Wig and Pen – Iowa City, IA
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
This is a bold statement, but I’m a bold kind of person…I believe there is no pizza better than the Flying Tomato at the Wig and Pen in Iowa City, IA.
Last weekend took Kyle and I to our alma mater, the University of Iowa. When in school, we could not get enough Wig and Pen pizza and when we get back there on the rare weekend, we make it our first stop. This British-style pizza joint brings back memories of celebrating birthdays, Ultimate frisbee wins, and of course…the “just because I’m craving it” occasions of being in college.
After arriving this past weekend, we quickly put in our order, and as we awaited this delicious dish to arrive we pondered what makes the crust of the Flying Tomato so fantastically good. It’s flakey, it’s rich, it’s salty…we decided the secret ingredient has to be butter. It’s almost as if it is half pastry and half phyllo in the guise of a pizza crust. Could it be? Perhaps we’ll never know. I’m not sure I’m okay with that suspense. What I am okay with is knowing that, although I can’t eat Wig and Pen all the time, that it is there, in Iowa City, waiting for me to return.
