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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — “When you’re putting out the affection of beer we are, you can’t aloof accomplish a approved pizza to brace with it,” Justin Stermin said as he affective addition hunk of chef to duke bung assimilate his table and basic with booze and toppings afore hitting the bean oven.
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Chalkboard cafe, Gordon - Restaurant Reviews, Phone Number ... | chalkboard cafe gordonStermin is the controlling chef at The Mitten Brewing Company, one of the finalists in the chase for Michigan’s Best Pizza.
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Stermin has backward active back the brewery opened aloof added than a year ago.
“We had planned for an boilerplate of 30 pizzas a day, but we do way added than that,” he said. “We hit amateur digits on the weekends on a approved basis. Pizza and beer go absolutely acceptable together.”
That bond is added than a cliché back some of the best ability beer in the breadth is commutual with Stermin's artisan pizzas.
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Chalkboard cafe - Home | Facebook | chalkboard cafe gordonIt starts with the dough. Stermin uses a two-day algid beverage action on the chef he creates with two types of flour.
“The band shouldn’t be there to aloof ‘hold the toppings,’” he said. “It’s about the acidity and texture. Chris (Andrus) and Max (Trierweiler – co-owners of the brewery) charge accept sampled their weight in pizzas aggravating to acquisition the appropriate contour of flavors to shoot for. We feel we’ve got a compound that delivers appearance in its flavor.”
Stermin adds The Mitten’s house-made booze and beginning toppings.
Beyond the acceptable pepperoni, cheese and absolute pizzas, Stermin offers some artistic card choices such as the Westerdog (a pizza that pays admiration to Yesterdog’s hot dogs), the Thai Cobb (with peanut sauce, baptize chestnuts and carrots) and The Heater with habanero sauce, Andouille sausage, blooming peppers and assistant peppers.
Toppings are currently supplied by Gordon Food Services, but Stermin said he affairs to assignment with Doorganics, West Michigan Farm Link, The Cheese Lady to antecedent added capacity locally.
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Chicken schintzel burger at Chalkboard cafe - Picture of ... | chalkboard cafe gordonThe brewery additionally offers any pizza as vegetarian, vegan or gluten free. Stermin is a vegetarian.
“Whether its sausage, pepperoni, chorizo, alike the hot dogs, I can about-face any of our pizzas into a vegetarian one,” Stermin said.
I ordered up two slices of pepperoni (you can adjustment by the allotment at lunch) and listened to a adolescent booth babble about the specialty pizza he had ordered.
“It was a mac and cheese pizza complete with bacon and jalapeños. It was so good,” he said.
I glanced up at a chalkboard on the restaurant’s bank to see that this week’s appropriate was a Michigan Apple Barbecue Pizza with apples, sausage, dupe cheese, mozzarella, red onion and Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce. I admired it was accessible by the slice, but don’t let that booty annihilation abroad from the abominable pepperoni slices I enjoyed for lunch.
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Chalkboard cafe - Picture of Chalkboard cafe, Gordon - TripAdvisor | chalkboard cafe gordonStatewide ball anchorman John Gonzalez will appointment The Mitten from apex to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16, in his chase for Michigan's Best Pizza. The accessible is arrive to appear appearance support. Chase Gonzo's campaign at mlive.com/michigansbest or via amusing media at #mibest and #mipizza.
Stermin is accessible for his visit.
“I’m alive on a new conception for back Gonzo comes to appointment this Saturday complete with turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberries," he said.
Todd Chance is the West Michigan Ball Concierge for MLive/Grand Rapids Press. Email him at tchance@mlive.com or chase him on Facebook , Twitter, Google Plus
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