Neapolitan Food in Marietta, Georgia by Ruth Paget
Atlanta, Georgia has many local food chains worth seeking out when visiting the city. It is easy to have local chains with all the suburbs around the city.
Blue Moon Pizza off I-75 on Windy Hill Road north of Atlanta is a local chain that serves reliably delicious pizza and Greek salad.
My husband Laurent and I both love Margherita Pizza with tomato, mozzarella slices, and basil. Blue Moon’s tomatoes on this pizza are pickled cherry tomatoes. The basil was cooked in the sauce for Covid times. The mozzarella was gooey melted blobs that had a sweet flavor. All of this is everything I like in Margherita Pizza.
The large Greek salad was for me. I have made it a habit to order one before airplane trips as vitamin ordinance. Blue Moon’s Greek salad was just stellar, because it was full of pickled hot yellow peppers, tomatoes, pickled artichokes, red onion slices, feta cheese chunks, black salty olives, and torn romaine lettuce. This salad seems to help clear my sinuses.
Blue Moon placed a large herb seasoned pita bread in the bottom of this salad almost like a Lebanese or Syrian fattoush salad. The bread at Blue Moon is fresh, and let me soak up every drop of oregano-rich oil and vinegar dressing.
Southern Italy had ancient Greek settlement, which might explain why pizzerias often have Greek salads on their menu. (You can still see in Paestum south of Naples three ancient Greek Temples devoted to Poseidon, Hera, and Ceres.)
The Blue Moon Pizzeria retains Italian culture if not ancient Greek in any case, and I am glad to see that they do catering.
Blue Moon Pizza
2359 Windy Hill Road SE
#100
Marietta, Georgia 30067
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
