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This two-month-old restaurant is probably the most buzzed-about pizzeria on the West

Published 7:00 am Monday, September 24, 2012

SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
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SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly
SEATTLE, WA FRIDAY OCT. 4, 2009 Delancey Pizza in Ballard Brandon Pettit unloads a pie from the wood burning oven at Delancey Pizza in Ballard. Pettit owns the restaurant with wife Molly Wizenberg. Photos by Kevin Casey/Seattle Weekly

This two-month-old restaurant is probably the most buzzed-about pizzeria on the West Coast right now, a small, built-with-spit-and-Scotch-tape place in Ballard whose construction accidents, no-show cooks, and opening-night jitters have been chronicled on its owner’s blog. Sounds like a common enough story these days, perhaps, but Orangette is one of the world’s best-known food blogs, and author Molly Wizenberg and her husband, Brandon Pettit, started building out the space just a few months before Wizenberg’s book, A Homemade Life, hit The New York Times’ bestseller list. Read Jonathan Kauffman’s full review. All photos by Kevin P. Casey.Published on October 7, 2009