Pizza You Can Feel Good About By Edan Goode

Organic Pizza Company
4500 W. 38^th Ave., #110 in the Highlands neighborhood of Denver.

EAT-OPCSilcillian — The Sicilian Pizza, ready to take-and-bake

Second location, 891 14^th St. #120, downtown in the SPIRE Denver building will open in November

Read on to find out how you can win a free pizza for your family

Pizza is a wonderful thing. Think of it – a lovely piece of toasty bread topped with sauce, pretty much any edible ingredient you can imagine and then cheese! Best of all, you can eat it with your hands. It’s also easy to get whether you have it delivered, pick it up or make it yourself which I’ve done for years (with both success and major time commitment). Despite the inconvenience, I like the idea of serving my family homemade pizza with natural ingredients, fresh out of our oven or off our grill. That’s why I was glad to hear about a new pizza place, Organic Pizza Company, which just opened its first location on October 3 in Denver.

This is pizza I can feel good about for reasons that include:

It’s a family-owned-and-operated business.
They’re good folks who give back. They donate some proceeds as well as all excess fresh produce to Metro CareRing, a local non-profit that assists people through times of crisis.
The Chef, Kevin Mooney, has an extensive background in fine dining restaurants, meaning these are some creative, awesome pizzas from the fanciest to the most basic.
OPC’s menu of signature pizzas and salads contain organic and all-natural ingredients, locally-sourced whenever possible. Gluten-free pizzas are also available.
One can order take-and-bake pizzas at the restaurant, by ordering online or by phone. Here’s the really clever part – they’ll deliver your pizza within a 2-mile radius of the restaurant location. Just picture it – mid-afternoon, you’re hard at work at your office and you think “what am I going to make for dinner?” Order it, they’ll deliver it to your office and you go home with a pizza that is hot out of the oven in 15 minutes! See, you still made dinner for the family, guilt-free. You’re such a good provider.

Sound good? It is. I can vouch for that, having had the opportunity to sample several of their pizzas. My favorite was The Tandori with savory alfredo sauce, tandori spiced chicken, fresh spinach, red onions, scallions and feta cheese. The side of fresh mint (or other fresh herbs) provided to add once the pizza is baked is a really nice touch. I also loved one I thought I wouldn’t: The Piedmont with a four cheese blend, prosciutto, asparagus, arugula, cantaloupe and a dash of white truffle oil with a side of basil. The pepperoni and cheese were great too. The 12- and 14-inch pizzas range in price from $7.99 – $19.99.

THE CONTEST:

Hopefully by now, I’ve enticed you into wanting to have some Organic Pizza Company pizza. Of course you can go to their Highlands location and I encourage you to do so. You can also enter to win a large OPC pizza. Here’s how:

Visit their Facebook page to see all of their pizzas. As you run your cursor over each pizza, its name and full ingredient description will pop up.
“Like” them while you’re there so you can be privy to the latest pizza news.
Return here to this very EAT blog by midnight, Tuesday, October 19 and leave a comment for Edan Goode (me) telling me which of those pizzas you are anxious to try. My foodie cohorts and I will randomly pick five winners on Wednesday, October 20 to receive a gift certificate for a free, large pizza from Organic Pizza Company.

That’s all there is to it. Visit them, then visit me. Easy…almost as easy as tasty take-and-bake pizza.