Headies Pizza and Pour — Restaurant in Trinidad

My husband and I stopped by this great pizza place in Trinidad, CA. We had just finished 3 days of backpacking and were celebrating our next leg of adventure with pizza and beer.

Atmosphere: This place has a personal flare and charm along with with a clean and cozy dining room. Beautiful local photography on canvas cover the walls mixed with endearing Headies merchandise like their t-shirts and stickers. Their tables are adorned with painted pizzas on them which only stimulate the appetite while awaiting for your order.

Food: I'll get to the pizza (spoiler: delicious) but first I have to gush a bit about the salad. The house salad is by far the best I've ever had at a pizza place and honestly on par with most sit down restaurants. It has mixed greens of spinach and lettuce, sunflower seeds, tomatoes, black olives, chopped red bell pepper, croutons, and cheese. We chose the fig balsamic dressing which was a nice sweet addition to the base salad.

Now for the pizza! We ordered the Pineapple Express with normal cheese blend and added pepperoni. Great 16" pie with medium crust. Great amount of toppings and good combination of flavors. They got it all out in 20 minutes.

Beer Several beers on tap and a good selection of bottles and cans to boot. We opted to try a pale ale and pilsner on tap which were served in cold pint glasses and did not disappoint.

Great friendly and personal staff. Hospitality is hard to find sometimes but is in abundance here at this must...

Wife and I make it a point to try local pizza when traveling. We have had many different places, with varying results. Headies was on our list before we headed to Trinidad. The menu looked good. Called an order in for pickup. One 16" margherita and one 16" pepperoni. Quoted a 40 minute wait. No problem. Inside of the restaurant was cool, with a good vibe. So far, so good. Took the pizza back to the house. I won't say it was inedible, but it certainly wasn't anything I'd call 'good'. While we enjoy thin crust, that normally implies a bit of doneness of the crust. These were thin, but seemed undercooked. Flavor was less than what I'd expect from a store-brand frozen pizza. Just really generic. We each ate one slice, and then agreed we only finished them out of a sense of commitment to the money spent. There was discussion of putting them in the oven to finish cooking, but agreed the lack of flavor didn't constitute the waste of electric it would take to warm the oven. We originally planned to reheat them for the next day's lunch. They went into the trash instead. I'm impressed this place averages 4.7 stars. These reminded me of what I'd make as an eight-year-old on the kitchen counter with some tortillas, canned tomato sauce, and cheese from the...

Trinidad only offers a handful of places to eat, and very few places to grab a quick meal. You can go to the nearby grocery store to get something fast, but you’d be a fool not to try out Heddies Pizza instead. Offering pizza-by-the-slice, it’s no wonder this tiny shop stays busy all throughout the day. Tossing dough by hand and assembling pizzas with care, Heddies offers a legitimate product that goes further than cheap pizza. Sporting your traditional pepperoni and cheese is a staple, but specialized toppings like fig reduction glaze, garlic cream sauce, hand chopped bacon and house made pesto sauce are where you begin to strike gold in a little bay town like Trinidad. Things are really amplified when you consider they offer many vegan options, which i believe fills a necessary gap in the area. They have something special going on at Heddies Pizza. I would also like to mention that the staff was cool under pressure and polite. Fair warning, parking is limited [just like everywhere in Trinidad] and wait times for pickups can easily exceed 45mins [I waited an hour for my order]. But overall, as somewhat of a pizza expert, I was impressed and would easily return if I was...