Flavors of Summer

Well we finally saw some nice weather over the holiday weekend, maybe summer actually is on its way. With the change in the weather we are also shifting specials. The Fire Roasted Pizzas will be phased out. I apologize to those who really enjoyed those pizzas (I know I did) but they were a limited time offering and we have used up all the supply of the ingredients. If you miss them, leave some feedback and I’ll pass it along, I’d like to see them back in the future.

Moving on, we are running our new “Flavors of Summer” promotion. You can have your choice of our Maui Zaui or Backyard BBQ Chicken pizza for just $15 for a large size. So stop in and order up your favorite flavor or summer, can’t decide which, go ahead and get one of each.

Also one other note, we finally brought take-and-bake up to Bellingham. So if you want some Round Table Pizza but don’t want to come back into town around dinner time, swing by and grab a take-and-bake on your way home from work, then you can have Round Table straight from your oven when dinner time rolls around.

Beer and Pizza Pairing (July 2nd 2:00pm-7:00pm)

If you are a beer enthusiast (like me) I don’t know if there is a better area in the world to be living than the Pacific Northwest. The craft beer industry has exploded up here and we are really lucky to have so many great breweries to choose from. I feel like we do a pretty good job at both our stores of keeping a great rotating selection of amazing beers on tap. And I think the perfect compliment to an excellent beer is an excellent pizza!

That is why we are going to host our first Beer and Pizza Pairing event at our Bellingham store Saturday, July 2nd 2:00pm-7:00pm. The cost will be just $10 and will include several samples of beer as well as samples of some of our best specialty pizzas (21+ year olds only of course).

Hopefully if these events prove popular we can make them a regular event. If we do it will mean myself and the management team will have to keep trying as many beers as possible to make sure we can continue to feature new and exciting beers, but it’s a sacrifice we are willing to make. Here are the beers that will be featured this Saturday:

Dottie Seattle Lager – Emerald City Beer: Emerald City Beer is in the old Rainier building in Seattle and brews their Dottie Seattle Lager using almost exclusively, ingredients sourced from Washington State.

Interurban India Pale Ale – Fremont Brewing Company: From sourcing their ingredients to using energy and water efficient brewing methods, Fremont Brewing focuses on sustainability, as well as making great beer of course. Their Interurban India Pale Ale is named after Fremont’s most famous outdoor sculpture, Waiting for the Interurban, Interurban India Pale Ale offers the adventurous beer lover a warm embrace of roasted pale malt swirled with a hand-selected blend of flavor malts and filled with the rich spice of Chinook, Centennial and Amarillo hops.

Mens Room Original Red - Elysian Fields: Amber in color with a light hop aroma and toasty malt finish. The Mens Room Original Red is brewed by Elysian for the radio program The Mens Room on 99.9 KISW. The great thing about this beer (besides being yummy!) is that Elysian and The Mens Room donate a portion of the proceeds to The Fisher House which helps out our veterans. They have raised $94,000 for the Fisher House so far and every time you drink a Mens Room Red you are helping raise even more money to help support our Vets.

So come on in this Saturday to try all three of these great beers. If you can’t make it this Saturday these beers are also on tap. But make sure you come in soon because our selection is constantly rotating so you don’t want to miss your chance to try these great beers, before they are rotated out for whatever the next great beer we stumble upon is.

Wine Tasting May 6th 3:00pm-6:00pm in Bellingham

Brandon and Becky (our manager duo at the Bellingham store) have been bringing in a nice supply of quality local wines into the store lately. While not as traditional as the beer and pizza paring, wine actually goes great with our pizza and Brandon and Becky want to prove it.

On Friday May 6th from 3:00pm-6:00pm they will be hosting a wine tasting event. We will be sampling 5 different wines with slices of some of our popular specialty pizzas. It is only $10 to participate in the tasting and there will be some other special offers on pizza and wine throughout the night. So stop by after work or come in for dinner and sample some great northwest wines pared with some of our best pizzas.

Beer

I didn’t think much else was needed in the title post to get your attention, but we have some cool beer related things going on. First in Bellingham they now have a “local beer night.” It happens every Tuesday and on that day you can get any beer brewed in either Skagit or Whatcom county for a discount. Tonight I know they have Boundary Bay’s Belgium Pale on tap and in the coming weeks you can look for not only Boundary Bay but other local brews being featured at our Bellingham location. Tuesday night prices are $3 a pint or $10 a pitcher for local brews, but the beers are available any night of the week if you can’t make it on Tuesday.
At our Mount Vernon store (which also carries a great selection of beer) we put The Mens Room Original Red on tap today. This beer is made by Elysian Brewing in conjunction with the radio program ‘The Mens Room’ on 99.9 KISW. The neat thing about this beer, apart from being delicious, is that a portion of the net proceeds from every Mens Room Original Red sold goes to helping support the families of our military vets through the VA Puget Sound Fisher House and Ft. Lewis Fisher House. The only thing better than enjoying a beer is enjoying a beer for a good cause!
Also at Mount Vernon we recently started carrying North Sound Brewing’s Hop Chops IPA, brewed here in Mount Vernon. It is one of my favorite beers that we have on tap right now. So you can come on down and try a Hop Chops, or if you want to sample all of North Sounds beers head to their tasting room and we can deliver some pizza out there if you get hungry.
Cheers!

I assure you, we’re open!

Thanks to a strange sequence of events, I have been fielding a lot of “are you guys open?” phone calls. First there was this news about corporate filing for bankruptcy, then thanks to a mix-up with phone providers our phone system was disconnected for several hours last Sunday, then Snowmaggedon ’11 hit.
So as I was down at our Mount Vernon store shoveling snow, thinking to myself “I’m not even suppose to be here today” I realized I should probably spread the word that it’s business as usual for us. Again I want to reiterate that we are independently owned and operated and we are not a part of the bankruptcy filing.
If you tried to call our Mount Vernon store last Sunday and got a “this number has been disconnected” message, it was just a mix up with the phone company. Our phone number is back up and working and remains the same (424-7979). We are switching providers on Monday so there might be brief outrages, but they are suppose to have that all wrapped up before 11:00am. Although the mix-up last Sunday doesn’t inspire confidence… so if you try to call on Monday and can’t get through, try again in a few minutes or just order online, we will be there.
Lastly, we try our best to remain open despite the weather. While we may limit our delivery areas and/or close down a little early for the safety of our employees, for the most part we try to operate normally even during inclement weather. It’s going to take more than a mere 18″ of snow to slow us down!
So if this cold weather has got you shivering, we will be happy to warm you up with our new Fire-Roasted Pizzas. Come on down and try one, they are on special. If you are still snowed in, we will try our best to bring one to you.

Where’s the Beef (pt2), Bankruptcy and Fire Roasted Goodness.

Well that didn’t last long.  As soon as we find a suitable beef topping, it gets discontinued by our distributor so we can no longer obtain it.  The search will have to continue I suppose.  Last I checked the restaurants still had a small supply, so if you liked it, get it while you can.

In other news, sandwiched in between the government fighting on how much or how little to cut from the budget and Tanya Harding’s pregnancy, you might have heard a blurb about Round Table Pizza filing for bankruptcy.  Here is a link to an article with the official press release from Round Table, but I’ll highlight the important part:

“This action will not impact Round Table’s 148 franchisees that operate 355 independently owned Round Table Pizza restaurants on the West Coast. Round Table Pizza, Inc. said that it will close some unprofitable, company-owned restaurants but stressed that most of its company-owned locations and all of its franchised locations will remain open, with minimal impact on consumers.”

We are not going out of business and closing our doors.  This action only affects company-owned stores (mainly concentrated in California) and does not affect independently owned stores such as ours (all the Round Table Pizza’s in Washington are independently owned and operated).  While, like everyone else, we have been feeling the pinch of this economy, it will be business as usual for us.  We are doing fine.  You don’t have to worry about your favorite pizza going away.

In other news, we have a new line of pizzas out.  They are called the “Fire Roasted Pizzas” and feature a creamy Chipotle sauce.  For $12 you can get a large Fire-Roasted Veggie which includes roasted onions and peppers, roasted tomatoes and green onions, for $14 you can get the Fire-Roasted Pepperoni or Fire-Roasted Chicken and Bacon pizzas.  They include all the toppings listed on the veggie plus your choice of (yup, you guessed it) either pepperoni or chicken and bacon.  I have personally tried the new pizzas and the new creamy chipotle sauce is very good, so come down and give it a try.  We also have new Chipotle-Cheddar Twists as well which feature the creamy chipotle sauce if you want to try the new sauce, but just can’t stop ordering your favorite Round Table Pizza, add some Chipotle-Cheddar Twists to your order.

One other bit of news.  Our manager in Bellingham has been working with our alcohol distributors to bring in a whole bunch of new wines, featuring many good northwest bottles.  We haven’t worked out the details yet, but we are thinking of hosting a wine-tasting event, where you will have the opportunity to sample some of these new wines paired with our gourmet pizzas.  So keep an eye on our blog, or better yet, like us on Facebook so you don’t miss the announcement!

Bellingham now running Facebook Deal

Just a quick update, you can now also get a 25% discount by checking in with Facebook Places in Bellingham.  Took Facebook a bit longer to get this set up, but it’s running there now as well.