Kauffman in 'Eat': Reconsidering the Slice and a Beer

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Dude food: Pi Bar's pie and a pint.

​Maybe, like Sandra Bullock, pizza will never truly go away, just regroup with whatever trend is rippling the zeitgeist. In his study of S.F.'s recent re-scripting of the perennially bro-dacious mix of pizza and beer, "Eat" columnist Jonathan Kauffman endures stools of varying heights at two recent arrivals: Pi Bar and Delarosa. Kauffman:

With each new pizzeria that opens ... people are beginning to wonder: Is this the place that will mark the saturation point? To avoid the really, another one? response, Pi Bar, which opened on Valencia Street in October, and Delarosa, which hit Chestnut Street in late November, have brought pizza together with another foodstuff that successfully straddles the high-low divide: beer. San Francisco, after all, is a center of the cicerone (beer sommelier) movement, and the just-ended SF Beer Week was charged with an excitement that spread far beyond brewgeek circles. So Pi Bar and Delarosa are capitalizing on the all-American love for a slice and a beer. At both places, I thought the food was decent, the vibe comfortably crowded -- and the beer lists the real reasons I'd go back.

Read Kauffman's complete review at SFWeekly.com. And in SFoodie's "Eat" Extra, read about the beer-pairing recommendations you probably weren't aware of last time you crowded into Delarosa.