The March 2020 tornado struck an almost direct hit on East Nashville craft brewery Smith & Lentz, knocking out much of the building and brewing system. Shut down for most of a year, the brewery reopened with a new secret weapon — pizza! This isn’t your ordinary reheated frozen taproom pie. Smith & Lentz recruited former Rolf and Daughters chef Chris DeJonge to design their new pizza program, and his handcrafted wood-fired pizzas augmented with traditional and exotic toppings have quickly become neighborhood staples. You can pay two bucks more to have your pie brushed with garlic butter, oregano chili flake and grated Parm, and you should.
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