Pizza experiment

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It’s interesting to me that while most people wouldn’t consider drinking beer with pasta dishes, many articles and experts on food-and-wine matching suggest beer for pizza. But red-sauced pastas are very similar in flavor to red-sauced pizzas. So why drink wine with one and beer with the other? And when you do see wine recommendations for pizza, it’s almost inevitably Italian Chianti. Nothing wrong with that, but it seems to me as much a knee-jerk reaction as the requirement to drink white wine with fish — all fish.

Why not experiment? Café Divino in Old Town Tacoma offers $6 pizzas and $6 glasses of Chardonnay, Cabernet and Shiraz 3-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Mix and match and tell me what you discover.

[Cafe Divino, 2112 N. 30th St., Tacoma, 253.779.4226]

LINK: Weekly Volcano's restaurant guide