My Pal Derek’s, the elusive pizza pop-up that Seattle loves and follows (on Instagram, that’s), will go from the spot you need to listen carefully to seek out out when it’s doing one thing to a pizza place you possibly can simply cease into at any time when.
The perennial pop-up is changing into an precise pizza joint in Tangletown, with a timeline to open in mid-December, in accordance with the Seattle Instances. It’ll take over the house previously occupied by Ethan Stowell’s MKT.
The pizza, made by self-taught pizzaiolo Derek Reiff, is Detroit-style, and he began promoting them in spring 2020 — it was a pandemic pastime, he tells the Instances. Since then, he’s been promoting pies at any time when he has time exterior his day job as an internet developer. The one technique to discover out My Pal Derek’s would pop up was to maintain a watch out on Instagram for a heads-up. They might continuously promote out in beneath an hour.
To start out, My Pal Derek’s will serve 4 pies, together with white pizza with sausage, purple onion jam, Calabrian chili peppers and ricotta cheese, and pepperoni cups with Castelvetrano olives. It’ll embrace takeout and dine-in. The Instances provides that Reiff is tinkering with making a New York-style pizza in 2025.
