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Finishing one story from the Capitol Hill pizza boom — plus A Pizza Mart tale on First Hill

Meltdown tossed it in after less than a year of business at Pine and Minor

Meltdown tossed it in after less than a year of business at Pine and Minor

It’s true, Reddit, we did leave a storyline incomplete from the great Capitol Hill pizza boom of 2016. Let’s finish the story and, yes, start a new one with yet more pizza coming to a VERY TALL building on First Hill.

“If it would have taken off it would have been great,” Josh Carrigan tells CHS about the rise and fall of his Meltdown Pizza which was born and died in the Minor and Pine building during the 2016 boom in pie joints. “I just said, ah fuck it, I’m not happy anymore.”

Carrigan wasn’t new to Capitol Hill food and drink. For seven years, he has been part of building the no frills Still Liquor into a popular place to drink like a grownup beneath Melrose Market. Carrigan said it quickly turned out “the pizza market was saturated” so he pulled the plug early on the project and hit the slopes for a winter of snowboarding. He still holds the lease and says a new project is lined up for the space. More about that soon. It won’t be a pizza joint.

A Pizza Mart pie, coming to First Hill (Image: A Pizza Mart)

A Pizza Mart pie, coming to First Hill (Image: A Pizza Mart)

The next new pizza investment in the area will instead come at the base of a 31-story apartment tower on First Hill.

A fifth location of the A Pizza Mart pizza bar family has been building out its space in the Cielo Apartments at 800 Seneca and is close to opening. The 27-year-old pizza player is known for its liquor and pie combination. As Carrigan notes, it joins a saturated market but, with 30 stories of apartments above it, A Pizza Mart First Hill might come with a built-in customer base.

 

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SteevDeej
SteevDeej
6 years ago

Wanted to support Meltdown. It was never a matter of being over-saturated market. But rather the pizza was too thick, burnt and cold all at the same time. Dino’s sucks too! Sorry but if it’s not good to eat?

RWK
RWK
6 years ago

Seems that “Meltdown” was a good name for the place, as that’s exactly what happened.

GregoryH
GregoryH
6 years ago

I have to say, too, that the one time I had a slice at Meltdown it was one of the least satisfying experiences in my 11 years eating pizza in seattle. If you can’t match the the mediocre experience of a slice from Pags, you have no business in the pizza business, doubly so in a neighborhood where a multitude of pizza options abound.

jz
jz
6 years ago

Dino’s is in fact very good.