| Handsome Pizza | |
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 Exterior and covered seating, 2022 | |
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| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 2012 |
| Closed | August 14, 2022 |
| Food type | Pizza |
| Street address | 1603 Northeast Killingsworth Street |
| City | Portland |
| County | Multnomah |
| State | Oregon |
| Postal/ZIP Code | 97211 |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 45°33′46″N122°38′56″W / 45.5628°N 122.6489°W |
| Website | handsomeseastar |
Handsome Pizza was a pizzeria in Portland, Oregon. Established in 2012, the business closed in August 2022.
The pizzeria was located on Killingsworth Street in northeast Portland's Vernon neighborhood and shared a space with Seastar Bakery. [1] [2] Handsome's pizzas were "New York-Neapolitan hybrids" and featured sourdough crusts, baked in a custom-built, wood-fired oven. [3]
Will Fain acquired the Pizza Depokos cart in 2011 [4] and rebranded the business as Handsome Pizza in 2012. [5] The restaurant operated from a garage in north Portland, until relocating to Killingsworth in August 2015. [3] [2] [6] During a gap between the two locations, Handsome hosted a series of pop-ups at the bakery Tabor Bread. [7] [8] In 2020, fifteen employees were laid off because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. [9] In 2022, owners announced plans to close on August 14. [10] [11] [12] The pizzeria No Saint moved into the space. [13]
Michael Russell included Handsome in The Oregonian 's 2016 list of Portland's best new restaurants. [14] The newspaper's Samantha Bakall included the pizzeria in a list of Portland's best wood-fired pizza. [15] In 2018, Russell ranked Handsome number five in a list of Portland's top ten pizzerias, [16] and number six in a list of the city's best pizza by the slice. [17] In 2021, Brooke Jackson-Glidden included Handsome in Eater Portland 's overview of eateries for "exceptional" pizzas in the city and said the "hyper-seasonal specials are often stunners". [18]
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