{"id":1236,"date":"2010-01-11T23:12:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T05:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2010-01-12T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:54:58","slug":"steves-pizza-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"Steve&#8217;s Pizza Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-follow synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DriftlessAppetite\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:48px;height:48px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" style=\"display: inline; 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width:48px;height:48px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rss\" title=\"Subscribe to our RSS Feed\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" style=\"display: inline; width:48px;height:48px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/96x96\/rss.png\" \/><\/a><p>Last Friday we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevespizzapalace.com\/\">Steve&#8217;s Pizza Palace<\/a> in Platteville.\u00a0 Steve&#8217;s makes a nice pie, with plenty of tasty cheese, a nice chewy crust and (in our case) homemade sausage.\u00a0 Now this not at all like my ideal pizza (which you can read about <a href=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=958\">here<\/a>) but it&#8217;s pretty typical American thin crust.\u00a0 But well executed.\u00a0 We also had a Greek salad that was refreshingly mild (I usually find Greek salads way to acidic).\u00a0 Unfortunately it was snowy and we were tired and in a rush, so we only got these two lousy pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/stevespizza.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1237\" title=\"stevespizza\" src=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/stevespizza.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/stevespizza.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/stevespizza-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, the pictures aren&#8217;t going to convince you to go.\u00a0 But I really liked Steve&#8217;s.\u00a0 What you don&#8217;t see here is that it seems to be the &#8220;local joint&#8221; in Platteville.\u00a0 While we sat there, there was a constant stream on regulars in and out; stopping to chat with their friends and treating the place like it was home.\u00a0 The other thing you can&#8217;t see here is that Steve&#8217;s is a little bit crazy.\u00a0 Go to their website and look at the Cove to see one of their &#8220;theme rooms&#8221;.\u00a0 Cosy + crazy is a keeper in my book.\u00a0 Plus they are open until 130AM on the weekends which is pretty rare out here.<\/p>\n<p>This spot could easily be a dominos or pizza hut.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not though, and Platteville is much better off for it.\u00a0 Steve&#8217;s has character&#8211; you know where you are when you&#8217;re there.\u00a0 And that means a lot, at least to me.\u00a0 This is, of course,\u00a0 an outsiders view (believe me, we&#8217;re outsiders in Platteville).\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to hear from people that know the place better that us, what do you think?<\/p>\n<p>*Their website shows there are other Steve&#8217;s Pizza locations in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota all owned by different family members.\u00a0 Thinking about it, I may have eaten at the Northfield location in the past&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday we went to Steve&#8217;s Pizza Palace in Platteville.\u00a0 Steve&#8217;s makes a nice pie, with plenty of tasty cheese, a nice chewy crust and (in our case) homemade sausage.\u00a0 Now this not at all like my ideal pizza (which you can read about here) but it&#8217;s pretty typical American thin crust.\u00a0 But well executed.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[62,81,36],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftless-area-towns","category-restaurants","tag-pizza","tag-platteville","tag-restaurant","no-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}