Hillbottom Pie - Port Townsend

Date August 2019 Lunch today? Hillbottom Pie Pizza in Port Townsend. We decided to take a trip to Port Townsend; it is such a nice ride there and back. As usual, we met the peasant market, picked up some veggies and then walked to the city centre and tried to eat in a place when we came across this small pizza place in Tyler Street right in front of Water Street in downtown Port Townsend. It is a sweet, relaxed little pizzeria, a bit dated, but a part of its charm. The menu was not overly extensive, which is a good thing, but many elements that you can choose from. They offer pizzas, soups, salads and pies. We started with a house salad first. The salad offered a variety of greens, with cucumbers, kalamata olives, cherry tomatoes and sweet-hot peppers (I personally felt no heat. The dressing was a sherry dijon vinaigrette, delicious, pleasant and light. The pizza we chose was White Pie. Not your typical tomato sauce; instead ba-walnut pesto, which is a mixture of mozzarella, ricotta and parmesan cheese, with kalamata olives on this thin crust with a significant crispy outer edge than the cornicione. I liked the flavors and loved the crusty edge, although a few areas of the border were a little on the darker side, overall, I felt personally as if it were a cheese overkill, still decent in taste though; My husband, on the other hand, thought it was an excellent pizza. It's nice to try something else. The restaurant offers only a unisex bathroom, it was also a bit dated, could use a bit of makeover, but nothing less clean. Our server was not excessively chatting, but friendly enough and checked us a few times while we bring more water to our table. Overall, I think it was a great place to try, and prices seemed very reasonable, six decent slices for fifteen dollars. Interior and exterior seats.

My two daughters and I enjoyed a wonderful lunch on a stormy rainy day. The service was fast and friendly. I had a pepperoni pizza, that was nice and crispy. Just like I like it! The girls both had salads, and then shared a piece of peach pie. They were happy as well. The only downside was the streets in this part of Port Townsend were all tore up as a construction crew was busy installing some new utilities. It made for some difficult getting round.

Skip the puttanesca. The amount of salt will blow your palate and send your blood pressure through the roof.

Came to Hillbottom on a local's recommendation. The soup, pizza, and pie menu was an odd combo I've never seen. They supposedly have the best clam chowder. We ordered the chowder and it was very strong of nutmeg and didn't get many other flavors. Not the best I've had and would skip next time. We ordered a pesto pizza to share which was very good. We ordered 2 slices of pie to share, a strawberry rhubarb and pecan pie. My slice was a bit burnt. The service wasn't very warm welcoming and I had to get up and ask for water refills and silverware. If anything I'd recommend just getting the pizza takeout.

We got the curried chickpea soup and the beef and barley and throughly enjoyed both ! fast service, good prices and delicious food! with great pie flavors