World Pizza: What’s Vegetarian Editorial Review

World Pizza is an all-vegetarian pizza shop in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, and you can order anything on the menu without checking for meat. The kitchen sells slices and whole pies on house-made crust and sauce, and the board includes a vegan option for anyone who skips dairy.

Start with the potato slice, the signature item at $4.95. The kitchen roasts red potatoes and lays them over house-made red sauce with Italian blue cheese, rosemary, and garlic. A whole 16-inch Roasted Red Potato pie costs $34.49, and a 14-inch pie costs $29.49. If that combination sounds odd, order the cheese slice at $4.25 first. The cheese slice uses whole-milk mozzarella and the same house sauce, so you get a baseline for everything else.

The specialty pies lean on feta and fresh toppings. The Classic Greek stacks artichoke hearts, feta, and kalamata olives. The Margherita pairs fresh tomatoes and feta with basil, and the Roasted Mushroom puts roasted mushrooms on the same feta-and-basil base. The Dragon swaps in sweet roasted red peppers. The Wasabi-Pineapple pie adds roasted red peppers to a sweet and tangy wasabi-pineapple topping and costs less than the others at $30.99 for 16 inches. A Baked Egg pie rounds out the list with a sunny-side-up egg, herbs, and black pepper.

Vegans have two paths. The Classic Vegan is red sauce with no cheese and the toppings you choose, $23 for a 16-inch pie. The Dream Vegan combines artichoke hearts, fresh tomatoes, and red onion, and you can add Field Roast vegan Italian sausage for an extra charge. Field Roast also supplies the pepperoni, which the shop sells for $4.75 a slice on mozzarella and as a whole pie. I found no statement about separate prep for the vegan pies, so ask at the counter if you avoid dairy strictly.

For gluten, the shop offers a build-your-own 10-inch pizza, $23 for the cheese version. The ordering menu says the kitchen is gluten-friendly and also handles wheat, so anyone with celiac disease should treat the kitchen as shared space.

The sides stay short. A giant chocolate chip cookie costs $4, and the shop sells hand-crafted culinary salts at $10 each, including Organic Garlic Salt and a Mama-Dragon blend with jalapeno, habanero, and ghost peppers. Drinks include Mexican Coke, San Pellegrino Limonata, root beer, and a fresh Americano.

Plan around the hours. World Pizza opens Tuesday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. The shop closes Sunday and Monday. You can call (206) 682-4161 or order pickup and delivery through the shop’s online ordering page. I checked the shop’s own menu page and found it blank, so I read the full menu on the ordering page.

A 16-inch pie serves three to four adults, and whole pies run from $24 to $34, so a pie fits a group dinner better than a solo lunch. For one person, slices work at $4 to $5 each. The shop sits at 672 South King Street. Go on a Friday if you want the longest open window and a warm slice of the potato pie.