{"id":563,"date":"2022-07-03T22:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T22:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themarkolympia.com\/chefsjournal\/?p=563"},"modified":"2023-03-06T01:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T01:13:21","slug":"romanstylepizza-patio-nights-pizza-al-taglio-good-friends-wine-cocktails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themarkolympia.com\/chefsjournal\/romanstylepizza-patio-nights-pizza-al-taglio-good-friends-wine-cocktails\/","title":{"rendered":"Re Opening Post covid shut down!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarkolympia.com\/chefsjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-5.11.02-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themarkolympia.com\/chefsjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-5.11.02-PM-800x531.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themarkolympia.com\/chefsjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-5.11.02-PM-800x531.png 800w, https:\/\/www.themarkolympia.com\/chefsjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-5.11.02-PM-400x266.png 400w, https:\/\/www.themarkolympia.com\/chefsjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-5.11.02-PM-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/www.themarkolympia.com\/chefsjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-5.11.02-PM-1536x1020.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.themarkolympia.com\/chefsjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-05-at-5.11.02-PM.png 1786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News story the Olympian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mark, mostly closed since March 2020, is back. Lisa Scott Owen\u2019s 21-year-old restaurant, lounge and event venue is still stylish and still serving creative cocktails and authentic Italian cuisine, but instead of pasta, steak and fish, the only food on the menu is pizza. It\u2019s not just any pizza, though. It\u2019s pizza al taglio, a rectangular Roman street food with a crust that is lighter, crisper and more structured than the familiar round pie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owen bakes it herself, getting up at 6 each Thursday morning to start the long-rising dough. She serves four varieties at any one time in rotating flavors ranging from sweet blueberry and fig to tried-and-true pepperoni. Always an option is a topping-free variety; think focaccia but with a completely different texture. \u201cI work 18 hours a day on Thursdays right now,\u201d she told The Olympian. \u201cI\u2019m working behind the bar to help train staff and redesign the cocktail menu. It\u2019s like opening a new restaurant, but it\u2019s an old restaurant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The restaurant\u2019s reinvention, an adaptation to COVID, isn\u2019t as unlikely as it might sound. Owen spent a year in Italy in her early 20s and fell in love with the country, the language and, of course, the food. \u201cOnce you live in Italy, you only like the most beautiful things,\u201d she said. \u201cYour relationship to food is completely different.\u201d In the time since COVID emerged, Owen has hosted a few tiny weddings at The Mark, gotten ordained so she can perform ceremonies, and redesigned the space behind the restaurant for use year-round. But like business owners everywhere, she struggled to find a way forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea for pizza came from friends Liz and Mike McConnell, who own O Sole Mio on Vashon Island. \u201cThey said, \u2018Lisa, you have to do pizza,\u2019 \u201d Owen said. \u201cI realized they were right, and I dove right in.\u201d She apprenticed with the McConnells and then used frequent-flier miles to head to Italy, a place she\u2019s been visiting regularly for decades. During the pandemic, Romans reinvented pizza la taglia (which translates to \u201cpizza by the cut,\u201d since pizza makers cut off a rectangle for their customers). Once strictly street food, it became a sit-down restaurant meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll these restaurants serving pizza and cocktails and wine had appeared in Rome during COVID,\u201d Owen said. \u201cIt was a way to get out and have a chic experience outside with friends. I realized that this was what I should do, because COVID is still here, and we just don\u2019t know how bad it\u2019s going to get. People don\u2019t go out as much as they did.\u201d She\u2019s being cautious, asking that customers eating indoors be vaccinated and wear masks when away from their tables. She\u2019s also being cautious about finances, accepting only cash. (There\u2019s an ATM in the restaurant.) But within the parameters of pizza, Owen is finding the fun. She\u2019s continuing to refine her dough recipe with help from longtime friend Eugenio Aliotta, who owned the now- closed but still iconic downtown Italian restaurant Trinacria. She\u2019s also getting creative with toppings \u2014 the fig and blueberry is one example \u2014 and incorporating the local ingredients she loves. Fresh corn and golden cherry tomatoes from Rising River Farm have been featured on recent pizzas. Her motto, she said: \u201cGo small and stay open.\u201d THE MARK Where: 407-409 Columbia St. SW, Olympia Hours: 6-11 p.m. Thursday through Saturday Details: 360-754-4414; http:\/\/themarkolympia.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/entertainment\/restaurants\/ article265473166.html#storylink=cpy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#romanpizza #pationights #PizzaalTaglio #goodfriends #wine #cocktails #pizza #pizzalovers #sourdough #italianwine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News story the Olympian The Mark, mostly closed since March 2020, is back. Lisa Scott Owen\u2019s 21-year-old restaurant, lounge and event venue is still stylish and still serving creative cocktails and authentic Italian cuisine, but instead of pasta, steak and fish, the only food on the menu is pizza. It\u2019s not just any pizza, though. 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