O la Ella!

A friend of mine is heading back to Dallas after getting offered a dream job back in his TX hometown (bye Leon!). We decided to grab dinner before his big move, and I picked Ella's Wood Fired Pizza in Chinatown, on F. I'd heard they had gluten free pizza, so of course had to check it out myself.

I ordered the wild mushroom pizza (goat cheese, spinach, mushrooms) on their gluten free crust. Fresh off of the plane from Milwaukee, Ella's had a big shoes to fill (ever in MKE? Check out Marchese's Olive Pit--best pizza, hands down).

Overall, the crust was pretty good--super thin, nice and crispy, and great, wood-fired flavor. I'm always worried my pizza will come out tasting like cardboard, and when it doesn't, I think someone is trying to kill me with regular pizza--this pizza didn't taste like cardboard, but wasn't good enough to make me think I was being poisoned (well, there are rose things, aren't there).

Decent serving size--10" pizza--and for those of you like me who love cold pizza for breakfast, this is definitely a winner. I think Ella's kind of skimped on the toppings, except for the spinach, waayy too much spinach, but the toppings were full of flavor and you could tell it was all fresh. Yummy.

My only complaint is, perhaps a point of preference, I would have liked it to be less dry. There wasn't any moisture in the pizza so when you took a bite out, although deliciously crispy, the crust broke like a cracker (..this is only slightly dramatic).

I would definitely go back to Ella's, but I don't think it would be too hard to find somewhere better.

Have you been to Ella's? What do you think? Where should I try next?