New Pizza Place Coming to the Town Center

Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza is coming to La Cañada.

Scheduled to open in July, the new 62-seat restaurant will be located at 990 Town Center Drive in the Town Center, near Sport Chalet, Chipotle, Panera Bread and The Habit Burger Grill.

“We are thrilled to be bringing Blaze Pizza to La Cañada,” Sandeep Bhakta, CEO of Sajha LLC franchisee group said in a press release. “The Blaze Pizza in Pasadena’s Theater District is doing great. As a new location in a neighboring town, we hope to quickly become part of the La Canada community, and make Blaze Pizza the go-to destination in town.” 

Blaze Pizza uses an assembly line format (similar to Chipotle Mexican Grill®), where guests choose from any of over 40 toppings to create artisan pizzas at lightning fast speed – all for about $7.00. Each Blaze Pizza restaurant makes its own dough from scratch using a recipe that requires a 24-hour fermentation period to produce its signature light, crisp crust. Guests watch as each dough ball is pressed into an 11-inch crust. Next, they travel down the assembly line to “co-create” a signature pizza or design one of their own.

Pizzas are “fast-fire’d” in a blazing-hot oven and ready in 120 seconds. Blaze Pizza’s menu also features signature salads, fresh lemonades, craft beer & wine and house-made S’more Pies. For pizza fans with specific dietary needs, Blaze Pizza offers gluten-free dough and vegan cheese.

Robert Stanley, director of community development for La Cañada, said Blaze Pizza applied for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for alcohol use earlier this month, and than asked the city to hold off on processing it. The business again requested the city move forward, but now Stanley said it will take several months to go before the planning commission. Blaze Pizza can open without the CUP as long as they don't sale alcohol, he said

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