Spokane Slice Life
Local Spokane pizza culture and neighborhoods
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Perry Pizza in Spokane: A Guide to the Perry District
Looking for South Perry Pizza? Here's who we are, who we aren't, and where to find the place you meant.
Searching for South Perry pizza in Spokane? What the Perry District is, what we are, what we aren't, and how to find the restaurant you're looking for.
What Spokane Grows, and When It Lands on a Pizza
155 frost-free days, four market days a week, and a menu that has to keep up.
Spokane's growing season runs about 155 days. What the Inland Northwest produces month by month, the market days behind it, and what reaches a pizza.
Pizza Basics: The Four Things That Decide Whether It's Good
Dough, heat, restraint, and the fifteen minutes after it comes out.
What actually makes pizza good: hydration and fermentation, why heat from underneath matters most, and how Spokane's dry air changes your dough.
Why We Keep It Small
Enough time to make every pizza properly, for people we mostly know by name.
We cap the night on purpose. Staying small buys the time to make each pizza properly, and keeps the whole thing personal for the neighbors we cook for.
Pizza on Spokane's South Hill
Ninety acres of park, hundred-year-old trees, and a neighborhood built for walking to dinner.
The South Hill isn't one neighborhood but several, from Cannon Hill to Comstock to Rockwood. What the area is like, and why it suits a small pizza kitchen.
Is There Such a Thing as Spokane-Style Pizza?
No codified style. A real set of local conditions that shape the dough anyway.
Spokane has no codified pizza style like New York or Detroit. What it has is a sixty-year scene and summer air dry enough to change how dough behaves.