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The Evolution of Mall Pizza, Via Elemental

The creators of Japanese-made-accessible Blue C Sushi and Boom Noodle have given us the crowd-pleasing Elemental, a slammed, shiny joint bringing fire-bubbled, thin-but-pillowy-crusted pizza to the U Village hordes. We’d rather the crusts had bit more oil, but we do like that pies this ambitious have come to the heart of familyville—check the pizza tossers—and […]

The creators of Japanese-made-accessible Blue C Sushi and Boom Noodle have given us the crowd-pleasing Elemental, a slammed, shiny joint bringing fire-bubbled, thin-but-pillowy-crusted pizza to the U Village hordes. We’d rather the crusts had bit more oil, but we do like that pies this ambitious have come to the heart of familyville—check the pizza tossers—and we really like the caprese salads, the BBQ-pulled-pork pie, and the brightly bitter sausage-rapini topping.

 


Elemental Wood Fired Pizza
2630 NE University Village St, University Village, 206-524-4930; elementalpizza.com $$$


Published: April 2013

Published in the Best Bars Right Now issue of Seattle Met.











Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Senior Writer Seattle native Kathryn Robinson, award-winning restaurant critic and senior writer at Seattle Met, has been anonymously reviewing restaurants for over 30 years—first as editor of the Best Places guidebook series, then as staff critic at Seattle Weekly and contributing critic at The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine.  Midcareer she spent a year-long sabbatical studying comparative religion as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she had been an undergrad 10 years earlier, gaining a knowledge base she now calls upon for her monthly “Back Fence” column on our collective urban existence and the meaning it holds for our personal lives. In her off hours she is a partner and a parent—which means she has no off hours.