These Are the 30 Pizza Vendors That Will Feed You 'Til You Drop at This Weekend's Pizza Festival

Tom Arnstein | Sep 15, 2017 12:30 pm | Add a comment | 5223 reads

This is it, the final stretch leading to pizza mecca. Come the weekend, Beijing will be officially treated to not only the biggest pizza-related event that the city has seen this year, but the biggest pizza-related event it has seen ever. That's because as of late last week, we welcomed the 30th pizza vendor for our 2017 Pizza Festival in Wangjing Soho, September 16-17, 11am-8pm, marking a 30 percent increase on pizza-slingers last year.

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What that means for you is more variety in your pizza choices, more opportunities to try new venues, and more people to add to the carnival-like atmosphere of this year's event, which luckily, just happens to be this year's theme! In alphabetical order, this year's 30 pizza vendors include:

Alley Ale Taproom
Annie's
Boxing Cat and Baozza
Dongli
East Hotel
Eatalia
Eudora Station
Fly Pizza & Hoodadak Chicken
Four Ace
Frost
Gung Ho! Pizza
Hutong Pizza
Jushi Pizza Just in Time!
Legend Beer
Leos Pizza
Luga's
Max Pizza
Mr. Charcoal
Peiping Machine
Pie Squared
Pizza Factory
Pyro pizza
Q Mex
Qiangan & Bonu Pizza College
Radici
Tiago and Casa Talia
Tube Station
VSports
Whale Pizza
Yummy Box

Other vendors in attendance will include:

Aidi School
Alfa Romeo (Beijing Haipai)
Australian Natural Wines and Orchard Pig Cider
B-13 Ice Cream
Billy's Fish & Chips
BlaQ Coffee
Bruno Caffé
Cheers Wines
De Refter
Drinking Buddies
Flora Steak and Bar
Fusion Shanghai International Trading Co.,Ltd
The Granary
Jay Burrito
König Ludwig Weissbier
Move Gelato
NHL
PEC
Ponty Winery
Asahi Super Dry and Calpis
The One
Vedett, Firestone Walker, and Boulevard
Viola Premium Italian Beer
Zeffer

Moonglow Burlesque

Apart from delicious pizza in all of its glorious forms (and some new groundbreaking types for good measure), there'll be plenty of entertainment too. The weekend fun so far will include titillating performances from the girls of Moonglow Burlesque, a Chinese lion dance, energetic moves from square-dancing grannies, and even cheerleaders, pom-poms and all.

As for the music, The Hunters will be on hand to energize the crowds on Saturday, whereas Stevie Mac and the Mac Daddies will be crooning soul favorites come Sunday, and jazz band Time Out will be teasing out twirls, foot-taps, and head-nods throughout both days as well as DJing from our very own DJ Cousin Kippy. Later into the party, once pizza delirium and perhaps a little beer has taken hold of your senses, DJ Bombaklat Lee and DJ Freshmoney will be on the decks courtesy of Club Mix, getting us moving with Carribean, reggae, and funk.

Finally, we're almost completely sold out of presale tickets. The benefits of buying ahead of time are threefold: not only will you gain access to the pizza quicker than those buying tickets at the door, you'll also get priority entry should security decide to limit the flow of hungry patrons (we hope this doesn't happen, but sadly it has been the case in the past). Finally, you'll also receive a nifty little (actually, large) picnic blanket upon entry so that you and your friends and family can get comfy on the grounds should you want to find a quiet corner to eat your pizza in peace.

And with that, we're off to go finalize proceedings to make this the biggest, best, and tastiest Pizza Festival in the history of the Beijinger, but in order to do that, we need your hungry mouths! Scan the QR codes below to come join in the fun.