Main Street Pizza has been open for several months already, but the cafe/bistro style restaurant has never gotten around to that grand opening.
Until now.
The downtown restaurant, which mostly specializes in pizza, will be offering half-price items, a bounce house for the kids, and free beer for the adults (and NFL football) after the kids leave, Sunday, Sept. 11.
“It’s the first night for NFL football too,” said Lanson Miller, the restaurant owner/manager and chef.
Miller, at 20, calls himself the youngest entrepreneur on Main Street. He wants to sell beer and wine at Main Street Pizza, but until February, at least, he is too young to get a license.
The emphasis at Main Street Pizza is, of course, pizza. (I talked about the some of those really good pizzas in depth when the restaurant opened earlier this year). But Miller loves to cook so there might always be a new surprise on that menu.
If you go in for the pizza this week, you just might want to opt for the new Cheese Infused Burgers instead. This is a really good burger (think Five Guys or something similar), and it’s just $5. The burger includes two patties (six ounces, uncooked), stuffed with your choice of either cheddar, bacon cheddar or mushroom. You can add lettuce and tomato as well.
It is also one juicy burger, so have those napkins handy.
Also new on the menu is something that came right from Miller’s inventive cooking mind: a cinnamon roll kind of concoction that came about by accident.
“We were making dough and had some extra dough and were trying to figure out what to do with it,” he said.
And the Pepperoni Bun came to be.
He just added some pepperoni and mozzarella to the dough, some spices and topped it with their house made garlic butter.
It is a really nice, crispy appetizer that you can have before that pizza.
“It’s a fushion thing and different, different, different,” which is kind of like Miller’s mantra for operating a restaurant.
They are made to order, so be prepared to wait a bit. You get six for $6.95.
Miller would like to see more cooperation between area downtown restaurants, and he has already started that if you look at the menu.
The newest pizza is Big John’s Rockin BBQ Pizza, featuring barbecue pulled park from downtown Kissimmee’s Big John’s Rockin BBQ, which is just a few blocks away from Main Street Pizza.
The pizza also includes a garlic butter sauce, creamy mozzarella, red onion, bacon, jalapenos, topped with a homey barbecue and tangy honey mustard sauce. Like pretty much off of the restaurants, pizzas, it’s available in personal, large and extra large, $11.95-$18.95.
If you are on a budget, Main Street Pizza also has a lunch special. You can get two cheese slices and a drink for $4, tax included.
And here is one special you won’t find on the menu. Miller has somehow found the time to play Pokemon Go (“I usually play after hours by the lakefront with my girlfriend, he said) and may just have the only Pokemon Go discount in town.
Just show on your Pokemon Go app that you have reached level 30 or higher, and you get a large cheese pizza with a $10 purchase. I am sure this is one of those deals that could end without notice, but it’s cool if you play Pokemon Go a lot.
As for that big grand-opening event, Main Street Pizza will offer pizzas and calzones at half-price, Sept. 11 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The draft beer is free after 5 until it runs out.
Main Street Pizza is located at 708 N. Main St. and open daily except Saturday. And it will be open Sundays, starting with the grand opening event