Restaurant Review: Coal Fire
I’ve had coal-fired pizza a couple of times before, but the place that served it (on Belair Road) lasted only a handful of months before closing.
My wife works in Howard County and she had noticed in recent weeks that a new business was coming to the area and the name was Coal Fire. She confirmed that it was indeed a coal-fired pizza restaurant.
It opened this past Wednesday and we had pizza from there Thursday evening. According to my wife, who picked the pizza up, the place was full already. They have just been open for dinner but they will also be open for lunch soon. The don’t deliver for quality reasons.
My wife started her meal off with a Coal Fire salad, which includes Applewood bacon. They serve oven baked wings and extras including onion rings, calamari, fries, and crab meat mac and cheese. Besides pizza they serve sandwiches.
They have 3 types of sauces for their pizza – Classic, Spicy and Signature. Signature includes a mix of the other two. They serve 12″ and 16″ pies. They also suggest no more than 2 toppings because of the crust’s thinness. THey have a Margherita Pizza as well as their Signature, which includes red peppers, red onion and signature sauce.
The thing about all their pizzas that I noticed with our plain cheese one was the freshness of the mozzarella. Coupled with the sauce and the crispness and taste of the crust, the mozzarella was great.
We will definitely be going back to Coal Fire. I’m interested in some of their sandwiches as well as some of their extras.
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Information:
Coal Fire
Located in Shipley’s Grant
5725 Richard’s Valley Road
Ellicott City, MD 21043
410.480.2625
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This place is AMAZING. Anybody who says otherwise clearly doesn’t know good food and shouldn’t be allowed to eat ever again. The pizza is the best in town. If you don’t like this pizza then you clearly don’t know pizza. Signature sauce is to die for. The wings with the amazing onions is out of this world. The salad with the bacon is one of the best salads I’ve ever had.
I’ve already been back numerous times. The steak sandwich is one of my favorites. My latest meal was the white clam pasta. WOW.
The atmosphere is great. Good for families but also good for a night out to dinner.
The waitstaff I encountered were personable and were picking up the menu very fast. The bartenders are good looking too.
Do yourself a favor, go to Coalfire.
Comment by Jimmie Woods — April 27, 2009 @ 6:12 pm
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We live right next to Coal Fire so we tried it tonight. The service was horrid; dirty plates stacked on our table that I had to ask the server to get rid of after she walked by them a half-dozen times, iced tea with 3 ice cubes in it (and not even a thought given to a refill), the pizza came out before the other food and we had no plates (I had to go find some). The pizza was “ok”. Good sauce, burnt bottom. The sandwich…oh GOD the sandwich. I had the brisket sandwich. I lack the ingredients in my house to make a sandwich THIS SHITTY because all I have is FRESH bread and TASTY lunchmeat. It consisted of 1/4″ of fatty, dry, room temperature meat with a pathetic money-shot of sauce that covered only part of the dry, chewy, room temperature bun. It was cut in half and tossed on a little plate with nothing else. It was one of the worst, blandest, driest, chewiest, shittiest excuses for a sandwich I have ever seen or tasted. NOT WORTH $8.whatever. Drive to Ledo Pizza up the street. Big, hot, delicious, loaded cheesesteak on a perfectly toasted bun for $3.00 less. AND the waiter will even check on you and offer refills!
Comment by Mike — June 26, 2009 @ 9:42 pm