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Frontier Pies
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Screw Flanders.
Showing posts with label Pizza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pizza. Show all posts
27.6.11
Welcome to the Food Blog!
Here in this blog I will introduce you to the surprising variety of food available in Rexburg, Idaho. Being a relatively small town, with relatively not a lot to do, and yet pressure to go on dates anyway, I decided it would be fitting to analyze the many local eateries and help you make important decisions such as "Where do I want to eat today?" or "What restaurant would be good tonight?" or "Where so I take my date to dinner?" Therefore, check out the reviews (written by an amateur connoisseur) and make your decisions accordingly. Since some of the restaurants are major chains that you can find all over the place, I chose to ignore those and focus on the smaller chains and local gems. for you convenience I will list what restaurants were reviewed in what month. You can also follow them as links. You can also also follow the labels to find specifics such as desserts, burger joints, or the coveted Top 10. (The labels are at the bottom)
June:
June:
24.6.11
5 Buck Pizza
On Main Street near Fongs and Porters Crafts
5 Buck pizza offers a variety of pizzas for five dollars. Unlike Little Caesar’s, which also offers five dollar pizzas, your variety at 5 Buck pizza is much larger. They have a long list of possible toppings, and the amount you can put on your pizza for five dollars is dependent on the size of the pizza. Smaller pizzas mean more toppings. If you want larger pizzas with more toppings, or gourmet pizzas, they have a variety of those as well, they just cost more. Of note is the Bigfoot, with its subsequent Bigfoot Challenge. While a normal large is 14 inches, the Bigfoot is 20 inches. The challenge is to eat the whole thing in an hour. You can even choose the toppings. I went with pepperoni. I’m a sucker for the classics. The hour started off strong – I ate half the pizza in 20 minutes (hint to future contenders – wait before you start until it cools off). I got two more slices down (there are eight) without a problem, and then all the sudden I began to lose. The last half hour was brutal. I soldiered on and ate another slice. I even got a couple of bites into the last piece – number 8. Then my time ran out. I was borderline comatose for the next four hours. I was greatly disappointed in myself, and felt the time had come to unofficially retire from professional amateur binge eating. On that day, June 10, 2011, in Rexburg, Idaho food won.
8.6.11
Craigo’s (The Pizza Pie Café)
On 2nd East, halfway to Wal-Mart
From what I understand, Craigo’s changed their name to Pizza Pie Café so that they could expand into Utah and they didn’t have rights to the Craigo’s name. Part of me feels like they sold out – they were our establishment (up yours Provo) but now they moved south into Draper, Logan, and *mumbling curses* Provo. However, I will minimalize my purist bias for the sake of the general public. Craigo’s (As I insist on calling it) is every kid’s dream. A pizza buffet. Kids like pizza. Kids like a lot of pizza. Craigo’s gives them just that, plus salad and pasta. It’s not exactly cheap, but your 7ish dollars go far.
There are many flavors of pizza to choose from. You have your traditional pepperoni and Hawaiian, your not as traditional pepperoni and sausage, and then your nontraditional potato pizza and my personal (really everybody’s personal) favorite, the Buffalo Chicken pizza. The first time I had it, it tasted a bit like Orange chicken, and I was happy. Now that I know the name, it tastes like buffalo chicken, but I’m still happy. I have aggressively stood in line waiting for the buffalo chicken pizza to come out. It’s that good. Dang good in fact.
Their salad and pasta are also good. Especially the sauces used for the pasta. I like to mix their marinara with their spicy one, with just a smidge of alfredo sauce. The salad is salad – it’s there just so your pizza passes through with minimal discomfort. I won’t waste precious pizza talking space on salad.
The other thing that makes Craigo’s so unique is their dessert selection. They have almost as much variety of dessert pizza as they do real pizza. Oreo, brown sugar, and raspberry are my favorites. They also have apple and I believe a s’more, but that might be a bold face lie. It might have been another oreo. They also have (at extra cost) the cookie monster. It’s a pizza size cookie, with ice cream, whip cream, and chocolate sauce on it as though it was a pizza, or a pie. Or a pizza pie… It’s good, and worth eating once, but I don’t normally go to the extra expense when I can eat Oreo pizza on the original $7. Always worth a visit. Just promise to never visit the Utah establishments.
Idamont Café
Located inside the Craze – near the Cocoa Bean
Hidden inside of the Craze Fun Zone is the cheapest eatery in Rexburg. I normally try to avoid writing about food served at an entertainment establishment (I don’t plan on reviewing the food at Fat Cats for example), but the Idamont is nearly unknown and has generated interest. A friend of mine once brought it up because she saw the entrance to the café (specifically labeled as the Idamont) and thought it was a delightful looking bohemian eatery nestled in the middle of everything. It’s nestled, but it really isn’t that Boho. That’s what the cool kids call Bohemian. Boho Rap is a great song by Queen, according to the cool kids. But I digress.
Everything on the menu is cheap – I want to say less than $5. It’s also the only place I know that has PB&J sandwiches on the menu. Also hot dogs. The most fun item on the menu is the Dam burger, or the even more ambitious Double Dam. My favorite item is their pizza. However, you get what you paid for. The food is basically freezer food thawed out and microwaved. They wanted to feed college kids on a college budget, so they are doing it with college food. It’s the same stuff I would make, though sometimes I don’t feel up to the effort and have an extra $3 laying around. Not often, but sometimes. I don’t fault the Idamont either – their existence is mostly because of the mini golf and laser tag (excellent winter dates), and the food is just a perk. It makes for a cheap date, especially if you already have an established relationship and she won’t leave you just because you’re “frugal”. Not a first date for sure (dinner wise at least – the mini golf is cool). You can really seem like a BYU-I insider when you eat at the Idamont. There are other restaurants for Rexburgers (citizens of Rexburg) only, but none of them will go to the Idamont – just the poor students. It’s worth a visit.
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