Fireside Pies, Plano
5717 Legacy Dr # 110
Plano, TX 75024
(972) 398-2700
I am not a pizza aficionado.
I like pizza, sure, its good honest food. Dough, sauce, meat, cheese. How can you truly not like that?
If you dont like it I would guess this is the doing of your mother or father who experimented with some crazy
pizza recipe or contraption or
the end result of a college party or road trip gone horribly wrong.
What ever the case, go try it again.
If you think your tastes are too refined for mere peasant food, then look no further.
Does plebeian pizza place poorly on your list? Please patronize this pie proprietor for pleasant pizza and pristine panache.
The Plano/Frisco border is a trendy enough place as it is and that usually bothers some people. Not me. I am not dancing around in a European car
drinking designer water anyway. I just want some good eating and for the most part not worry about dealing with somebody drowning a bucket
of lettuce in an equally large bucket of ranch dressing. We decided to go to Fireside one Saturday night a while back and were horribly thwarted.
We read up on the place on the way there and was warned of an hour or more wait time on Saturday after 6pm. NOPE, not happening.
A command decision that would make Captain Kirk proud was made to table that choice and come back to it at a later date. A few days passed and we went after work.
It was very nice and yes, trendy. Servers wore nice black outfits knew the menu very well and worked fast to get us chowing down. A nice sound system pumped out some David Byrne and David Bowie and Eric Clapton. Normally I wouldn’t care that much about Clapton, but it was a good song.
A full bar was jumping on a Thursday evening and after we got there the placed filled up very fast. Still not eating much meat, we wanted to
see what they had for the vegetarian wannabes to nibble on. We ordered a bruschetta just to see what their version entailed and a pie they called
the PETA PIE. The Bruschetta was a nice small twist on the dish. Costini, grilled and smeared with goat cheese, topped with juicy tomatoes,
spinach balsamic vinegar and pinion nuts.
Bruschetta @ Fireside Pies, Plano
The PETA Pie was good, greasy, but good. It had a cheese mix that comes standard on all pies, of
4 kinds of cheese.
from the website
Our hand-stretched pies are pecan wood-fired and bathed in fire-roasted pie sauce with a four cheese blend (Mozz,Fontina, Fontinella & Parmesan Reggiano).
There was also a roasted red pepper and charred tomato sauce along with more pinion nuts and portabello mushrooms.
I am not sure where they grease came from on the pizza, maybe the fontinella or the mozz(arella), but it did play a little havoc on my stomach.
Really don’t know if I can call that a bad thing. OK I can, and next time I need to just make sure to drink more water or eat more bread
to soak up that grease somehow. It was so good I can’t truly be mad at it.
Peta Pie @ Fireside Pies, Plano
The Sonoma goat cheese is very good and not like the stuff I get at the store and was a very good addition to both dishes.
I was only able to snap photos with the iPhone but will have to do them justice with some nice pics the next time we stop in.
We are definitely going back and trying another pie of a different kind.
The place had a good vibe to it and was not to overcrowded with yelling tables. They also have a wine list which I
not being a wine expert could not make a judgment on. Gimme a year and Ill be there…
Hushed conversations from nicely dressed people at the bar and kids with families sprinkled the place and made it feel like a nice spot for a first date or a lunch with co-workers after some good news.
So again, if you like pizza and think that you can handle being cool enough for an Old Navy ad, stop in.
