MrToadsWildRide
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So I had the opportunity to eat at Blaze, the new pizza place in Disney Springs.
It's kind of like a pizza version of Chipotle. Pick your dough (standard, high-rise and gluten/taste bad), choose your toppings, cook (really fast) and eat. While the two dough options cost more (how can you charge more for less gluten?) there are no added charges for toppings.
That's right. No extra charge for toppings.
Their build your own pizza: $9.65
Build your own cheese pizza: $9.65
Build you own bacon, meatball, chicken, sausage, pepperoni, salami, ham, artichoke, arugula, banana peppers, bell peppers, tomatoes, garlic, basil, jalapeño, mushrooms, olives, pineapple, onions, red peppers, sautéed onion, spinach, zucchini, goat cheese, gorgonzola, mozzarella, oval-ini mozzarella, parmesan, ricotta, vegan cheese, red sauce, spicy red sauce, white sauce, garlic pesto, pesto drizzle, bbq drizzle, olive oil and ranch: $9.65
At least, that's what the guy said who was showing us the menu. No extra charge for your toppings. I was tempted to accept his challenge and make them pile it all on.
Instead, I went with 1/4 sausage, 1/4 pepperoni, 1/2 mushroom and peppers with 1/2 pesto added to the meat side and 1/2 arugula added to the non-meat side, after cooking. My attempt at sampling a variety of toppings, while testing their $9.65 pricing policy.
All that was $9.65! So if there is a limit, I didn't reach it. Yet.
The toughest part of the build your own experience was explaining the difference between 1/2 and 1/4 to the topping person. (thanks Orlando public schools)
I ask myself, "How is this possible? No charge for toppings? They'll never make any money."
Then you find out lemonade and bottle beer is $3.00, draft beer is $7.00 and wine is $8.00. It's kind of like the printer business. "Here's your free printer. Ink is $99.95 but it will only last for 10 pages. See you soon."
I'm not sure how good their wine is. The Cast Member told us the "wine machine" was broken. Their wine, the most expensive beverage, comes out of a machine? Maybe they should call it draft wine? Adding the word draft to beer that comes out of a bottle means you can charge twice as much. And no, they didn't have any wine (for less money) that came out of a bottle.
We settled for a Corona. However, two Cast Members said they didn't have Corona, while one said they did. As they argued this point, my wife grabbed one out of the cooler, where they didn't (or did) have them.
Blaze is a fast-fired pizza place, so it cooks in 180 seconds. Sadly, I didn't notice if they were cooking it via wood or coal fire. (I was too busy repeating over and over how they don't charge for toppings) Gas alone is not that hot, so I'm assuming it was not gas. It cooked fast, it was hot and the crust was toasted.
Overall, the pizza, with all the variants we tried on one pizza was pretty good. Though I eat quite a variety of pizza's at a variety of prices and am usually happy. Cause, pizza. The pepperoni was thin and tasty, but that's sort of hard to mess up. The sausage was okay. The arugula was fresh and tasty as well. (if you like the taste of lawn)
Blaze is not like Via Napoli, in Epcot. The dough alone is very different. No double 00 Caputo flour, hand needed and hand stretched, never tossed. (at least, it's not supposed to be when you have a VPN cert) Blaze uses (keep your hands, arms, legs, hair and clothing clear at all times) dough pressing machines.
It's also not like a coal fired place like Anthony's Coal Fire Pizza, over in Dr. Orlando Phillips. I'd say Blaze's pizza is somewhere between Anthony's and CPK. Not as good as Anthony's, but better than CPK. It's actually like a cheaper MOD Pizza, if you're familiar with that chain. (they charge for toppings)
If you're a pizza snob (and it's okay to be one) and you have strong feelings about how a pizza should look and taste, then you should try Blaze for yourself and then tell everyone how this is not real pizza. (whatever)
The one downside were the huge ceiling fans. They looked like something that was used to fly that gigantic aircraft carrier-in-the-sky thing from The Avengers. I'm surprised the roof didn't fly away. It looks like you could toss stuff up into the razor sharp, spinning 747 wings and create instant shredded compost. The wind was so strong, you could not keep a napkin on the table. No surprise, we took the last three napkins in the napkin holder. The rest were probably against the back wall.
I mentioned it to a Cast Member on our way out. He said, "The wind keeps things off your food." I have to admit, he was right. Sitting in the booth, holding down my napkin and my hair, I noticed (honest truth) a fly on the floor, hanging on for dear life. He was like, "Hey man, drop a fly some crust?" I tried, but it blew away.
For me, I will definitely eat there again. (no charge for extra toppings? duh)
It's a great way to grab something (very) quick to eat before a movie, at that crummy AMC theatre. (they really need to renovate and clean up that place)
It's kind of like a pizza version of Chipotle. Pick your dough (standard, high-rise and gluten/taste bad), choose your toppings, cook (really fast) and eat. While the two dough options cost more (how can you charge more for less gluten?) there are no added charges for toppings.
That's right. No extra charge for toppings.
Their build your own pizza: $9.65
Build your own cheese pizza: $9.65
Build you own bacon, meatball, chicken, sausage, pepperoni, salami, ham, artichoke, arugula, banana peppers, bell peppers, tomatoes, garlic, basil, jalapeño, mushrooms, olives, pineapple, onions, red peppers, sautéed onion, spinach, zucchini, goat cheese, gorgonzola, mozzarella, oval-ini mozzarella, parmesan, ricotta, vegan cheese, red sauce, spicy red sauce, white sauce, garlic pesto, pesto drizzle, bbq drizzle, olive oil and ranch: $9.65
At least, that's what the guy said who was showing us the menu. No extra charge for your toppings. I was tempted to accept his challenge and make them pile it all on.
Instead, I went with 1/4 sausage, 1/4 pepperoni, 1/2 mushroom and peppers with 1/2 pesto added to the meat side and 1/2 arugula added to the non-meat side, after cooking. My attempt at sampling a variety of toppings, while testing their $9.65 pricing policy.
All that was $9.65! So if there is a limit, I didn't reach it. Yet.
The toughest part of the build your own experience was explaining the difference between 1/2 and 1/4 to the topping person. (thanks Orlando public schools)
I ask myself, "How is this possible? No charge for toppings? They'll never make any money."
Then you find out lemonade and bottle beer is $3.00, draft beer is $7.00 and wine is $8.00. It's kind of like the printer business. "Here's your free printer. Ink is $99.95 but it will only last for 10 pages. See you soon."
I'm not sure how good their wine is. The Cast Member told us the "wine machine" was broken. Their wine, the most expensive beverage, comes out of a machine? Maybe they should call it draft wine? Adding the word draft to beer that comes out of a bottle means you can charge twice as much. And no, they didn't have any wine (for less money) that came out of a bottle.
We settled for a Corona. However, two Cast Members said they didn't have Corona, while one said they did. As they argued this point, my wife grabbed one out of the cooler, where they didn't (or did) have them.
Blaze is a fast-fired pizza place, so it cooks in 180 seconds. Sadly, I didn't notice if they were cooking it via wood or coal fire. (I was too busy repeating over and over how they don't charge for toppings) Gas alone is not that hot, so I'm assuming it was not gas. It cooked fast, it was hot and the crust was toasted.
Overall, the pizza, with all the variants we tried on one pizza was pretty good. Though I eat quite a variety of pizza's at a variety of prices and am usually happy. Cause, pizza. The pepperoni was thin and tasty, but that's sort of hard to mess up. The sausage was okay. The arugula was fresh and tasty as well. (if you like the taste of lawn)
Blaze is not like Via Napoli, in Epcot. The dough alone is very different. No double 00 Caputo flour, hand needed and hand stretched, never tossed. (at least, it's not supposed to be when you have a VPN cert) Blaze uses (keep your hands, arms, legs, hair and clothing clear at all times) dough pressing machines.
It's also not like a coal fired place like Anthony's Coal Fire Pizza, over in Dr. Orlando Phillips. I'd say Blaze's pizza is somewhere between Anthony's and CPK. Not as good as Anthony's, but better than CPK. It's actually like a cheaper MOD Pizza, if you're familiar with that chain. (they charge for toppings)
If you're a pizza snob (and it's okay to be one) and you have strong feelings about how a pizza should look and taste, then you should try Blaze for yourself and then tell everyone how this is not real pizza. (whatever)
The one downside were the huge ceiling fans. They looked like something that was used to fly that gigantic aircraft carrier-in-the-sky thing from The Avengers. I'm surprised the roof didn't fly away. It looks like you could toss stuff up into the razor sharp, spinning 747 wings and create instant shredded compost. The wind was so strong, you could not keep a napkin on the table. No surprise, we took the last three napkins in the napkin holder. The rest were probably against the back wall.
I mentioned it to a Cast Member on our way out. He said, "The wind keeps things off your food." I have to admit, he was right. Sitting in the booth, holding down my napkin and my hair, I noticed (honest truth) a fly on the floor, hanging on for dear life. He was like, "Hey man, drop a fly some crust?" I tried, but it blew away.
For me, I will definitely eat there again. (no charge for extra toppings? duh)
It's a great way to grab something (very) quick to eat before a movie, at that crummy AMC theatre. (they really need to renovate and clean up that place)
