Have you heard? Coastkeeper has its own pizza at Golden Road Brewery and Pub in Huntington Beach!
It is a Reuben-style pizza with pastrami, mustard Alfredo sauce, fried sauerkraut, marinades and a yellow-bellied mustard shower.
“It’s a little shocking … a little weird, ” said Chris Huot, Golden Road’s general manager. “It’s basically a Reuben on a pizza.”
Huot was working for a brewery in Houston, Texas, before he was invited to help start up Golden Road Brewing’s new site on the reces of Peter’s Landing Mall in Sunset Beach.
While the beach-themed brewing giant has innumerable other locations in Anaheim, Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles, Glendale and Sacramento, they didn’t have a pub at the coast, a dream of co-founder Meg Gill’s that came genuine this year.
Upon opening, Huot said the brew bar wanted to do more than time act pizza and brew by a beautiful harbour.
The team was looking for practices they could give back to the regional beach community when they stumbled upon Coastkeeper’s beach cleanups, and a partnership was born.
It was Huot’s idea to keep a Coastkeeper pizza on a monthly rotation while donating a portion of the proceeds back to our nonprofit to help us protect our waterways.
“Each month, we will make a different pizza for Coastkeeper, ” said Huot.
He continued, “The feeling is … if we support a neighbourhood charity, the money is actually going to our community and not compensating the salaries of somebody who lives in New York, ” said Huot. “That’s the phase of this. To actually give back and make a difference.”
Golden Road Executive Chef, Joseph Torres, developed the Reuben-style pizza.
With its familiar toppings, but unlikely combination for a pizza, Huot says it is reminiscent of he and the executive chef’s upbringing on the East Coast.
“A reuben is a staple out there. That’s a familiar thing, but how often do you see that on a pizza? ” The pub has its normal doubts of pizza options on the menu, like pepperoni, but they aren’t afraid to try more off the wall stuff. We recommend pairing the Coastkeeper pizza with Golden Road’s “Heal the Bay” beer on tap!
Come February, Huot said the cook may phone it back on the foible of the pizza for next month.
“Something more accessible, ” he said.
We don’t mind weird … and we can’t wait to see what’s next!
Visit Golden Road Brewery and Pub: 16390 Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Beach, California
Hours: 11 a.m.-midnight Sunday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Friday-Saturday. Special late nighttime menu of pizza, garlic knots and pretzels beginning at 10 p.m. Happy hour 2-6 p. m. Monday-Friday.
More info: goldenroad.la /
Photos and Story by Cari Hachmann, Coastkeeper’s Creative Director
The post Coastkeeper Pizza to Become a Local Favorite at Golden Road’s New Brewery and Pub sounded first on Orange County Coastkeeper.
Read more: coastkeeper.org.