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| - **La Grande Orange Pizzeria is attached to La Grande Orange Grocery**
As a first timer, the way in which to do things here was slightly confusing but here's the gist:
1) Place and pay your food order at the LGO Grocery. Their menu offers pizza,
salads, burgers, and drinks. Gelato and pastries are also available for dessert.
In addition to made-to-order food, there are pre-packaged salads and
sandwiches available for purchase at the LGO Grocery.
2) If eating there, find your own table outside or in the adjoining LGO Pizzeria
which has the pizza oven visible to anyone seated in the room so you can watch
the cooks make your pizza if you so desire.
3) Once you find a table wait for one of the cooks to yel and I mean literally yell out
your name.
4) Pick up your pizza, return to the table, and enjoy!
So after a full morning of visiting the Desert Botanical Garden, lunching at Chelsea's Kitchen, and shopping at Biltmore Fashion Plaza me and my friend worked up a small appetite and agreed to share a pizza at LGO Pizzeria.
We shared the mushroom pizza which may sound like a regular pizza you can get at any Pizza Hut or Dominos. HOWEVER the "Mushroom Party" pizza at LGO is anything but a regular mushroom pizza. Just the playful name alone: "Mushroom Party" suggests that you'll have a great time eating it. If you're not a fan of mushrooms don't get this pizza; but f you're like me and absou-freaking-lutely love mushrooms get this pizza! The "Mushroom Party" includes a combination of crimini, oyster, and button mushrooms with onion and fennel.
The different types of mushrooms used, added to the taste and texture of the pizza. The onion and fennel gave the pizza a bit of tartness and sweetness and a bit of crunch. The sourdough crust also added another layer of flavor to the pizza. The combination of all these factors definitely elevated the pizza from just being another basic mushroom pizza. We easily finished the pizza and each had 4 small, but filling, slices. At $15 it was a fair price for a quality, made-to-order pizza.
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