Pig Ate My Pizza 2.0
Robbinsdale, MN | Restaurant, Commercial
PAMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE
Robbinsdale’s own Travail Collective was ready to take their irreverent, fun, and much loved Pig Ate My Pizza (PAMP) to the next level. The original restaurant had been a DIY affair that through hard work and amazing food became nationally known as one of the best pizza joints in the country. The chef/owners wanted to preserve the pirate spirit of the original, but rebrand with a more flexible, grown up space that allowed their creativity to flourish while providing more food and drink options and plenty of space for customers.
The new space, which offers twice the seating of the former Pig Ate My Pizza, features an expansive bar, a take-out area, and family-style dining room in a classically Minnesotan screened porch. Garage doors provide open-air dining in warm weather and abundant natural light in all seasons. There’s also a microbrewery that will provide chef driven beer to pair with their pizzas and other creations.
RoehrSchmitt provided a clear vision that allowed the the chefs to be the star of the show. The open kitchen is wrapped on three sides with a stainless-steel bar, and the flexible seating areas provide space for everything from trivia night to multi-course tasting menus. The front porch made it possible to open the restaurant to the great outdoors while maintaining the original open kitchen concept—a winning combination in a place where we value both great weather and great chefs.
PAMP ON TAP
Pig Ate My Pizza 2.0 is now also a taproom. With delicious in-house suds like Pigasus, Pig Leicht, and Peel ‘N Squeal—there’s always the prefect pizza pairing fresh and on draught. The new micro-brewery was developed with longtime Travail Chef de Cuisine Andy Goettsch, chef/brewer Nate Moser, and chef Josh Disher.
“Our experience with RoehrSchmitt Architecture was 10/10. They had a great way of connecting and collaborating with us on a brewpub vision for our remodel of Pig Ate My Pizza (Top 10 Best Pizza in America - Food & Wine Mag) and Brewery. Roehrschmitt has a great team of architects and designers that will continue to be our friends and we look forward to working with them on our future endeavors.”
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