To the best of our recollection the last time we had a wood-grilled pizza was at a small neighborhood restaurant in the town of Cajamarca, Peru, nestled high in the Andes Mountains. That would have been in March of 2016. Even though I've forgotten what a wood-grilled pizza tastes like I told Maribel I'd like to try one again and she agreed. A brief internet search found Bob's Wood Grill on highway 27 just 15 minutes from our house in the town of Rock Spring.
It's not your usual restaurant. It's kinda like a car port covered with mosquito netting. If you didn't know it was there; if you weren't looking for it you would drive right by it. You can see the wood grill behind the motorcycle. There's about 6 or 7 pizzas on the menu. We chose the supreme because it had the most stuff on it. I like stuff on a pizza...cheese, sausage, mushrooms, onions, olives, pimento, anchovies and just about anything else except peperoni. It's not so much that I don't like peperoni, it's that crust, cheese and peperoni have become the standard for pizza and that's not the way it was in the old days. Sixty years ago if someone had served you a pizza like that you would have called them back and asked, "Hey!...where's the rest of it?" This supreme was lacking pimento and anchovies, and the cook apologized for running out of mushrooms but everything else was there. I don't know if $20 for a 14" pizza is good or not but we enjoyed it.
To eat your pizza you have the options of taking it home, eating in your car, or sitting at a picnic table a little way behind the cook tent. A picnic table under a tree was our choice. The mid-70s temperature and mild breeze added to the experience.
Steve is the man on duty the day we were there. He makes the pizzas from scratch and makes sure that the grill maintains the proper temperature. He's an affable guy and enjoys explaining what he's doing. He also has a unique way of informing customers that their pizza is ready. He shouts out, "Getcher wet teddy bear here!" We enjoyed the taste of our pizza but agreed that it was too soft and floppy and could have used more time in the oven, so next time we go there, and we will, I'm going to tell him to make our 'wet teddy bear' a little more crispy.
Wet teddy bear!!!
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