‘225 Dine:’ A first look at City Slice Pints and Pies

Stephen Hightower, owner of City Pork restaurants, is painting the town—or at least his new restaurant—red.
The newest tenant of the LSU North Gates, City Slice Pints & Pies is a bright red pizza joint offering New Haven-inspired pizza and a whole lot more, 225 Dine reports in its weekly newsletter.
Hightower says this idea has been a long time in the making, building on City Pork’s success and their ability to make their own meats for the pizzas. His wish became a reality when his team decided they needed a kitchen to produce more meat for the recently opened City Pork stand in the LSU Design Building. Upon coming across a potential location off Chimes Street, City Slice was born.
The restaurant—which is set to open Tuesday at 124 W. Chimes St.—offers around eight specialty pizza combinations, as well as a build-your-own pizza option.
The pizza pies are topped with a unique blend of Romano and mozzarella cheese and housemade meats like andouille, bacon, Cajun smoked sausage and alligator sausage, along with everyone’s favorites like pepperoni, salami and Italian-spiced ground beef.
City Slice has also created three homemade sauces: a traditional red sauce, a white sauce and—thanks to the proximity to LSU—a purple sauce, which is a spicier version of the classic red sauce.
To fulfill the “pints” of City Slice Pints & Pies, the restaurant will have 15 different beers on tap. Hightower says the beer selection will focus on local brews, with eight of the 15 taps offering rotating varieties.
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