“Engaging our customers in creating their own pizza is one of our selling points,” he said.
Genco said he is confident the make-your-own pizza concept will become the next food destination in Cebu.
Pizza Republic is a fast casual restaurant that offers quality Italian pizza cooked in a wood-fired brick oven
at a very reasonable price. Keywords there are quality, Italian, and reasonably priced!
It has a modern industrial design and is spacious enough to accommodate 120 people.
The catch is, you get to customize your pizza! The restaurant has a long counter
where you can PICK and MIX from a wide variety - over 60 and counting! - of toppings to dress up your pizza.
It functions not only as the production line, but as part of the entertainment as well, being the interactive area.
It can get really exciting watching your pizza get pimped up at your dictation.
Something to note, all the ingredients are imported from Italy so your pizza tastes as close to Italy as possible!
STEP 1: DOUGH
So, we start with the blank canvas, the dough. It is rolled out fresh to order, to a medium
thickness - the perfect balance to anticipate all the toppings you might bombard it with.
A rustic touch is incorporated by leaving the dough in an irregularly round shape - beauty in imperfection!
It is dusted with semolina flour before being handed over to the next step, the sauce.
STEP 2: SAUCE
Olive oil is slathered on the already smooth dough and then you choose between tomato or white sauce.
I settled my fickle-minded tendencies by requesting for half of my dough to have
tomato sauce, and the other half with white sauce.
STEP 3: CHEEEESE
Next, the CHEESE! Mozzarella is the staple but they offer more than the conventional
choices such as Gorgonzola, cream cheese, and goat cheese. Of course, my adventurous palate had
to have Gorgonzola - a blue cheese variety - plus white cheese, parmesan, and the obligatory mozzarella.
STEP 4: MEAT
Choose from an assortment of sausages, hams, BACON, and other meat! I chose Italian garlic sausage,
Coppa ham (the more affordable version of parma ham),
ground bacon for some smokiness and crunch, and smoked chicken fillet.
STEP 5: VEGETABLES (or not?)
I know some people would skip this but I gotta have my greens.
I love fresh mushrooms so I added funghi famigliola. I also added caramelized onions.