Pizza Port Brewing Co. has opened a new location at San Diego’s Belmont Park. Visitors to the famous fun zone can now enjoy some of San Diego’s best pizza and craft beer between rides on the Giant Dipper roller coaster, or any of the other carnival style rides at the park.
Jesse Cardella is the CFO at Pizza Port and was on hand to enjoy the opening with a throng of invited guests who were treated to free beer and pizza, as well as unlimited rides on the attractions. Cardella sees the opening as a natural extension of the natural Southern California vibes that has made Pizza Port a San Diego favorite for 37 years. “Belmont reached out to us, they were working on a lot of fun stuff for their 100th anniversary and wanted to bring in a fun new pizza partner and brought us a design that was really exciting for us,” noted Cardella. “It was a concept that fit in really well for us as well as an opportunity for us to get our food and beer to a lot of fun-loving people around town.”
Jesse Cardella, CFO at Pizza Port
Cardella added that Pizza Port has now reached out beyond it’s surf and turf roots to expand beyond the surfline. “We started in making pizza in Solana Beach in 1987, and began brewing in 1992. We now have five locations in Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Carlsbad, San Clemente and are opening a new location in San Marcos. But, we now distribute beer all throughout the entire state of California as well as Arizona and Nevada.
At Belmont Park, the pizza is sold by the slice and is served hot out of the oven and is the perfect match for its cold local craft beers such as Swami’s IPA, California Honey Blonde Ale, and Chronic Ale. Pizza Port also features rotating seasonal beers that stay on tap for three months at a time.
Pizza Port has also been serving its beers at Petco park for eight years and is available at Pechanga Arena as well. But the Belmont Park location feels very natural for Pizza Port given its longtime beach roots. Cardella took the opportunity to savor his favorite beer Backyard Explorer IPA, a seasonal beer, which will soon be pulled off the tap. He seemed to relish the beer combined with the smell of hot pizza and the ocean air. “Good food and good beer brings good cheer, that’s our motto, and it fits in really well in this environment here at Belmont – ¬so this was a pretty easy decision!”
