You’re Gonna Be Lovin’ Vic’s Oven

Tired of eating the same old types of pizza all the time? Want something more exciting than just pepperoni, veggies, and sausage? Then Vic’s Oven is the place for you.

Vic’s Oven is a pizzeria located in Bridgewater, a suburb of Pittsburgh. It was opened in 2016 by Vic Stahl, a native of neighboring town Beaver.

Vic’s makes its pizzas from scratch, and makes sure to use only the freshest ingredients. It specializes not only in traditional round pizza but also Sicilian-style square pizza, the latter of which is made on homemade focaccia bread. A reviewer on TripAdvisor said that this crust is “lighter and spongier than the round.”

The thing that Vic’s is perhaps best known for is its specialty pizzas. These pizzas are unique because the toppings on them are toppings you probably wouldn’t expect to find on a pizza, and probably won’t find on a pizza anywhere else. For example, there’s the Gyro, which is a white pizza topped with gyro meat, tzatziki sauce, lettuce, and tomato. And when I say “topped,” I literally mean “topped”; the toppings on this pizza are actually put on after the pizza has already been cooked, to make it more like eating an open-face sandwich. There’s also the Hunky Alley, which is a white pizza with caramelized onions, kielbasa, fried potatoes, and cheddar cheese (that’s basically a Pittsburgh-style breakfast right there.) There’s the Mexican, which is a white pizza with Mexican spices and ingredients such as jalapenos and chorizo. But perhaps one of their most popular specialty pizzas is the Italian Stallion. It is a white pizza with several Italian meats, and topped with lettuce, tomato, and Italian dressing after it’s been cooked. It’s basically an open-face Italian sub. A reviewer on Yelp said that the Italian Stallion is “perfectly cooked and very filling.” Below, you can see a video showcasing Vic’s. 

If you visit Vic’s website (hyperlinked above), you can check out their menu to see what other items they have. You can also order pizza online through the website.

Now, I’d just like to mention something before leaving; for the next several posts, I am going to be heavily plugging WQED, the company I interned at this past summer. They do a series called “Pittsburgh Eats,” where they make videos highlighting different restaurants in the Pittsburgh area and post them on their website and YouTube channel. Since the Pittsburgh Eats series is basically a free playlist full of Pittsburgh restaurants, I’m probably going to come up with topics based on the restaurants mentioned in the videos, and include the videos in these posts. The video above is from that series, and it’s where I got the idea for this post. At this point, I’m running out of places to get information from that’s not complicated, so this is all I’ve got for a while.

If you want to have some of the most imaginative pizza on the block, Vic’s Oven is the place for you.