Sf Eater: The Best Dishes Eater SF Editors Ate This Week: April 22
Follow the Eater SF team as they share their favorite dishes from around the Bay Area
Paolo Bicchieri is a reporter at Eater SF writing about Bay Area restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups.
Chicken tikka-ish pizza at Square Pie Guys
Dianne de Guzman
I’ve held onto this Best Dish for a couple of weeks, as I’ve been waiting for the moment when Square Pie Guys releases its limited run of Indian pizzas, and now’s finally the time: the chicken tikka-ish pizza is out this Thursday, and to be quite honest, I’m probably going to order another one for a dinner soon. As part of my interview with SPG’s Priya Kane and cookbook author Hetal Vasavada, I was able to sample the pizza ahead of time, and I have to say I’m a fan. The charred bits of tandoori chicken play well with the tikka-like sauce, all sitting comfortably on Detroit-style pizza dough. The cilantro-mint chutney, green onions, and pickled red onions lend a kick against those richer flavors of chicken and sauce, giving the pizza another dimension of taste. It’s another way to experience the Indian American dish and, as Kane and Vasavada mention, it’s a gateway into the locally beloved and invented Indian pizza. Hopefully, a slice of this pie will encourage people to explore further with visits to Zante’s and Mr. Singh’s. Square Pie Guys, with locations in San Francisco and Oakland, launches its Indian pizzas on Thursday, April 25 through the end of July.
— Dianne de Guzman, Eater SF deputy editor