Nantucket-based Oath Pizza opens first Connecticut location in West Hartford – Hartford Courant

At Oath Pizza, it’s all concerning the crust. In 2015, Doug Ferriman experimented with crust recipes and got here up with one he thought was good: skinny, grilled and seared in avocado oil. With that crust as the muse, he opened the primary Oath Pizza, on Nantucket.

Since then, Oath has expanded to 18 areas, in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey and South Carolina. Its first Connecticut location opened July 14 in West Hartford’s Blue Again Sq.. One other Connecticut location, in Darien, will open within the coming months.

9 of these Oath areas on are on faculty campuses. “Schools like us as a result of we are able to feed everyone. We are able to make pizzas gluten free. We are able to make them dairy free. Every little thing we make is nut free,” mentioned Mila Trevithick, who has labored at eight Oath Pizza areas and is opening the West Hartford one.

Oath additionally prides itself on how briskly it could actually get out a pizza. “Loads of locations, it takes quarter-hour or so to get the pizza out. Our purpose every time is 3 minutes,” Trevithick mentioned.

That purpose is helped alongside by Oath’s conveyor-belt Ovention oven, which pushes out the pizza a few minute and a half after it’s positioned on the belt.

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Earlier than going into the oven, the crust — both that avocado oil-seared crust or a crust constituted of chickpeas, obtainable within the private dimension solely — is unfold with sauce, cheese, veggies and proteins. Then is it positioned on the belt. After it emerges, the pizza will get a topping of Grana Padano cheese, a sprinkling of contemporary basil shaken proper off the stem, and every other requested garnish. Then it is able to roll out the door.

Trevithick mentioned clients ought to maintain that velocity in thoughts when ordering with the Oath app. The Blue Again Sq. location is sort of solely takeout-oriented, with only a few tables.

Sauce might be tomato, basil pesto (with out pine nuts,) garlic oil or truffle unfold. Cheese choices are mozzarella mix, feta, ricotta, contemporary mozzarella or vegan. Proteins embrace pepperoni, Italian sausage, smoked bacon, roasted hen or Past crumbles. Veggie topping choices are artichoke hearts, child spinach, banana peppers, pineapple, inexperienced peppers, jalapenos, kalamata olives, mushrooms, pickled pink onion, pink onion, roasted cherry tomatoes, roasted garlic and roma tomatoes. Extra garnishes are balsamic, BBQ, crushed pink pepper, ranch, scallions, spicy aioli, sriracha and wild Italian oregano.

Pizzas are available in personal-sized skinny crust or large-size thick crusts. Giant thick crust pizzas begin at $21 and construct from there primarily based on the variety of toppings. Private cheese pizzas are $11 and up.

Sides like tacky garlic breadsticks ($8) and BBQ bacon breadsticks ($9) appear to be pizzas, however smaller and with completely different components. So does one dessert, chocolate chunk cookie pizza, which sells for $8 and has chocolate chunk cookie dough, ricotta, chocolate drizzle and powdered sugar, on a bit crust. Children’ pizzas are $7 to $8. Salads can be found.

Oath Pizza, 67 Memorial Street in Blue Again Sq. in West Hartford, is open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days per week. Discover extra at oathpizza.com.

Susan Dunne might be reached at sdunne@courant.com.