New restaurant takes pizza to the Extreme
Extreme Pizza - one of the fastest-growing pizza companies in the US, is located on Barrack Street, Kilkenny.
Run by Carla Feely, a native Californian who has been living in Ireland for the past five years, Extreme Pizza offers daring combinations of fresh pizza with creative names such as "Holy Cow", "Peace in the Middle East", "Kickin’ Chicken" and a vegetarian feast called “Drag It Thru’ The Garden”.
Customers can choose to enjoy their pizza in several new ways – either they can swing by the restaurant for a custom slice that is freshly baked in just three minutes, order a home delivery or ‘take-and-bake-it’ – the option that allows you to pick up a raw Extreme Pizza of your choice and bake it at home whenever you are ready for your fresh, hot pizza.
But for the ultimate night out, pizza lovers should check out the hip new Extreme Pizza restaurant which is clad with Extreme Sports photos – a testament to the pastime of the founders.
The first gourmet pizza restaurant of its kind in Kilkenny, Extreme Pizza has scooped several awards in its hometown of San Francisco, California where the franchise was founded over 14 years ago.
Carla Feely, who has set up the franchise’s first ever store outside the US in Kilkenny, says that offering fresh ingredients and convenience is key to its success, “In California, we had such a variety of fresh, great value, delicious food if we weren’t in the mood to cook. When we moved to Ireland, it seemed that all of our friends were torn between two types of guilt if they took a night off from cooking: either financial guilt [expensive fresh food] or nutritional guilt [inexpensive yet deep-fried food]. Extreme Pizza is the ultimate fresh food solution for people – a true affordable luxury.”
Carla holds the master franchise rights for Extreme Pizza for Europe and intends to make Kilkenny the headquarters for franchising and training, creating both jobs and visitors in Kilkenny.
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