Friday the 13th is your lucky day, Boise. A new local pizzeria opens with specials.
Are you one of those people who can’t ever get enough pizza? (Based on the number of pizzerias in this town, that appears to be all of us.)
Then you’re in luck Friday — yep, Friday the 13th.
Alpine Pizza, a west Boise restaurant specializing in wood-fired pies, will open at 4 p.m. at 7330 W. State St. Also a beer, wine and kombucha destination, it’s taken over the space occupied by PizzalChik for years at State Street and Gary Lane.
Alpine serves brick-oven-blistered pies made with sourdough crust. Specialty pizzas on the menu include elk and venison sausage varieties topped with wild mushrooms (seasonal morels), vegetables and red sauce. Other versions range from barbecue pulled pork to vegetarian and gluten-free.
You can order online, and food is available for dine-in, takeout and delivery. Renovations inside the restaurant include a bar with a 16-foot top made from a slab of white oak, first-time restaurant owner Griffin Daudt said in a phone interview last month.
Although Daudt hopes to push the ingredient envelope with his own style, the Wild Bull pizza will feel familiar to PizzalChik customers. It’s got elk sausage, wild mushrooms (seasonal morels), red sauce, a three-cheese blend, white onion, black olive, blue cheese and jalapenos. Elk sausage and wild mushrooms were the key ingredients on PizzalChik’s beloved Wild Forest Mist pie, which even got praise from Food Network celebrity Guy Fieri.
Today’s soft opening includes specials on 14-inch pizzas. Treat yourself to that Wild Bull for $18.99. Or grab a Big Pine for $13.99 with a three-cheese blend, beef sausage, pepperoni, red onion, green pepper and red sauce. Or snag a traditional pepperoni pizza for $10.
You’ll also find draft beer for $4 from 4 to 9 p.m., along with in-store deals on pitchers and cans of local beer.
Alpine has done coupons on the back of Albertsons grocery receipts, too, for $10 off two large pizzas, $5 off two mediums and $4 off one large.
Want more information? Check out Alpine Pizza on Facebook.
This story was originally published November 13, 2020 at 12:00 AM.