Southern Style Tomato Pie from East End Brewing Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is our pick for Pizza of the Week

This week’s Pizza Today Featured Pizza of the Week goes out to East End Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and its Southern Style Tomato Pie. The gorgeous shot of this pizza caught our eye on Instagram for its brilliant use of those summer tomato slices. It’s the simplicity of pairing the right ingredients that makes this one a winner. Photo credit can go to Andrew Marcus @actuallyandymo on Instagram

East End Brewing Company opened their own kitchen operation at its Larimer Brewpub location in 2020 serving up Sicilian style pizza with a focus on dietary inclusion. The Southern Style Tomato Pie is the creation of Larimer Brewpub Kitchen Manager Sheryl Johnston (@alienspice on INstagram. She answered our questions about this amazing pizza.

What’s on the pizza? 

SJ: Mayo or vegan Mayo sauce, Grateful Ched cheddar cheese, mozzarella, sliced tomato, scallion, basil.

Why is it special/geek out on it: 

SJ: This pizza is a recreation of a summertime treat popular in the Southern United States. Featuring vine ripened tomatoes, fresh basil, and spring onions. It highlights peak July produce! In addition to highlighting July produce and following the traditional ingredients, this pizza is special thanks to the use of “Grateful Ched”, a sharp cheddar marinated in our Gratitiude Barleywine and produced by Clover Creek Cheese (@clovercreekcheese on IG) in Williamsburg, PA. We utilize a thick, focaccia crust for our pies, made by Prohibition Pastries. Vegetarian by default, we also offer a vegan version of this pizza, and can make it with gluten free crust baked by Wild Rise Bakery (@wildrisebakery on IG), located nearby in Pittsburgh.

What’s been the customer response?

SJ: Customers are loving the amazing combination of fresh juicy tomatoes and basil with the decadent mayo and sharp cheese base, even those who were a little skeptical of mayo on pizza. These simple ingredients have combined to create bold flavors that have left customers very impressed. It’s definitely a contender for our 2024 Pizza of the Week Poll, destined to come back again as a featured pie.

Learn more about East End Brewing Company at https://www.eastendbrewing.com/  and follow on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/eastendbrewing.

The brewpub also shared this note with us: (At our Larimer Brewpub, we have been featuring a Pizza of the Week for over 3 years. Each year, we run a poll, allowing customers to vote for top 12 favorite pizzas to come back. If a pizza places on the poll two years in a row, we add it to our Pizza Hall of Fame. This pies can be viewed HERE

These pies are NOT available at our Mount Lebanon Taproom, which follows a slightly different pizza based menu)

What is Pizza Today’s Pizza of the Week?

Pizza Today’s Pizza of the Week is a new web and social series where we recognized the creativity and outstanding pizzas that are hitting pizza menus across the country. We’re exploring what’s on the pizza, how it got its name, who created it and how they came up with it. We are scouring Instagram each week and saving pizzas that are contenders for our Pizza of the Week. Then our team will select a winner each Thursday, then we’ll reach out to the winner to answer a few questions and the winner will be posted the following Tuesday in People & Pizzerias on our website.

Want to be considered for Pizza of the Week, tag us @PizzaToday and use the hashtag #ptpizzaoftheweek. We can’t wait to drool over your amazing pizzas!