Apizza Scholls

We finally made it to Apizza Scholls to see what all the fuss is about. We tried to go there a few times before and it has been closed or the line has been out the door. We got there around 7:30 p.m. on a Friday night, and the wait was 45 minutes. I think if we had come a little later we could have cut that in half, but I have heard of people coming at opening time and waiting for hours.

The menu is pretty simple, they have pizza, salad and a few antipasti. We started with the Winter Salad, which had greens, pears, pecans and blue cheese crumbles, which was awesome. We were torn on which pizza to order. There are several good options, plus you can build your own. We ended up getting half Pig and Pineapple and half Apizza Amore - pecorino, romano, fresh garlic, basil and hot capicollo (cured pork shoulder). The pizza was huge, and we were only able to eat half of it. Overall it was very tasty, the only problem was too much garlic on the the Amore side. So, now to the question, how did it stack up against other pizzas in Portland? At about $25 a pie, I would say it is better than Pizzicato, but not as good as the pizza at Nostrana Cafe. It is very good pizza and worth waiting for (not two hours, but 45 minutes). You can get a pitcher of Anchor Steam beer and think about the desert you will get next door at Ja Civas after the pizza.

Apizza Scholls
4741 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97215
(503) 233-1286