Belltown Pizza, downtown Seattle - Review #14

Top of the morning to everyone!  This week BJ, Greg and I ventured back to a restaurant (if you can call it that!) that we had previously blogged about in Review #2, The Ice House Bar, out on highway 51 east of Stillwater.  It still had it's fantastic ambiance of sitting around a smoke filled bar being served day old coffee by Bob, and some great people watching (and listening), but the food was about the same as before and there wasn't very much to expand on from the previous blog.  Plus it would be tough to top the stories we heard the first time about the local strippers!

Instead, I decided to write about a place I went for breakfast one Sunday morning when I was in Seattle for the ACVP conference a little under two months ago.  I have two great friends in Seattle, Laura and Cam, and Cam is a fantastic bartender who on Sunday mornings works at Belltown Pizza on 1st street in the Belltown section of downtown Seattle.  It was in the middle of football season and my 49ers (soon to be Super Bowl Champions!) were going to be on TV that Sunday morning so Cam told me to come down and join the regulars who come in every Sunday morning to watch the games.

The amazing pizza based breakfast menu!

 Now I know that pizza may seem like an odd thing to most people to have as a breakfast item, but these aren't your usual pizzas. These pizzas are different and quite amazing, and when joined by a fantastic freshly squeezed grapefruit and vodka cocktail, life just doesn't get any better!!

The Lombardi!

The names of the pizzas are named after football players, adding the perfect final touch and there is quite the variety. On that cold drizzly Sunday morning I had The Lombardi which is made with egg, italian sausage, green peppers, red onions, parmesan cheese and the house red sauce.  The 9 inch pizza is perfect if you're going to sit there for an entire 3 hours and watch a game, and the pizza was absolutely delicious!  I had never even thought about putting egg on a pizza, but I know believe it is one of the most fantastic creations ever invented. The blend of spice provided by the italian sausage blended with the egg and pepper was to die for while still maintaining that traditional pizza taste. It was a complete change from the typical Saturday morning breakfasts BJ and I usually have.

And overall.......

Food: 5 of 5 pancakes  (maybe pizzas in this case)
Cost: $$$ (out of 5 - more dollar signs = more expensive)
Overall: 5 of 5 cups of coffee

Maybe I'm rating it so highly because of it's uniqueness compared to what we typically have for breakfast, but this really was a first and one of a kind for me.  Combining the food with the cocktail, which would never happen in Oklahoma, with great company, football and ambiance made this a one of a kind and my first rating of 5 out of 5.  Although it was a bit more expensive than the typical breakfast, it was in Seattle rather than red dirt Oklahoma, and was without a doubt worth every penny!  If you are ever in Seattle on a Sunday, especially during football season it is definitely worth stopping in for a slice and say hi to Cam!

When I move back to Cali this coming summer I will definitely miss my Saturday morning breakfasts with BJ and seeing the little towns of Oklahoma, but I'm also looking forward to the diversity of restaurants that living in the suburban west coast offers that I think will really allow for some great blogs!  And yes, the blog will be continuing on at that point California style!

Until next time, keep on eating breakfast!

Freshly squeezed grapefruit and vodka cocktail!

The surrounding tv's and some of the regulars.