I had just gotten home from work and Travis said he wanted pizza for dinner. We first were going to go to California Pizza Kitchen because we had a coupon he had gotten a couple days before. I took a look at it and it was expired! We were given an expired coupon! Rude!... Anyway, we started naming off different pizza places and realized that we still hadn't been to the new one located in SugarHouse called Mellow Mushroom.
(1080 East 2100 South, next to Wasatch Pub).From the moment you hit the front doors with peace sign door handles, you just know its a total hippy restaurant. --------->
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First, let me give you a brief history lesson.
1974- Mellow Mushroom originally opened its doors in Atlanta, Georgia.
1976- It had become so popular, the Spring Street Mellow had to cut a hole in the wall and attached a school bus to the building for additional seating
2011- Jumping forward 29 years, the Bake Bus hit the road, serving fresh hot pizza on wheels!
Now back to 2015 , we were amazed by the decor inside. Peace signs were on the back of every chair, little innuendos were hidden everywhere, even the bar was shaped like a mushroom!
From doing a little research, I learned that each mellow mushroom is not like the other. They are all unique in their own ways.
Now to the menu! First I started off with 2 different draft beers from Moab & Park City, Ut. They were pretty delicious. Perfect way to start off my meal right?
On to the appetizers, which are called Munchies. ;) One of the items is listed as Magic Mushroom Soup. We decided we didn't want to be space cadets, so we went with the Spinach Artichoke dip. Sooo good!The rest of the menu includes everything from pizza, calzones, salads to even hoagies. |
We then ordered a 16" pizza to share between Travis and I. We often have issues deciding on the same thing when we go out to eat. Lucky for us, they allow you to do half and half! So, I got a Buffalo Chicken which includes mozzarella cheese, grilled Buffalo chicken, caramelized onions, Applewood smoked bacon with a swirl of Buffalo sauce. accompanied by blue cheese dip. It had the right proportions of everything on it, so it wasn't to spicy but still had a kick to it! Travis' half was the House Special which consist of Red sauce base with mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, sausage, ground beef,
ham, Applewood smoked bacon, mushrooms, black olives, Roma tomatoes,
green peppers and onions & topped with extra mozzarella. My brother Jeff got his own and did a half and half as well. I believe his was the Holy Shiitake Pie which has an olive oil and garlic base,
Shiitake, button and Portobello mushrooms, caramelized onions,
mozzarella and MontAmoré cheeses. Drizzled with garlic aioli and black truffle oil.
It definitely tasted as good as it looked, which was amazing! I couldn't get over how tasty their crust was. Never in my life have I been absolutely in love with the crust of a pizza. The texture is purely divine and it tastes wonderful. There is NO crust avoiding at Mellow Mushroom. Even people who discard the crust will eat THIS crust. I have been dying to make a pizza from scratch at home and thought this crust would be perfect if I knew how to recreate it. Lucky for me while doing my research for this blog entry, I found a Copy Cat Recipe!!!! So Travis, we are trying this!!!
Another thing I loved was their take out boxes. Not only does it have the cool mushroom dude on it, it also is one of the greenest pizza box in the country It has a negative carbon footprint & is made from 100% recycled material. Their brown napkins and paper cups are also made from rapidly renewable resources. And even the printing is printed with environmentally friendly soy ink. If that's not good karma, I don't know what is! This place is highly highly recommended to everyone and their mothers! GO TO MELLOW MUSHROOM NOWWWWW!
Just look for the pink neon sign in sugar house.
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