Oven and Shaker, Portland, Oregon

A Willamette Week restaurant review covered two wood-fired pizza places in Portland, Oregon at once.

The second restaurant reviewed was Oven and Shaker, Portland, Oregon.

The review says in part,

Oven and Shaker’s wood-burning oven came ... from Italy, but Whims’ devotion to Northwestern bounty is reflected in her thoroughly untraditional pizza toppings, which include bosc pear, roasted squash and Oregon anchovy. Best of all is the chanterelle, radicchio, fontina, leeks and fried capers pizza ($15), which tastes like a crisp December morning. (If you’d rather not experiment, you can get a standard Margherita or salami pie.)

The web site for Oven and Shaker says in part:

Oven and Shaker is a new urban saloon, bringing delectable wood-burning oven pizza, Italian street food, and ingredient-driven, classic cocktails to Portland’s Pearl District. Oven and Shaker is the collective vision of three Portland hospitality veterans: three-time James Beard nominated chef Cathy Whims (Nostrana), veteran Northwest bartender Ryan Magarian, and ChefStable visionary Kurt Huffman.

This sounds like an Oregon locavore's dream

Via Tribunali, Portland, Oregon

A Willamette Week restaurant review covered two wood-fired pizza places in Portland, Oregon at once.

The first restaurant that it covered was Via Tribunali, Portland, Oregon. (This location is part of a chain of Via Tribunali restaurants.)

The review says in part:

There seems to be no disorder in the kitchen, though. Via Tribunali’s oven runs so hot—1,200 degrees Fahrenheit—that pizzas arrive within 10 minutes of ordering even on a busy night. They are impeccable: thin, very chewy, 12-inch pies, their bottoms charred, their sauces fragrant. The house special ($17) is a rolled-edge thing, topped with tomato sauce, smoked mozzarella, cherry tomato, ricotta, buffalo mozzarella, grana padano and basil, that’s about halfway to a calzone. It’s good, but too doughy for my taste. I prefer the basic Margherita ($13, though it’s worth paying another $3 to upgrade to springy, tangy buffalo mozzarella) or, better, the quattro formaggi. The latter is among the best things I’ve eaten this year, covered in a thick-but-not-too-thick stratum of mozzarella, smoked provola and grana padano studded with little land mines of Gorgonzola that detonate on the palate. There are things other than pizza on the menu—a very good mixed salumi board and pleasant, unremarkable salads—and the bar makes a very fine Negroni, but everything is overshadowed by the pizza.

It sounds like an interesting outpost for the Seattle-based chain.

FireWorks, Corvalis, Oregon

An on-line article from the Corvalis Gazeette-Times talks about the evolution of the FireWorks Restaurant and Catering, Corvalis, Oregon.

It's an interesting article, which says in part, "Shufelt’s training in Old World cuisine fits perfectly with the restaurant’s wood-fired oven and newfound focus on pizza. Anyone who has spent time in Italy will tell you that pizzas were meant to be cooked the wood-fired way. It creates a crispy thin crust that can turn a thin-crust hater (present company included) into a believer. Shufelt and Liff-Anderson are convinced their venue now has the best pizza in the mid-valley."

Bend Pizza, Bend, Orgeon

It seems like Bend Oregon must be a hotbed of mobile pizza businesses.

Now I have found Bend Pizza, which seems to be the third mobile pizza business in Oregon that I have found today.

Their "About Us" page says in part, "In the Spring of 2010, Chris set out to make the first-ever, MOBILE BRICK OVEN, in Central Oregon! Employing his own passion, and with just the right amount of help from others with a little expertise in masonry and fabrication... Chris has successfully built his Mobile Brick Oven... and is ready to start making fresh, delicious pizza for the masses!!"

The Pizza Cart, Bend, Oregon

A post in the Visit Bend blog mentioned The Pizza Cart, Bend, Oregon.

The post says in part, "The Pizza Cart offers hot brick oven pizza. You can get thin crust personal pies made with hand-rolled dough, homemade sauce, local meats from the Redmond Smokehouse, hand roasted vegetables and fresh delicious cheeses."

Pyro Pizza, Portland, Oregon

While looking for a different restaurant on the web I stumbled across mention of Pyro Pizza, Portland, Oregon.

They also seem to have a Facebook page.

Nostrana - Portland, Oregon

A pizza rating site (worstpizza.com) had a review of Nostrana of Portland, Oregon.