Galactic Pizza is a quaint little pizza place in Minneapolis. There are several quaint little pizza places in town, but this one is special because they serve vegan pizza. As in vegan cheese, vegan sausage and vegan pepperoni. So of course I hopped at the chance to check it out.

The style of the restaurant is kind of a mish-mash. We sat outside and were shielded by an umbrella made of fake hoola skirt grass. The service was very good and we ordered vegan garlic cheese bread. Super yummy, though, as with many cheeses, this cheese had some melting issues. We ordered a pizza of half vegan cheese, half vegan “old school”. The Old School contains tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, sausage, button mushrooms, organic green peppers, and organic red onions. It was pretty good. Not amazing, and not bad. It wasn’t quite as delectable as Este Pizza’s vegan cheese in Salt Lake, but it’s nice to know we have another vegan pizza place near by. The vegan sausage was pretty tasty. The vegan pepperoni was ok, but I don’t think I really liked pepperoni when I ate meat, 14 years ago. So perhaps I should try different toppings next time. Most of the pizzas they offer can be made vegan or vegetarian, which is great. And they have quite a few interesting options to choose from.

You can check out their menu here: http://www.galacticpizza.com/menu/

The website is kind of cooky, kind of funny. It’s the second restaurant in a row I’ve gone to which has a superhero theme on their site. The first was The Bad Waitress. This is also the first year I attended Comic-Con and I’m in the process of writing a comic book right now (don’t hold your breath). I’m just bombarded by superheroism these days.

Galactic Pizza
www.galacticpizza.com
2917 Lyndale Ave S
Uptown Minneapolis, MN

Side note on vegan cheese: we may not have to put up with the less than ideal vegan cheeses much longer. There is a company in Brooklyn called Dr. Cow creating some apparently heavenly gourmet vegan cheeses. You know, cheeses that come in a wheel instead of a plastic sleeve. And they’re raw! They use old methods of cheese making but use it for making nut cheeses like aged cashew. Apparently the few stores that sell these nut cheeses can’t keep them in stock! Hopefully they’ll be spreading their wings soon so we can all enjoy some gourmet nut cheeses. Wine and cheese parties, here we come! Read more about it in this month’s issue of VegNews.