Reeva Cafe y Cocina a la Leña — Restaurant in Portland

If you're gonna do pizza in this town, you might as well mix it up a bit and have some fun with it. That is exactly what Roberto is doing with Reeva. Sure you can get the standard cheese, pepperoni and even margherita, but the weekly specials are what makes Reeva stand out - stuff like the Mex-Incan, with chorizo, poblano peppers, mozzarella (or ricotta) and a Peruvian huancaina sauce. And the daily pizzaleada which features beans on their already awesome, chewy pizza crust. It's beans on pizza and it rules. Also shout out the espresso machine they have in the cart - it's great to have a quick option for an americano close by.

Anyway, Roberto and his son Damian are producing some of the best, most unique pizzas in a town that is overrun with...

The weekly special pizzas that Reeva make are a rare combination of complete technical mastery and ingenious new flavors.

Wood fired pizza is exceedingly hard to get right. The dough has to have the perfect hydration, the right ratios of flours, has to be proofed the right way-- and the margin for error is tiny. This dough is perfect: bubbly, airy, resilient. It's freaking delicious.

This becomes the perfect delivery method for some truly incredible ingredients that are, as far as I know, completely novel to the game: roasted poblano peppers, aji amarillo, queso fresco, chorizo, choclo, and the star-- huitlacoche, a kind of corn 'truffle.'

If you think you know pizza, check this spot out. It will open up the 4th dimension of...

I have mixed feelings about this food truck. This was our first time here. As far as the food goes, it was unique and superb. With that said, we waited...and waited...and waited...50 minutes for our food! We waited so long that when the food finally came we were famished, frustrated, and weren't even excited about it. Let it be noted that they were not busy at all and had a light trickle of customers while we waited. Another couple that came 15-20 minutes after us got their food before us. There were no apologies from staff or thanking us for our patience. Maybe we caught them on a bad day, but we won't be coming back unless they figure out how to turn food out in a...