National Pizza Month: Rusted Sun Pizzeria

Date: October 10, 2008
Guests: Diane and Laura Cañate, Steve and Liz Anderson
Place: Rusted Sun Pizza

2010 S. State St.

Salt Lake City, Utah 84115

Hours: 

Monday through Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Sunday, 4-9 p.m.
Order: 4 sodas

1) Killer Cheese dip served with garlic flatbread (of sorts). The bread was ultra garlick-y, as Liz would say, and the dip although flavorful was overly seasoned, greasy, but in the end too heavy and overdone. So, in short: skip it...seriously, skip it.

2) Bay Shrimp Pizza...This was one of the more interesting pizzas I have had. It was topped mozzarella and another cheese (I can't be sure what type of cheese since I have not become a cheese connoisseur  that I will one day be), red onion, and one surprising and welcomed ingredient: broccoli! I thought it was very balanced and did not stray so far from your traditional feeling to disappoint the pepperoni crowd. 

3) Bleu Cheese Chicken Pizza: thinly sliced chicken with julienne red onions and red peppers. This was our favorite pizza. It seems that the combination of mozzarella and bleu cheese works really well. However, it's the chicken that really makes this pie unique. On your conventional chicken pizza, you'll see chopped or striped chicken, however this pizza has chicken sliced through a butcher's meat slicer. This small change made the chicken so much more a part of a pizza, despite all the non-traditional ingredients, because slicing it thing gave the more flat feeling of some traditional ingredients like pepperoni, salami, and unfortunately ham. 

Total bill: $44, plus tip. 

Overall, I found Rusted Sun Pizzeria modern in flavors and traditional in feel, equipped with a raspy-voiced server.  So take a seat at the counter or try to snag one of the cozy booths, try the Mediterranean Pizza, Pesto Chicken, or one of the pies above. Although we were too full, we would have loved to try one of the desserts: root beer floats*, cheesecake, ice cream-spumoni or vanilla. Definitely, make a stop at Rusted Sun Pizzeria...but all in all the experience was much like this blog post: interesting, not my best work, but still worth it. 

*I have no idea why, but Laura and I are obsessed with root beer floats right now. So, don't be surprised if you see a rundown of the best place to get a root beer float in SLC!