IT'S A PIZZA BLOG

In the kaleidoscope of pizza styles, California's culinary scene has given birth to a unique and tantalizing creation – California-style pizza. While our crust shares a resemblance with the thin and crispy tradition of a classic hand-tossed pizza, what truly sets it...

Nothing is more relieving than coming home from a long workday and knowing you don't have to cook dinner tonight.  Most households hold this glorious day for Fridays, typically making it a pizza night.  Now you have to decide, carry out or dine in? Everyone has a...

Pairing alcohol with certain types of food is nothing new. The idea has been around for centuries: red wines with steak and white wines with fish. It only makes sense that pairing pizza with beer is a great combination. The flavors can enhance and contrast, making the...

Ultimate California Pizza has a lot of wild pizza topping combinations on our menu. In our attempts to create the perfect pizza picky people love, we have come across many interesting combinations for many people who are picky about different things. So how can we say...

Ultimate California Pizza is well known across the Grand Strand for some of the best pizza available, even more so for some of the best and most unique ingredient combinations you can put on top of the round dough.  With offerings like the Berkeley, High Sierra, and...

Perfect sized to eat with your hands, packed with flavor, and ideal to be consumed while watching sporting events, Chicken Wings have a relatively short history when compared to some of the other pop culture foods in the United States. This month we focus on where...

You will find black olives on several pizzas at Ultimate California Pizza. They are fruity, earthy, and smooth and provide an excellent level of sophistication to a pizza. In a meat conversation, black olives belong. But they fit just as well sprinkled over spinach,...

Green Peppers, Red Peppers, Banana Peppers, More! Cherry Peppers, Jalapeno Peppers, Peppers Galore! Colorful, flavorful, and full of health-friendly properties, peppers in some form or another are the favorite spice all over the world and they are commonly used in all...

Sub, hoagie, hero, po-boy, or grinder… whatever you call it, these large, long bread rolls served hot or cold and stuffed with delicious combinations of meats, cheeses and vegetables are the perfect meal. This portable, easy-to-eat sandwich that requires no utensils...

As I sit here staring at a very cool-looking surfboard hanging on the wall next to some elegant black and white photos, I can't help but wonder why this delicious Santa Cruz pizza is round. I know it isn't the main concern. Most are enthralled by the Garlic Herb Extra...

Cheddar cheese isn't the type of cheese one usually thinks about when you think about pizza. Instead, most people immediately think about mozzarella. That gooey, stringy, creamy, and fresh white cheese is typically used on pizza. So why are we writing a blog on...

It's that time of year.  New Year's Resolutions, diets, weight loss goals, bucket lists, etc., are clogging up all of our social feeds.  You can't avoid it.  There is something about the new year that screams, "it's time to remake myself." How many times have you...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that cheese is a critical ingredient at Ultimate California Pizza.  There are eight different types of cheese on our menu and it finds its way onto 88% of our menu items. Sometimes you will even find more than one type of cheese on an...

At Ultimate California Pizza we pride ourselves on serving the perfect pizza that picky people love! But we also put a large amount of our focus on big, bold flavor combinations. While the ingredients and cheeses that go on top of your pizza are a big part of that...

I spend a large amount of time on the internet. It is what I do. I monitor multiple Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google accounts. It is an amazing career centered on helping people find their way to our food. It truly doesn’t get any better than this. I am a very...