There are lots of Olympia Pizzas in the Seattle area. There’s one

There are lots of Olympia Pizzas in the Seattle area. There’s one on Capitol Hill, one atop Queen Anne, one in Roosevelt, one in Wallingford (and I may be missing others), and now one on Delridge Way in West Seattle. Of this pack of Olympias, only the Delridge and Wallingford stores are affiliated with one another.The Delridge store just opened, inspiring both enthusiasm and shock from residents of West Seattle’s overlooked eastern burgs. Enthusiasm because these neighborhoods are relatively underserved, both in terms of dine-in and delivery options for pie-wolfing (Pagliacci, for instance, has opted to red-line homes along and around Delridge despite the fact that more northerly restaurants will deliver there). Shocked because the Delridge Olympia opened on the 5600 block of Delridge, or smack in the middle of what’s probably the west side’s hottest crime zone (White Center excluded; although the 5500-5900 blocks of Delridge might actually surpass the overstigmatized WC in terms of violent incidents). As for the food, it’s very good, the salads piled high with cheese, and the pizza — cheese atop toppings — reminiscent of the Queen Anne Olympia’s (which is a little strange, given that the two have nothing to do with one another). So let’s hope for the best here: that this ballsy new restaurant serves as a catalyst for calmer days to come for that stretch of Delridge, a much-improved part of the west side that still could behave a little better.