My wife and I had a serendipitous (I love that word) dinner at a cool pizza restaurant in Cedar City, Utah tonight. Centro Woodfired Pizzeria opened May 15 of this year and if you are headed for Bryce Canyon National Park or Cedar Breaks National Monument, you need to stop at this place for dinner.
I consider myself a pizza connoisseur and the fennel sausage ($13) pizza was extraordinary — hand-crushed tomato sauce, house-made fennel sausage, aged and smoked mozzarella and American grana. The crust, oh that crust, holy molly! And served in less than 10 minutes. Impeccable service. An excellent selection of wines and beer.
Because of the lightness of the dough, the pizza was easily digestible and does not make you feel stuffed. all the pizzas are one size and have six pieces. I could have easily eaten another three. My wife, a light eater, had her three pieces, which was totally unacceptable.
If that wasn’t enough, I finished it off with gelato ($5) — creamy vanilla gelato served with your choice of topping, olive oil, sea salt and balsamic reduction, raspberry or chocolate sauce. It was like the Iron Chef; the secret ingredient is balsamic reduction. Now make a dessert.
Centro Woodfired Pizzeria is at 50 West University Blvd. (Center Street — this is tricky), Cedar City, Utah. C’mon, folks this is red rock country; beauty surrounds you. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday though Saturday. This is Utah; it is closed Sundays.
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