Braving the clowns is totally worth it for pizza this good.

It's festival time in Edmonton and that means a delicious selection of lunch food choices for those of us lucky enough to work close to the square.  The only trouble with the most recent festival is that, well, it was the Street Performers Festival.  This festival has the ability to give me "the knot" (thanks Dietermans for coining the phrase and putting words to that awful feeling of awkward, make-it-stop, embarassment on behalf of others that plaques the pits of the stomachs of overly socially conscious people everywhere).

I was walking through the square the other day when it was on and watched an unsuspecting office worker strolling past a peformance.  The performer stopped, ran out of the circle he was performing in and chased them down so he could pummel them with some sort of fake balloon sword.  UGH.  All this to get a half-hearted chorus of chuckles from a crowd of kids and parents.

Anyways, Joel and I went back later looking for a snack that didn't involve sitting inside at any sort of restaurant and we found something that totally made it worth enduring the awkward.  Some genius ordered a wood fired pizza oven on wheels from freaking Italy and is now making awesome pizzas at festivals in Alberta. His oven is on a trailer.

We shared a BBQ chicken pizza and it was so good that I went back the next day in a thunderstorm to eat it again for lunch.

Braving the clowns is totally worth it for pizza this good, my friends.