"We craved joy and connection, excitement and silliness. Shuggie's captured that zeitgeist with its truck-driver-meets-drag-queen decor, with its voluptuous and cheeky serving dishes, with its throwback 80s hand chairs. Shuggie's was a symbol of our shift from the 2D, color-drained days of Covid to a world that was once again vivid and bright. It was the Emerald City in our journey through Oz."
"The pizza joint captured something else, too: what was then a growing current of climate awareness and movement to find solutions for a broken industrial food system. With their award-winning Ugly Pickle Co., Shuggie's co-owners chef David Murphy and Kayla Abe had already proven their sustainability cred. With Shuggie's, they were putting their money where our mouths were, remaking things like offal, dairy byproducts, and veggie scraps into abundant pizzas and snacks."
"At the end of August, Shuggie's Trash Pies + Natural Wine reopened, simply, as Shuggie's, a climate-positive supper club with a whole slew of creative new dishes that go beyond the pizza format. It's what we imagined the restaurant could be when we first started out, Abe tells me when I arrive for dinner, greeting me warmly and walking me to a table in the former Cheetah Room, which has been re-envisioned as a 1970s Vegas-style dining room"
Shuggie's delivered exuberant, nostalgic dining with truck-driver-meets-drag-queen decor, voluptuous serving dishes, and throwback 80s hand chairs that signaled a post-Covid shift toward vivid, joyful experiences. The restaurant built sustainability credentials through the owners' Ugly Pickle Co., transforming offal, dairy byproducts, and vegetable scraps into abundant pizzas and snacks. Amid a broader rollback of corporate environmental commitments, owners David Murphy and Kayla Abe doubled down on sustainability. At the end of August, Shuggie's Trash Pies + Natural Wine reopened as Shuggie's, a climate-positive supper club offering numerous creative dishes beyond pizza in a reimagined 1970s Vegas-style dining room.
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