Last updated on 2011.10.10
Even if you don't like pizza, you've got to like the view from Dough Trader Pizza:
On one of our innumerable strolls and rolls around our new fair city, my wife and I noticed a big "PIZZA" sign off Jackson Boulevard. At first I thought it was part of Shoot the Bull or Sanford's Grub and Pub. But an intrepid adventure away from the main drag and up the hill a half block revealed Dough Trader Pizza.
Kristin Bell opened Dough Trader on July 4 this year. She remodeled the building that used to be Tom Bell's Tastee Freez. The view outside is wonderful, just high enough to clear the other buildings and offer a splendid sunset-emblazoned view of Lookout Mountain east of town.
We arrived just as twilight was chasing away the Indian summer heat, so folks were still gravitating toward the outdoor seats. By the time we got through our pizza, folks occupied most of the seats around us. (And in the span of our supper, I saw six of my French students. Just what kids need: go out for pizza and get their French teacher calling to them Bonsoir!)
The menu offers a list of reasonably priced pizzas with creative names and toppings. Our first Dough Trader pizza was the Jeffersonian, a Renaissance pizza with a lot of everything on it. I maintain that monkeys with typewriters couldn't produce a bad pizza. But I deeply appreciate the efforts of friendly people to make really good pizza. Dough Trader did that, and did it a cozy space with lots of character and a heck of a view outside. Like Charlie's in Yankton and Skipper's in Madison, Dough Trader Pizza brings great local pizza to Spearfish.
we went there recently. The pizza was good, but it took over an hour to get it. Unless they can solve this problem (others complained also), I see this operation as short-lived.