Obama's Favorite Pizza Coming To Washington

The owners of the pizzeria that makes Barack Obama's favorite pies are heading to Washington, NBC 5's Anthony Ponce reports.

Italian Fiesta Pizza in Hyde Park is taking its spicy-sauced, thin crust pizza to D.C. for an event previewing the food at the inauguration:

The Ritz in Washington D.C. is paying to fly the pizzeria's owners to the nation's capitol for the inauguration expo to be held there next week to serve their pizza there.

A month before the election, owner Patti Harris-Tubbs got a phone call from the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., asking if she would be willing to come to the nation's capital to make her pizza if Obama won. She thought it was a joke, Harris-Tubbs when Obama won, the hotel e-mailed back, offering to fly her and her husband out to serve their pizza next week at the Presidential Inauguration Expo, which is an event designed to preview the food that will be served at inauguration time in January.

The owners told NBC that Obama was introduced to their pizza by Michelle Obama, whose parents gave it to her as a reward for good grades.

Watch a WGN Report on the pizzeria:

Comments

[EndangeredJackalope]

Good God, Pizza in Chicago and St. Louis is good.... DC has a nice jumbo slice, but its a NYC tag-along and nothing unique like the midwest.

[MsMcgee]

Ummmmm
I use to love pizza, now I get it once a year and have to go to West Va. To get it! ( I live 50 miles south of DC) If any one ever makes their way to a little place called Davis, West Va., (we get a cabin in Blackwater Falls every year to cross country ski) there is a place that will knock your socks off, Cyranos. OMG, it has to be the best pizza I’ve ever had and worth the trip on it’s own. Then on to Thomas, just up the road, to The Purple Fiddle, for drinks and the best live entertainment on a home made stage with a quilt curtain backdrop, mis-matched tables and chairs, and drinks from mason jars. They also have incredible food! It doesn’t get much better than that! http://www.purplefiddle.com/

[Geranium]

Oh good, I'll be able to sleep tonight knowing he has his pizza.

[edwarvir]

Nobody beats Gloria's Pizza in NYC , but I am glad
he's going to have and enjoy his favorite Pizza.

[thebluecrayon]

That WGN report was entertaining - glad I took the time to watch the video. Sure miss those days when I ate pizza every week. Sigh...healthy is good.

[Big0725]

I hear ya. Why can't there a healthy large double cheese, pepperoni and sausage Chicago-style pizza?

[bigbenny]

Amen to that.

[oneblackvote]

The best pizza is found in California. Full Circle Organic Pizzas. The feta cheese and spinach pizza is the best.

[Big0725]

You are joking, right?

[kellygrrrl]

to each his own

[donchep]

There is just so much wrong with this post. I don't even know where to begin.

[RobertAndropolis]

It stretches the definition of pizza...but it is damn tasty.

[furiousMB]

Dearest President-Elect Obama,
Soon you will be within spittin' distance of Charm City, AKA Baltimore MD. I know you'll be incredibly busy, but I hope you'll pay us a visit. You and Michelle can bring the girls to the National Aquarium, Maryland Science Center, the Reginald Lewis Museum of African American History, Fort McHenry or the Flag House.

Afterward, enjoy dinner at Matthew's Pizza in Southeast Baltimore. It's the BEST pizza in Baltimore and home of the Crab Pie. So tasty you'll go crazy hon!

[Gladys1963]

Then head over to Linthicum to G&M for the best crab cakes in town!

[NoSillyName]

Stop it! You're making me miss Baltimore!!!

[Okieborn]

A great American Story !!

[eleutheros]

Regardless of where the picture was taken, etc., I am heartened to see my President correctly, "folding" his slice. No forks and knifes, thank you.

[brobike42]

Yesss! He is holding it correctly. I knew there was at least one more reason I voted for him. I'll travel to DC just for a taste of that pie.

[ellawensmom]

ha ha ha
You know, for some reason, I can't stand it when people fold their pizza.
You can't enjoy looking at all the gooey cheese and goodness you're about to put in your mouth...
ha ha ha

[kotexbarbie]

I was hoping Obama was Vegan or at least Vegetarian!!! Sausage? Not change I can believe in... . Sounds like a meat recipe for prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is unheard of in vegans and extremely low in Vegetarians. But goes WAY up in omnivorous men!

[RockySoldier]

Uh, you can smile for a minute. You don't have to rage against the machine 24/7. Relax.

[kotexbarbie]

I hear you man...

[likeicare]

Hmmmm . . . interesting (in a disturbing way) nic you have there, kotexbarbie -- some unresolved sexual issues, maybe?

Anywayyyyyy . . . I always thought eating too much red meat made a person more irritable, but you (I assume you're a vegetarian, right?) seem to have blown that theory away, from the language in your post.

Go have a nice cup of decaffienated tea, or something -- and take a Valium, too, while you're at it.

[Big0725]

Yo hippie, yer harshing my buzz!

[CindyKay]

ROFLMAO ! Exactly !

[RobertAndropolis]

Since Obama is a great reader, he probably lives his life in accord with Socrates's "Everything in moderation." You might try it some time before you become a neurotic L.A. actress-type, like Posh Spice eating only half a cookie.

[TioNed]

Pizza is popular in Chicago, but tacos al pastor, burritos, hot dogs, kielbasas,pad thai and Italian beef are more popular (not to mention White Castles). Black neighborhoods are jammed with fried fish and BBQ joints. Mexicans love seafood and there are Mexican places that serve up massive seafood platters and cocktails.

Rib tips and hot links, burritos al pastor, proper ceviche, and good Italian beef with juice all rock. Dim Sum in Chinatown kicks ass.

White Castles are cool if they're steaming hot off the grill, otherwise they suck.(Cold White Castles smell bad and empty White Castle cartons sitting in a car smell even worse ) Whoever got the idea of putting jalapeno cheese on a White Castle was a genius and probably deserves a cabinet position.

White Castle, as the cheapest burger maker in the US, will almost certainly benefit from the current recession as they did from the Great Depression.. but you can't buy stock in White Castle, it's privately owned.

[cheeriogirl]

Steaming white castles are the BEST! I used to buy them for 11 cents each- those were definitely the days!

[kotexbarbie]

I made a steaming White Castle this morning ! Obama will be living in the White House not a White Castle. And I hope he won't be eating the crap your talking about or he'll have a heart tack before his second term.

[wwhitfie81]

What I would give for an Italian beef, double dipped with the works!!!!! I need to book a flight back home (Chicago), and partake in the in its wonderful goodness, that is food!!!!

THANKS A LOT TIONED!!!!!

[ADinSC]

With peppers and on Gonella bread, I assume? I want to go home!!!!

[noseysniper]

That picture proves there's a picture of Obama doing literally everything.

[thebluecrayon]

LOL! So true.

[Gunfighter]

It couldn't hurt.

Decent pizza is nearly impossible to find in this epicurean wasteland.

[Big0725]

Now that is an interesting post. I've never read the words "pizza" and "epicurean" in the same sentence.

[Rosanneofpgh]

The absolute best pizza Ive ever had was Chicago-style pizza IN CHICAGO. Ive never had better pizza anyplace else.

The best pizza in Pittsburgh is from a little pizza place called the Pizza Palace. (Sorry, Pizza Hut, Papa John and Dominoes.)

[11907281]

The guy is a comic book collector and pizza lover !!! Revenge of the nerds say "take that Joe the Book-deal/Country-singer/Anything-but-a-pulmber!!!

[TN]

Property Tax evader.

[bikerdude]

Uh, Joe is getting offers to do a book and they are saying "no thanks" to our illustrious president. As phony as Joe the whatever is, he is still more popular than GWB.....

[whsmith]

Thin crust?? That aint Chicago... but I'm not a fan of pan pizza personally - so good choice Barack

[GregJL]

No no...the REALLY thin crust is A Chicago style...but the picture they are showing of Obama eating a slice is most DEFINITELY New York...so if New York is what he likes, it's just one more reason for me to like HIM.

[RockySoldier]

NEVER! As a Chicago soldier stationed in NY, that's definitely a NY-style garbage floppy pizza. Mr. President Elect loves CHICAGO style!

Deep dish! Stuffed! Either! That's the CHICAGO WAY!