Dimo's Apizza is a pizzeria in

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Dimo's Pizza is a pizzeria on East

Burnside Street Burnside Street is a major thoroughfare of Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon, and one of a few east–west streets that runs uninterrupted on both sides of the Willamette River. It serves as the dividing line between North Portland and South ...

. The restaurant serves

New Haven-style pizza New Haven-style pizza is a style of thin-crust, coal-fired Neapolitan pizza common in and around New Haven, Connecticut. Locally known as apizza (, from Neapolitan ''’na pizza'' , "a pizza"), it originated in 1925 at the Frank Pepe Pizzeria ...

from a coal-fired oven; varieties include tomato with garlic,

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with black-pepper-

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cream, tomato

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, and zucchini, and clams with garlic, parsley, and chili flakes. 'The Father' has sausage and pickled peppers, and the 'Hail Mary' has

soppressata Soppressata is an Italian dry salami. Although there are many variations, two principal types are made: a cured dry sausage typical of Basilicata, Apulia, and Calabria, and a very different uncured salame, made in Tuscany and Liguria. It ...

, Calabrian chile, and Castelvetrano olives. The special called 'This Bacon Is Radicchio!' has bacon,

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, caramelized

red onions Red onions (also known as purple or blue onions in some mainland European countries, though not the UK) are cultivars of the onion ('' Allium cepa''), and have purplish-red skin and white flesh tinged with red. They are most commonly used in c ...

, tomato confit,

fontina Fontina (French: ''Fontine'') is a cow's milk cheese, first produced in Italy. Over time, production of Fontina has spread worldwide, including the United States, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, France and Argentina. Description Fontina is a cheese th ...

, and

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. 'The G.O.A.T.' had tomatoes, sweet summer corn, caramelized red onions,

scamorza Scamorza () is a Southern Italian cow's milk cheese. It can also be made from other milks, but that is less common. It is a stretched-curd cheese, in which the fresh curd matures in its own whey for several hours to allow acidity to develop th ...

goat cheese Goat cheese, or chèvre ( or ; from French language, French ''fromage de chèvre'' 'goat cheese'), is cheese made from goat's milk. Goats were among the first animals to be domesticated for producing food. Goat cheese is made around the world w ...

, parsley, mint, and basil. In addition to pizzas, the restaurant also serves sandwiches, including chicken parmesan and

roast beef Roast beef is a dish of beef that is roasted, generally served as the main dish of a meal. In the Anglosphere, roast beef is one of the meats often served at Sunday lunch or dinner. Yorkshire pudding is a standard side dish. Sliced roast beef ...

on sesame

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. 'The Beast' has whole

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seasoned like brisket, Gruyère, and

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have egg and cheese with bacon or Taylor ham on

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hard rolls.

History

Chef Doug Miriello opened Dimo's in July 2020, in a space which previously housed Burnside Brewing Company and the Danish brewery

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. ''Eater Portland'''s Brooke Jackson-Glidden described the restaurant, named after Miriello's grandmother, as "a new, outdoor, potentially permanent pizza pop-up". In 2021, Dimo's hosted a

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event in collaboration with

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and the cocktail pop-up Shipwreck. A special pizza included wood-roasted Chinese eggplant, tomato

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, lemon, cumin yogurt, herbs, and fried garlic. Some proceeds from the event benefitted Last Prisoner Project, which "aims to rectify the harms of cannabis criminalization". Since April 2022, the restaurant also serves a 4-course dinner meal.

Reception

Willamette Week ''Willamette Week'' (''WW'') is an alternative weekly newspaper and a website published in Portland, Oregon, United States, since 1974. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business, and culture. History Early history ''Willame ...

'' included Dimo's in a list of "Five Great New Restaurants That Opened in 2020". Karen Brooks included Dimo's in ''

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'' 2021 overview of the city's best restaurants and named the pizzeria as one of three which "bolster the case that Portland is America's best pizza city".

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