The Pizza Vendors That'll Stuff You Till You Drop This Weekend

This is it, the final stretch leading to pizza mecca. Come the weekend, Beijing will be officially treated to not only the biggest pizza-related event that the city has seen this year, but the biggest pizza-related event it has seen ever. That's because as of late last week, we welcomed the 30th pizza vendor for our 2017 Pizza Festival in Wangjing Soho, September 16-17, 11am-8pm, marking a 30 percent increase on pizza-slingers last year.

What that means for you is more variety in your pizza choices, more opportunities to try new venues, and more people to add to the carnival-like atmosphere of this year's event, which luckily, just happens to be this year's theme! In alphabetical order, this year's vendors so far include:

• Alley Ale Taproom

• Annie's

• Baozza and Boxing Cat

• Dongli

• East Hotel

• Eatalia
  

• Eudora Station

• Fly Pizza & Hoodadak Chicken
  

• Four Ace

• Frost

• Gung Ho

• Hutong Pizza

• Jushi Pizza Just in Time!
  

• Legend Beer

• Leos Pizza

• Luga's
  

• Max Pizza

• Mr. Charcoal

• Peiping Machine

• Pie Squared

• Pizza Factory

• Pyro Pizza

• Q Mex

• Qiangan & Bonu Pizza College

• Radici

• Tiago and Casa Talia
  

• Tube Station

• VSports

• Whale Pizza

• Yummy Box

Other vendors in attendance will include:

• Aidi School

• Australian Natural Wines and Orchard Pig Cider

• B-13

• Billy's Fish & Chips

• BlaQ Coffee

• De Refter

• Flora Steak and Bar

• The Granary

• Jay Burrito

• Movo Gelato

• NHL

• PEC

• The One

• Vedett, Firestone Walker, and Boulevard
  

Moonglow Burlesque

Apart from delicious pizza in all of its glorious forms (and some new groundbreaking types for good measure), there'll be plenty of entertainment too. The weekend fun so far will include titillating performances from the girls of Moonglow Burlesque, a Chinese lion dance, energetic moves from square-dancing grannies, and even cheerleaders, pom-poms and all.

Stevie Mac & the Mac Daddies

As for the music, The Hunters will be on hand to energize the crowds on Saturday, whereas Stevie Mac & the Mac Daddies will be crooning soul favorites come Sunday, and jazz band Time Out will be teasing out twirls, foot-taps, and head-nods throughout both days as well as DJing from our very own DJ Cousin Kippy. Later into the party, once pizza delirium and perhaps a little beer has taken hold of your senses, DJ Bombaklat Lee and DJ Freshmoney will be on the decks courtesy of Club Mix, getting us moving with Carribean, reggae, and funk.

There'll be plenty of fun for the whole fam

Finally, we're almost completely sold out of presale tickets. The benefits of buying ahead of time are threefold: not only will you gain access to the pizza quicker than those buying tickets at the door, you'll also get priority entry should security decide to limit the flow of hungry patrons (we hope this doesn't happen, but sadly it has been the case in the past). Finally, you'll also receive a nifty little (actually, large) picnic blanket so that you and your friends and family can get comfy on the grounds should you want to find a quiet corner to eat your pizza in peace.

Be first to the pizza-y prize by reserving tickets ahead of time

And with that, we're off to go finalize proceedings to make this the biggest, best, and tastiest Pizza Festival in the history of the Beijinger, but in order to do that, we need your hungry mouths! Scan the QR codes below to come join in the fun.

Tickets for the event will cost RMB 25 at the door, or RMB 20 advance, which will also snag you a free picnic blanket. So, what are you waiting for, grab your tickets now to make sure that your future-self doesn't go hungry. Make sure to mark the dates in your calendar, snag your tickets early by scanning the QR codes below, and start making a mental note of all the pizza you will shove into your face from now until September so that you can better revel in the joy that is the Beijinger 2017 Pizza Festival. You'll need it to fuel your carnival costume-making imagination!

Scan/Extract the QR code above to reserve tickets in English

Scan/Extract the QR code above to reserve tickets in Chinese

Special thanks go out to this year's event space, Wangjing Soho, where all the action will take place September 16-17, 11am-8pm.

Photos: Uni You, the Beijinger, courtesy of the participants

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