Pizza topped with mushrooms, ?
onions and fresh herbs at Umami Mia Pizzeria
but we endured the line as we found this to be a very satisfying
breakfast option.
The third day of ACL Fest was rained out, so we decided to try a
local pizza joint that we had walked past many times leading up to
“Umami Mia Pizzeria is a farm-totable pizza joint and they even had
herb gardens on the patio where
they grew ingredients.”
the festival gates. We got to Umami Mia Pizzeria around noon and
the place wasn’t very busy because of all the rain and flooding that
happened in the previous 24 hours. The porch was a very pleasant
spot to eat, especially since it was covered and the air smelled fresh
post rain.
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This is a farm-to-table pizza joint and they even had herb gardens
on the patio where they grew ingredients for their specialty pies.
They do in-house curing of the meats and in-house pickling. Their
motto was “fifth taste” in that it would be savory. I ordered a
“personal” pizza that had four large slices of thin crust that wasn’t
super crispy (just as I like it) with pepperoni and mushrooms. My
friends were more adventurous, getting a prosciutto and fig pizza
that looked like it had a lush green tree laid across the pie. For me
it was one of the best slices of pizza I have had in a long time, and
I found out why their mushroom pizza was considered one of the
best in Austin. There was nothing unusual about the pizza, but
the ingredients were so fresh and their in-house methods seeped
through in the taste. Savory was definitely the word for it.
Austin has a lot of food options, but the next time I am there I
will be going back to Umami Mia at least once.