Christmas Eve, Free for All
Every Christmas Eve, our doors stay open and the pizzas stay free. Anyone who walks in gets fed, no questions asked. It's our way of saying thank you to the city that made us.
Our Story
How a passion for local ingredients and community became Thunder Bay's favourite pizza.
Who We Are
Thunder Bay's Local Pizza Shop
We're a pizza shop on Red River Road in Thunder Bay. For years now we have been hand-stretching dough and building recipes from the most interesting local ingredients we can find.
We are a tight-knit team dedicated to making the best pizzas we can, the kind we like to bring home to our own family and friends. We are well known for being a dedicated member to our community, and that is a cornerstone of our business.
Our motto has always been: “Let's Eat Together” and to us that statement means a lot of things, and we mean them all.
Our Most Iconic Pizza
The Perogie Pizza
Our first winter in business, we hit a problem: the local produce we'd built our menu around was suddenly out of season. We needed a winter pizza, something that leaned into the local goods that didn't disappear when the snow showed up.
So we started with what Thunder Bay had: hearty, hands-down comfort food. Perogies. We tried every batch we could find in the city until we landed on Lucy Q's. They were the best. We paired them with the best bacon in town, from The Commissary, and the Extra Old Gouda we've always loved from Thunder Oak Cheese Farm.
The result was the Perogie Pizza. People tried it, and people kept coming back. Today it's our most-ordered pizza, and as far as we're concerned, it's symbolic of what pizza in Thunder Bay can be.
Awards & Recognition
Thunder Bay's Favourite Pizza
For over a decade, Eat Local Pizza has been voted the Best Pizza in Thunder Bay across multiple platforms and reader polls. We've collected awards for everything from business excellence to community engagement to, the one we care about most, just making really good pizza.
When bands and celebrities roll through Thunder Bay for a show, they call us. The signed poster you see here is from the Barenaked Ladies, one of many Canadian touring acts we've fed over the years.
Being the pizza of Thunder Bay isn't a title we gave ourselves. It's something this city has handed us, year after year, by ordering, voting, recommending, and showing up. We don't take it for granted. We earn it again every shift.
☀ Seasonal
The Margherita Pizza
The Pizza of Summer.
Some pizzas are about bold toppings and big flavours. The Margherita is about restraint, letting a handful of perfect ingredients speak for themselves.
We only make this pizza when DeBruin's Greenhouses, our long-time tomato and herb partner down at 3033 Hwy 61, has fresh basil and cherry tomatoes ready, and when Thunder Oak Cheese Farm's cheese curds are on hand to top it. That gives us a narrow summer window each year. Once their seasons end, ours does too.
Market sauce base, fresh basil, cherry tomatoes, Thunder Oak cheese curds, mozzarella. It arrives when summer arrives, and when summer goes, it goes with it. Follow us on Facebook to know when it's back.
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Our Community
“Let's Eat
“Let's Eat
Together.”
Thunder Bay didn't just buy our pizza for over a decade, it built this place. So we show up for it, every day, in whatever way we can.
Feeding Volunteers from Coldest Night of the Year
Donations & Sponsorships
School fundraisers, community events, sports teams, food bank drives. If it brings Thunder Bay together, you'll usually find a stack of our pizzas in the back.
A Thunder Bay Classic
The George's Market Sausage Pizza
We met the Thompson family at George's Market right before the world shut down in March 2020.
A few weeks later, with everyone locked down and businesses scrambling, a box showed up at our shop. The Thompsons had sent us a batch of their Pizza Sausage as a gift, something to brighten the days during a hard stretch. We tasted it and immediately knew what to do with it.
We built a pizza around it: rosemary cream sauce, thick-cut mushrooms, roasted red pepper, balsamic glaze, and George's Pizza Sausage front and centre. Then we sent it back to them. They loved it. We've been making it on our menu ever since.
Two Thunder Bay businesses, each doing what they do best, came together on one pizza. The George's Market Sausage Pizza is now a Thunder Bay classic.
