In the hunt for the world’s finest cheese pizza? Look no additional than Hamilton.
Native pizzeria Cowabunga received the most effective slice of cheese pizza on the Worldwide Pizza Problem in Las Vegas final week — a prestigious prize for “passionate pizzamakers” co-owner Andy Huynh advised CBC’s Metro Morning on Tuesday.
“It’s catapulting us into far more than we may’ve eve imagined,” Huynh mentioned. “I’ve at all times needed to win an award like this.”
Behind the proper pie and candy victory was a tumultuous crew effort.
The important thing to Cowabunga’s pizza is its dough, constructed from a sourdough starter, that should sit and chill for not less than 72 hours, Huynh mentioned.
11:01Hamilton pizzeria wins the prize for ‘Greatest Slice of Cheese Pizza’ on the earth
Andy Huynh is co-owner of Cowabunga Pizzeria in Hamilton.
That meant he and co-owner Justin Tanda ready the dough prematurely of flying to Las Vegas, mentioned Huynh. They then packed a few of the dough in a checked cooler and extra of their carry-on baggage, saved chilly alongside baggage of frozen fruit.
When the landed in Las Vegas and went to gather their most prized possession, they found the dough was lacking. In order that they turned to their carry-on back-up dough, which received them fourth place within the first spherical of competitors — ok to nab a spot within the closing.
The subsequent hurdle was determining the way to get extra of their correctly rested dough in Hamilton throughout the continent in 24 hours, mentioned Huynh.
One in every of their staffers booked a last-minute flight to move the dough hundreds of kilometres on Wednesday night time for the Thursday competitors.
“It was just about a buzzer beater second,” Huynh mentioned.
Additionally they relied on the identical Canadian cheese and sauce for the ultimate product.
Within the days since, Huynh mentioned clients have stopped by their places on Vine Road and Higher Wellington Road to congratulate them and take a chunk of the well-known slice.
“We’re ready to see what occurs within the subsequent weeks and months with how effectively it’s going to assist our enterprise,” he mentioned.
John Chetti, supervisor accomplice of Queen Margherita Pizza in Toronto, has been a choose for a contest nearer to dwelling — the Canadian Pizza Summit — the place one other Hamilton pizzeria, Maipai tiki and pizza bar, has beforehand received for finest pizza recipe for the restaurant’s Mala Honey Pie.
Chetti beforehand advised CBC Hamilton that general Canada has “nice expertise” in relation to pizza cooks. He mentioned Canada’s two main cultural centres for pizza making are the Better Toronto Space and Montreal, the latter having “genuine roots and really progressive cooks which might be prepared to take dangers.”
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