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Portland's pizza is wood-fired and Pacific Northwest in spirit: blistered crust from a 480°C oven, seasonal toppings (chanterelles in autumn, asparagus in spring), house-made mozzarella, local pork sausage.
Portland's pizza identity took shape in the early 2000s as Apizza Scholls (Brian Spangler, opened 2005) built a Neapolitan-meets-New-Haven thin-crust template using Pacific Northwest-milled flour and a 24-hour cold ferment. Ken Forkish (Ken's Artisan Pizza, opened 2006) refined the wood-fired approach with seasonal Oregon toppings. Lovely's Fifty Fifty in North Mississippi runs a farm-driven Northwest version (the dish lineup changes weekly with what the city's farms bring in). The Portland pizza scene is regularly cited (Eater, Pizza Today, Bon Appetit) as the strongest in the Pacific Northwest.
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Where to eat Pacific Northwest wood-fired pizza in Portland: the editor picks
Guided tour · 2 hours
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