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West Highland Adds Blue Pan Pizza to the Neighborhood
The ovens have been delivered and slice counters built. Up next? A liquor license. Telluride's Brown Dog Pizza owners Giles Flanagin and Jeffrey Smokevitch found a home for their new Denver location, Blue Pan Pizza, in the Highlands. The space was previously occupied...
Westword Magazine talks about our opening
Those who follow restaurant news around town may remember the fracas in the East Washington Park neighborhood in the summer of 2011, when Giles Flanagin and Jeff Smokevitch tried to open a branch of Telluride pie joint, Brown Dog Pizza, at 1001 South Gaylord Street. A...
Great American Bites: Is the USA’s best pizzeria in San Francisco? USA TODAY
The scene: In recent years, dozens of places have sprung up nationwide claiming to make authentic Neopolitan pizza under the regulations of the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana (AVPN), or Real Neapolitan Pizza Association, a group that essentially licenses pizzerias...
Pizza entrepreneurs dishing up Detroit-style pies
Every day, people come into Jeff Smokevitch's stylish Brown Dog Saloon in Telluride, Colo., look at his menu and ask, "What's Detroit pizza? It's like Chicago, right?" No, it isn't. Neither is it like New York, New Haven, California, Neapolitan or Sicilian pizza. It's...
Shortage of steel pans has Detroit-style pizza makers scrambling
Here in Detroit, we all know what it takes to make a great Detroit-style pizza: dough for the thick but airy crust, absurd amounts of cheese and ladles of rich, long-simmered sauce. But the special ingredient most people don't know about is the pan -- a certain...