![]() ![]() They also have the oddly named "round pizza," available with choice of thin or medium crust, but it was just okay, not surprising since every single local I talked to empathically pushed the Detroit. #BROWN DOG PIZZA PMENU PLUS#Altogether there are ten house varieties, each unique, with everything from artichoke hearts to BBQ chicken, plus you can make your own. The most popular model is the Mountaintop, with double pepperoni (regular and natural casing) and white button mushrooms, which took second place in the (different) World Pizza Games. The 313 (Detroit's area code) won second place in the 2011 American Pizza Championships and comes topped with ricotta, garlic, genoa salami, red Calabrian chili peppers, sweet piquante peppers, fresh basil, and arugula. Brown Dog's version is awesome, thick yet light, rich, delicious and unlike pretty much any other pizza crust out there. The result is sort of a cross between New York Sicilian style pizza, but not as bready, and Greek-style, which has a notably buttery crust. If you sit here long enough and eavesdrop on your fellow diners, as I did, you will hear lots of "This crust is so good" and "You can't beat this crust." The crust is so important to the Brown Dog experience that the concierge at my hotel suggested ordering only small pizzas, no matter how many people were in the party, because they are rectangular and then you get more corners, coveted because they have twice the crust (small is four slices, all corners, large is eight). He also played on the 1997 University of Michigan national championship football team with Tom Brady, which explains a lot of the decor – and the pizza. The food: Brown Dog has been at its current locating for nine years, but the Detroit-style pizza is a more recent addition from co-owner Jeff "Smoke" Smokevitch. ![]() Almost all the other wall space is occupied by framed banners, sports jerseys and other memorabilia, like Red Wings and Wolverines items, mostly with a Michigan connection. Other than the huge ski resort trail map in the hall, it is essentially a sports bar, with five big flat screen TVs on brick walls, almost touching each other. Inside are two dining levels with a loft-style construction, so the upstairs is a balcony overlooking the bar. Marked by a sign featuring a brown Labrador retriever, it looks like any other generic ski town bar, with a glass front and carved wooden door on a vaguely Victorian building in the middle of a block in downtown Telluride. So whether you find yourself in Telluride in the next few weeks, or more likely the next few months as snow blankets the trails, do not miss Brown Dog Pizza. One of the best spots is the Southwestern corner, home to Mesa Verde National Park, the famed Durango-Silverton railway, and Telluride, one of the world's great ski towns, but also a great year-round destination, with endless summer festivals, top-notch hiking and mountain biking, great fall foliage, and surprisingly, amazing pizza. But many parts of the state remain unscathed, and Colorado is renowned for its natural and historic wonders. ![]() The scene: In recent weeks, natural disasters have devastated parts of Colorado, and in addition to the loss of life and property, there has been a severe drop in much-needed tourism. ![]()
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