Steel Pan Pizza

🇺🇸 MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES / HISTORICAL: Born at the start of the current Detroit-style pizza craze in Southern California, this food hall favorite still makes crave-worthy pies.

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES (Michigan)
📍 12885 Beach Blvd.,
Stanton, Orange County
🅿️ Ample parking in plaza
🥤 No Alcohol

EDITOR'S NOTE: Steel Pan Pizza is located inside the Rodeo 39 Public Market. If you wish to pair your pizza with beer, wine, or cocktails, those are available from other vendors.

📸 All photos by Jared Cohee
for Eat the World Los Angeles

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📆 Original Article 17 January 2021

Detroit-style pizza proves that the pizza emoji is not all-inclusive. In fact, it does not even begin to describe the experience of eating Detroit-style pizza. Humanity has a long way to go with such narrow-minded emoji options.

This new spot that opened up along with the recently renovated Rodeo 39 Public Market gets its name from the history of this style of pizza. The origins go back to cooking in industrial trays that were meant for other uses and had nothing to do with pizza, creating this unique shape and thickness.

Cheese is used not just on top, but also underneath and on the edges, giving the crust a crispy and slightly burnt feel. Inside, the middle is still chewy and soft.

The cuppy 'roni ($11.99, above and below) pie is a good place to start. Each pie is the same size, a square that is cut into four quadrants. The thin pepperoni cups catch a bit less grease than their thicker counterparts on that hate-filled pizza from New York, but as a whole this pie is fantastic.

Steel Pan uses good ingredients for everything they prepare, including the Caesar salad and fries that are slightly visible above and make a good addition for rounding out a meal.

While it just appears to be a fresh arugula pie, the Steel Pan style pizza ($13.99, below) is actually an overload of ingredients. Beneath that blanket of greens and Parmesan are grilled chicken and applewood smoke bacon as well as mushrooms. This pie uses a white sauce rather than red.

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