Deep Dish & Thin Crust.

CAF and I were enough to try District of Pi tonight, before the official opening tomorrow (August 31).

“The District eatery, like its St. Louis siblings, focuses on sustainability and minimizing its carbon
footprint. The buildout maximizes the use of reclaimed materials, both from the original space and others in the area. The entire wine list is also green, consisting of organic, bio-dynamical and other wines by sustainable wine-makers.”

Spicy Cucumbers.

What did we think?

I really like their house beer (a Steam style beer), which is made specifically for them.  The bartender (Kate who is awesome) made CAF a great nonalcoholic combination of orange juice and ginger beer.

We had both a thin crust pizza with pesto sauce, red onion, and chicken and a deep dish pizza with tomato sauce, eggplant red onion, and sausage.  Both were good but keep in mind that the deep dish is a cornbread-like crust and not a Chicago-style crust.  They were not served hot enough but that may have had to do with managing a full restaurant on a preview night where everyone basically was seated at once.

We had both spicy cucumbers and wings as appetizers.  The spicy cucumbers are actually a spicy fresh-made pickle were one of the best dishes we tried that evening.  The wings had an awesome spice rub but were rubbery instead of crispy; I understand that they were baked but there are ways to do it so that you don’t get your mouth full of rubbery skin.

The apple pie uses the same cornbread crust as the apple pie, and while we liked the filling, the apples could have been cooked more.  You get 2 scoops of ice cream on a piece of pie; I really like their vanilla ice cream.

We will definitely try Pi again.  Next time we will try the garlic bread, which we hear is very good.

-JAY

Disclaimer: Something to this effect is stated in our “About” section, but (as sometimes happens), we received freebies.  That said,  our words are our own.

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