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Meatballs are the perfect start to your meal at Marceline Pizza
Company. A trio of meatballs are cooked in the wood-fi red
oven with house tomato sauce and cheese blend and
sprinkled with fresh herbs to serve.
" We're really
proud of that pizza, " Andrew says. " That cayenne
pepper-infused honey is sourced here in
Marceline. The fl avors are incredible. It's kind of
like a sweet heat spicy mix. It just melds well. "
Their menu contains four vegetarian pizzas, a
gluten-free crust option and plenty of cleverly named
pizzeria staples including The Aloha with bacon, ham and
pineapple and The Marceline Butcher with pepperoni,
Canadian bacon, sausage and bacon. Another customer
favorite that started as a fl atbread is the One Hot Chick.
Andrew's dough is topped with a hot sauce-infused garlic
cream sauce, cheese blend, pulled chicken, pickled red
onions and jalapenos. It's pulled out of the oven and
drizzled with ranch dressing.
If you've got time on your hands and want to be transported
back to Andrew's childhood, there's a much more
fi lling pizza for you. " My dad would get us on the
train and we'd go to this Chicago deep-dish pizza
place and wait in line for hours for it, " he says. " I
think I replicated their recipe pretty darn close. "
The Chicago Deep Dish features a unique, cornmeal
crust piled high with cheese, your choice of toppings,
a little more cheese, hand-crushed tomato sauce and is
sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese on the top. The
piled-high pie cooks for about 45 minutes and is cut into
six slices.
If you've saved room for dessert, Carrie is known to satisfy
a customer's sweet tooth with her homemade cobblers.
" If we're going to do something, we want to make it special, "
she says. " It's all about the pride we take in this place.
Whether it's the food, the service or the atmosphere, we
want it to be a step above and something different. "
Andrew says the open kitchen at the restaurant - where
he can see and interact with guests - reinforces his love of
cooking. " I don't care if it's a dish I make in a restaurant or
for my wife at home, when you see that smile on their face
after that fi rst bite, you know you've made something really
well, " he says. " That smile, that's good. It makes all the
hard work and labor 100% worth it. "
Marceline Pizza Company
Marceline
Specialties: Pizza including One Hot Chick; Pepperoni, Pepperoni; The
Marceline Butcher; The Aloha; weekly fl atbread specials and Chicago deepdish.
Appetizers including meatballs and toasted ravioli. Homemade desserts.
Price: Appetizers and salads from $7 to $10. Sandwiches from $12 to $14.
Pizza from $12 to $22.
Details: Open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Friday
and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Cash and credit
cards accepted. Nonsmoking. Free Wi-Fi. Located at 211 N. Main St. USA in
Marceline. Contact at 660-376-9030 and on Facebook.
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