![]() ![]() Green olives and hot salami are bold in flavor, but the star of the pizza show was the house made fennel sausage, which brought a balance to the other salty ingredients. The flavorful crust was chewy and a bit crunchy and handled the ingredients with aplomb. We ordered them with a side of their savory and zesty marinara.Īs for our entree, we selected the 12" fennel sausage, hot salami, onion and cracked green olives pizza. They were served with a surprise dollop of goat cheese. The mushrooms were packed with tangy, garlicky flavor. The roasted vegetables were mighty in flavor. "Huzzah!" thought I, "This plan is going splendidly."Īfter looking over the menu, recalling recommendations from friends, Heavy Table, and a couple other reviews, we settled on a starter of roasted vegetables. When we arrived at 1:30pm on a Monday, there were two tables of couples enjoying pizza, and a couple of people at the bar. We'd heard that the wait can be long at Black Sheep, so we thought a weekday lunch would be the best option. It makes me wonder if they're aware of Valli dell'Etna Olive Oil, a family-run olive oil business with distribution in Minneapolis? ![]() But I can buy my olive oil from a local company as opposed to a multinational company like US Foodservice or Sysco.That's the kind of philosophy I like to support. I’m not going to get olive oil from Minnesota. Sometimes it gets overlooked how critical that piece is, in the buy-local movement. Black Sheep founder Jordan Smith was quoted in a piece by Heavy Table: “I try to buy local ingredients where it’s applicable, and do business with local vendors so that the dollars stay in our local economy. They're making their sausage and meatballs in house. Gerg was all for that, as a pizza lover.īlack Sheep makes their pizza in a coal-fired oven, and they're burning Anthracite coal, which burns relatively cleanly with little soot, making it ideal for their purpose. We finally had a weekday off in early April, and the first thought that crossed my mind (besides sleeping in) was having lunch at Black Sheep Pizza. ![]()
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