Portland Pizzeria Features Nearly 100 Bottles

July 30, 2008

You just gotta love a pizzeria where you can choose among 100 different bottles of wine from Italy, France, and the Northwest, not to mention 18 wines offered by the glass along with carafe options. That’s the latest news from Ken’s Artisan Pizza in Portland, where owner Ken Forkish offers everything from Alsatian Rieslings and Rosés to several types of bubbly, Sangiovese-based wines, Brunello and local Pinot Noir.

“Our list is one of the most extensive pizzeria wine lists in the country, and reflects my personal tastes and complements our food,” explains Forkish. “Currently our list includes 17 local Pinot Noirs and we often buy the wines direct from small winemakers we know. Our wines are also priced to sell with even the more expensive wines priced just over retail and accessible to the general public.”

Open since 2006, Ken’s Artisan Pizza (an offshoot of Ken’s Artisan Bakery & Cafe) put itself on the map thanks to chef and co-founder Alan Maniscalco’s seasonal cuisine cooked in the restaurant’s wood-fired oven—from individual pizzas topped with seasonal ingredients to the roasted vegetable plate that changes with the season’s farm-fresh offerings to the house-made charcuterie. Ken’s Artisan Pizzeria has been featured nationally in Bon Appetit and The New York Times and was chosen as one of the “15 Restaurants Changing the Way We Eat” in the November 2006 issue of Portland Monthly and one of the “Top 10 Restaurants in Portland” in the November 2007 issue of Portland Monthly.

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