Handsome Pizza
Handsome Pizza was a pizzeria in Portland, Oregon. Established in 2012, the business closed in August 2022.Description
The pizzeria was located on Killingsworth Street in northeast Portland's Vernon neighborhood and shared a space with Seastar Bakery. Handsome's pizzas were "New York-Neapolitan hybrids" and featured sourdough crusts, baked in a custom-built, wood-fired oven.History
Will Fain acquired the Pizza Depokos cart in 2011 and rebranded the business as Handsome Pizza in 2012. The restaurant operated from a garage in north Portland, until relocating to Killingsworth in August 2015. During a gap between the two locations, Handsome hosted a series of pop-ups at the bakery Tabor Bread. In 2020, fifteen employees were laid off because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, owners announced plans to close on August 14. The pizzeria No Saint moved into the space.Reception
Michael Russell included Handsome in The Oregonian 2016 list of Portland's best new restaurants. The newspaper's Samantha Bakall included the pizzeria in a list of Portland's best wood-fired pizza. In 2018, Russell ranked Handsome number five in a list of Portland's top ten pizzerias, and number six in a list of the city's best pizza by the slice. In 2021, Brooke Jackson-Glidden included Handsome in Eater Portland overview of eateries for "exceptional" pizzas in the city and said the "hyper-seasonal specials are often stunners".