Cheese
The classic plain pie - tomato sauce, pecorino romano, mozzarella. Sixteen inches, thin and crispy, like everything here.
Where to start
Ordering
How to get a pie.
16", thin and crispy, out of an apartment oven onto a steel. One per customer, because there is one oven. Every drop goes up on Hotplate with its day, pickup window, menu and prices — and it often sells out the day ordering opens.
See the current drop
Ordering, payment and pickup slots all live on Hotplate.
- Schedule
- Most weeks — the day moves
- Menu posts
- Menus post on Hotplate a few days ahead
- Where
- San Diego, CA 92107
- Size
- 16", thin and crispy
- Limit
- One pie per customer
- Payment
- On Hotplate — this site takes none
- Delivery
- None. Pickup only.
The pies
The usual line-up.
These turn up most drops, but pies come and go and prices change. Hotplate has exactly what's on the current drop.
PhotoPepperoni
Pepperoni
Crispy cup-and-char pepperoni, mozzarella, pecorino romano, tomato sauce base. The cups hold a little pool of fat and that is the entire point.
Pepperoni, Ricotta + Basil
Pepperoni, spoonfuls of ricotta and torn basil, with a side of hot honey to run over the top before the first slice.
Comes with hot honey
How a drop works
Four steps, one afternoon.
- 01
The drop posts on Hotplate
Day and pickup window change from drop to drop, so the alert list exists precisely so you do not have to keep checking.
- 02
Ordering opens, and it goes fast
Pick your pie and a pickup time. Payment happens on Hotplate — this site never touches your card.
- 03
One pie per customer
It is one oven in an apartment. The limit is what keeps the run reaching more than six people.
- 04
You collect it hot
Apartment pickup in 92107, in your slot, straight out of the oven and into your hands.
Drop alerts
Know before it posts.
One email when the next drop posts, with the day and the pickup window, so you're at the front of the queue instead of hearing about it after it sells out.