Seize the Slice (2445 Hilyard Street) is tucked away in Eugene’s Amazon neighborhood — a dedicated pizza joint from the same folks who brought us Seize the Café. Owner and chef Chad Fuhreck had been slinging the occasional pizza since first adding a wood-fired oven to the space adjacent to The Café in 2022, but The Slice has since become its own dedicated project.
“It’s pretty affordable food for what it is — we care a lot about our quality and what we put out,” says Scott H., a pizza chef at Seize. A popular pie is Sweet Heat — donned with Italian sausage, sweet peppers, hot peppers and red onion. Scott’s favorite is The Lovely Rita, Seize’s standard margarita pizza. Can’t go wrong with a classic. In addition to its rotating pizza menu, Seize offers salad, beer, wine and house-made ice cream. Checking back in often is warranted. “We have a lot of creative liberty here, and we use it,” Scott says.
Since opening in 1978, the slices at Sy’s New York Pizza (1211 Alder Street) have only gotten bigger. The pizza joint adjacent to the University of Oregon and 13th Avenue is open until 3 am, claiming the hearts of out-too-late 20-somethings on the weekends and neighborhood regulars the rest of the week. In addition to its made-to-order slices, Sy’s claims additional charm with its homemade ranch and a long-standing pebble ice machine that brings people in asking for “the good ice.”…