Northeast Minneapolis Punch Pizza

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The commotion of the new Punch restaurant opening up on Grand Avenue (769 Grand Ave.) is beginning to settle down – somewhat. The festivities began at our VIP preview night on September 13...

Punch Olympics 2008 In the spirit of this year’s summer Games we decided to have our own version of the Olympics.  The Johns spent hours planning the events and coming up with specific rules and scoring system.  The events were the following: Box folding, bussing, cashiering, pizza making and...

Our 6th Punch Neapolitan Pizza restaurant is set to open Monday, September 15th at 769 Grand Avenue in St. Paul. As we do with most Punch store openings, Highland Park being the only exception, we (the owners, managers and employees) tile the oven...

One thing John and I have been concerned about is what happens to our pizza quality when it is taken away in boxes and not eaten relatively soon.  While fast food pizzas are literally designed to sit in a box, authentic neapolitan pizza is meant to be enjoyed right after it comes out of the...

John and I have been working over the last year to start importing buffalo mozzarella directly from a cheese maker in Naples who we thought made the best cheese we have sampled on our many trips there.  After filling out an incredible number of forms on both continents to get us and our cheese...

Last night we invited all entrants in the photo contest to come by for some pizza and beer on the house.  John and I enjoyed meeting the talented photographers that we were lucky enough to have shoot our pizzerias.   We snapped a few shots ourselves that we posted on our flickr account.   John...

We had a hell of a time selecting the winners from all the great entries.  Again, we are so appreciative of the effort and creativity of the pizza-loving professional and amateur photographers in the Twin Cities so we want to have a special night at Punch to celebrate all the entrants and...

We chose the photo by Greg Swan of our Eden Prairie kitchen in the evening as a finalist in the Ovens of Punch category. Punch Pizza Eden Prairie, originally uploaded by PerfectPorridge.com...

Michael Novak’s camera phone shot of our northeast Minneapolis crew is a finalist in the photo contest and a very fun one to boot!  He titled the shot, “Great Staff” and we could not agree with him more.  We also really liked how he got himself in in the foreground.  It seems like these...

Stacie was chosen as one of the finalists for the Ovens of Punch category.  We are glad to see another young entrepreneur in the contest (truth is, we are beyond young now!)...

We put genericname’s camera phone photo of our Hennepin pizzeria in the final group because his shot was kind of spooky.  Check out how the Pulcinella mask and the subject’s eyes and nose line up and how the mask seems to be staring at the camera.  The shadows of the nose of the mask on the...

We got an invite from Sean Tubridy (Tubes) to join his Save Polaroid Flickr group, which we happily did. The Polaroid Corporation is discontinuing the production of all instant film and Sean has made it his mission to save instant film...

We chose Jen’s picture of our original pizzeria’s oven as a finalist.  We love how she captured the years of soot on the brick and the intense focus of the pizza cook.  The cook is putting the finishing touches on the pizza by doing what we call “doming”.  Our custom ovens have an...

One surprise about this contest (amongst many great ones!) is how unique and beautiful phone camera pictures can be.  Their brilliant colors and blurry images create a surreal feel.   We chose J D’s photo of our Wayzata pizzeria a finalist for those reasons.  The oven tiles, yellow wall and...

We chose Leslie’s picture of our Toscana as one of the best pizza shots.    When we looked at the best Punch Pizzas category shots in this contest, it was interesting to note that the Toscana and the Margherita DOC were the best looking pizzas on “film.”  The Toscana is particularly...

We chose Aaron Landry’s photo of our Margherita DOC as a finalist in the Punch Pizzas category.  However, more importantly to us, we want to thank him for his helpful critique (or blast) of our outdated no-photo policy on his blog.  It is truly amazing to see the number of great and creative...