crust to be very tender, not the hard, chewy crusts we often find with any pizzas, but especially with WFO pizzas.
There were several other pizzas on the menu we wanted to try, plus there are lots of other tasty-looking items that are not wood-fired oven pizzas.
There is a sign in their window that says they can par bake their pizzas so you can finish baking them at home. That would be an interesting option to try.
It's certainly not in our neighborhood, but if we happen to find ourselves in that corner of the Twin Cities Metro again, we will stop in for another visit.
Maps and Wood-Fired Businesses
I have now done three maps of wood-fired businesses (mostly wood-fired ovens): Wisconsin, Washington, and Minnesota. I might do one for the VPN-certified pizza places in the US and Canada. (There is also a map of community ovens that I know about.)
I have no plans to do any other maps unless there are some requests to do so.
So, if there are any maps you really want to see, comment to me, and I will add requests to my "to do" list.
I have no plans to do any other maps unless there are some requests to do so.
So, if there are any maps you really want to see, comment to me, and I will add requests to my "to do" list.