Olive Pizza

Olive Pizza is a new portable wood-fired pizza operation started by Elizabeth Vossen. As of last week, they started serving Saturdays at the Midtown Farmers' Market on Lake Street near the Hiawatha Light Rail.

A selection of about four pizzas are made to order by a small crew that went counterclockwise around the tent. My order was taken, then the person to her left made the pizza, then in the back it was put in the oven and about five minutes later a man to his left cut my pizza directly on the peel and slid of off onto a plate.

I ordered the pesto and tomato pizza which ingredient-wise isn't dissimilar to an Italian-style pizza margherita but a bit smaller. The ingredients were notably fresh even before biting in. Tasting this pizza is divine: the mozzarella and tomato were quite tasty and the pesto was balanced well -- I'm used to a "pesto pizza" having too much pesto but this was spot on. The crust was light although not terribly notable on its own. Overall a refreshing and surprisingly filling lunch. Despite its smaller size, I preferred sharing a a slice (one sixth) of it to a friend -- splitting one of these would serve as a fantastic Farmers' Market snack.

Olive Pizza is based in Shokopee and it looks like they're planning on showing up at more places than the Midtown Farmers' Market. They have a good thing going on here and if today's pizza was from their second full day of operation, I can't wait to see how much better their already quite good pizza will become. Recommended.

For many more photos and another, more detailed take on Olive Pizza, check out Martha and Tom's post from a visit last week on their first day.

Olive Pizza
Saturdays at the Midtown Farmers Market
Lake St E & 22nd Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55407
952-221-6206