Eminem-themed Detroit-style pizza pop up Slim Saucy’s hitting Ann Arbor
A devoted Detroit-style pizza maker is bringing his new pop-up idea, Slim Saucy’s, to Ann Arbor’s Properties Campus brewery this week.
Joe Maino’s Eminem-themed pizza service will likely be 5 p.m. Friday till round 9 p.m. or all of the meals sells out. They will be bought by the super-large sq. slice at $8 every.
The vegetarian “Responsible Conscience” has spinach, artichoke, banana peppers, Parmesan and roasted garlic alfredo sauce. For meat-eaters, “Yellow Brick Highway” has sausage, cherry peppers, caramelized onion, ricotta cheese, basil, Parmesan and a marinara sauce. “Sing for the Roni” is a basic Detroit-style pie with “cup and char” pepperoni, basil, Parmesan and marinara. Slim Saucy’s pop up can even promote cheese-y breadsticks together with your selection of marinara or ranch for dipping.
Most of those are nods to Eminem songs, however it’s only a tribute. There isn’t any official affiliation with the rapper.
Maino is a scholar of Detroit’s sq. fashion. Whereas he does not at the moment have his personal pizzeria, he is labored for and studied with a few of the finest, together with the late Shawn Randazzo of St. Clair Shores’ Detroit Type Pizza Co. He partnered with them whereas Randazzo was battling mind most cancers.
“I began on this journey of eager to have a Detroit-style pizzeria in 2013, which is shortly after I heard about Shawn Randazzo successful “World’s Greatest Pizza Maker” (in Las Vegas) and I used to be like, actually, we have now one thing particular right here?”
“I grew up in Eastpointe proper at Eight Mile and Gratiot, so I grew up consuming Cloverleaf so I knew that was good pizza,” he stated, including that when he tried Randazzo’s Detroit Type Pizza Co. he thought it was “on an entire different stage.”
“I befriended (Randazzo) and adopted him for years, and finally took his coaching program,” he stated.
Maino additionally spent a while opening a Detroit-style pizza idea in Poughkeepsie, New York, known as Hudson and Packard, however in the end determined to not transfer out of Michigan. Hudson and Packard’s co-founder Charlie Webb received second place within the “pan division” of the 2022 Worldwide Pizza Competitors in Las Vegas.
As for Slim Saucy’s, Maino stated his aim is to maintain doing pop-ups right here and there at Properties Campus as long as issues go nicely. He is hoping to open a brick-and-mortar Detroit-style pizzeria within the Ann Arbor space sooner or later, however it seemingly will not carry the identify Slim Saucy’s.
“That is 10 years of my expertise actually moving into to attempt to make the perfect model (of Detroit-style pizza) that I really feel anyone has most likely ever seen, that is my aim,” he stated, including that his product is a mix of his personal bread-baking expertise and dealing along with his mentor Randazzo.
Discover Slim Saucy’s 5-9 p.m. Friday at Properties Campus, 112 Jackson Plaza in Ann Arbor. The brewery opens at midday. For more information on future pop-ups, observe on Instagram @slimsaucys.
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