Credit: photo by John Anderson

Pinthouse’s pizza empire grew to three stores this year (welcome, Round Rock!) and, as is typical with anything these hop-prophets do, the masses went north along with it. Let’s face it, PHP could serve cold Domino’s on fancy Chinet and people would still flock there like migratory animals because their beer program is so ridiculously good. But bonus! Pinthouse’s pizza is, in fact, a downright excellent complement to any of the joint’s biting IPAs: fatty and cheesy with a generous portion of those little curled pepperonis filled with piping hot grease. Mmm, IPAs and cheese.

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