Flatbread Community Oven

Flatbread is located in the Bown Crossing community and a little out of the way if you’re not already on the East side of Boise. With gas prices the way they are I wouldn’t recommend that you should spend the extra $$$ or fuel to get there. The one thing this place does have the not many do is the nod from the Verace Pizza Napoletana Americas (VPN). What does this mean? I’m not a 100% sure but I do know you can taste the freshness of the food when you dine.(check out the web sites). I have eaten at another certified establishment in Vegas and was equally impressed with the fresh taste. The pizza sauce in particular.

On this day the company I’m with (my lovely wife and two beautiful daughters) means more than the food itself but it also gives me the opportunity to try multiple things in one visit.
Flatbread has a nice array of items on the menu from Pizza to Salad to Pasta, etc. We tried a bunch of them but all in all I thought it was a little over priced for a lunch. Most items will run around $9. I was impressed with the lunch option that allows you to mix two of most anything (half size) on the menu for $8.50. You have to stay away from anything but water to drink to keep it under $10 but they do give you more than a portion size of each item. I was also impressed that the kids menu includes the option for them to assemble their own pizza prior to cooking. This was a nice touch scoring high marks with the little ones.
My wife had the lasagna that was good…just…..kind of……, lacking flavor. Again, the sauce has a great fresh flavor but I would add more fresh herbs, cheeses and some spice to the sausage. My lunch was also good (sauce less pizza and Italian salad) but would order differently if dinning here again.
Now…..for the highlight of the afternoon…(drum roll)…………..the pepperoni that my wife and I picked from the pizza of the defenseless children. You can tell from the miss shaped pieces this is cut from a log of gastronomical delight. Extremely full of flavor but not to spicy and not to fatty. When cooked on the pizza it crisps and curls toward the sky at the edges secreting its delightful oils through out the rest of the pie. Obviously this is the type of thing that warms my heart. No, not the depriving my children of their meal. I now know that I need to order nothing fancy from this establishment. I’ll take a pepperoni pizza with more pepperoni and extra pepperoni!!! I wonder if I can get that with a side of Tums, a gas mask and a gym membership.

http://www.flatbreadpizza.com/
http://www.verapizzanapoletana.org/vpn/vpn_frames-index.htm