French Pizza Chain Takes On South Beach
Thanks to a tipster on Chowhound, we learned of a new pizza place coming to Miami Beach. But get this — it's from France. La Boîte à Pizza (the site gives a pronunciation guide for we uneducated Americans: Lah-Bwat-Ah-Pizza), currently with locations in France, is expanding to China and North America by the end of 2007, or so the website claims. Three locations in Shanghai are planned, but so far, there's just one in the US — at 1679 Alton Road in Miami Beach. According to chowhound 2top, it should be opening in early November.
The Chinese and American sites aren't ready, so we decided to poke around the French one, and the image that greeted us — of a pizza topped with what looked like ground beef, tomatoes, onions and a fried egg — was truly revolting. Also, the sombrero and cactus aren't promising.
We present La Boîte à Pizza's three newest recipes: the fajita pizza, the Mexican steak pizza, and the pizza burger. We checked out more of the site, but unfortunately our Spanish and Portuguese skills are insufficient to decipher long paragraphs of French. We can, however, make out most of the menu. Perhaps we're too much of a purist, but seriously, does pizza really need curry? Or smoked salmon? Or the contents of a fajita?
A co-worker just came over to help us translate some of the menu items we couldn't understand. Her comment was "The French make terrible pizza." Another co-worker said "It can't suck more than French Tex-Mex." Well dear readers, at La Boîte à Pizza, you will be able to taste French versions of pizza and Tex-Mex. At the same time. We cannot wait.
La Boîte à Pizza [Official Site]
Anything new or coming to Dade? [Chowhound]
