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Papa Murphy’s Take and Bake Pizza in Tyler

March 20th, 2011

Papa Murphy's in Tyler Texas
Papa Murphy’s holds claim to what many consider the best pizza in Tyler. Although it is true you have to bake it yourself they are unmatched in the quality and quantity of ingredients in their pizza. Regardless of a minor requirement such as baking Papa Murphy’s outdoes conventional pizza places with ease, the take N bake business model lowers the over head of the franchise allowing more funding and care to go to the food.

Papa Murphy’s even ventures outside the pizza realm and offers take and bake lasagna, cookie dough or even cinnamon wheels. You can conveniently throw a batch of cookies into your already heated oven while you eat your pizza, giving you a perfectly timed sequence of freshly baked pizza followed by delicious warm cookies.

Papa Murphy’s has a menu that is truly exceptional, pizza is hardly the same once you’ve experience the glory of what its potential in Papa Murphy’s selections. To begin with the signature pizzas such as The Cowboy with olives, mushrooms, sausage and pepperoni will win the heart of any pizza lover, it’s simple and classic ingredients make for a perfect pizza.

But Papa Murphy’s gets a lot better when you consider their many other menus. For instance a common favorite is the Herb Chicken Mediterranean DeLite which in addition to being low calorie has spinach, sun dried tomatoes and feta cheese which in my opinion could possibly make the most delicious thing ever tasted.

But Papa Murphy’s isn’t done yet, not even close, prepare yourself for the ability to create stuffed pizzas, not only can you get any pizza in a stuffed version, you can customize every part of your desired pizza. Change the crust, change the sauce, combine two pizza types or make a completely new one. And if the mood strikes why not put that pizza inside another pizza.

You can hardly imagine a pizza you can’t get made. And when your pizza is made you receive it wrapped and ready to bake with instructions and a menu for future orders which comes with a coupon and occasionally a free item.

And remember just because Papa Murphy’s is a take and bake restaurant  doesn’t mean you can’t call ahead of time to request an order, this way it will be fresh and ready right when you get there avoiding any potential crowd that has resulted from demand for wonderful pizza.

The staff work in an orderly team line, each handling one aspect of the pizza making. The employees are very understanding and polite so feel free to ask a question or make a suggestion for your pizza and they will happily oblige you within their ability.

Papa Murphy’s in Tyler…Again

July 21st, 2010

            I realize that someone has probably already posted something on this site about Papa Murphy’s Pizza in Tyler. When several of us were newly hired to write for Tyler TX Directory, there was a mad rush to write about the Pizza places in town since there are so many of them. As someone once said, “a writer must write of what he knows.” Now I have previously stated that Bruno’s in Tyler is hands down the best in town, and I am still of that opinion. But I consider that to be dinning out pizza. Double Dave’s is also delicious, but that too, is eat out food. When it comes to carry out Papa Murphy’s has to be my first choice (and even by that standard it’s only marginally behind Dave’s). Now when I was a younger better fit man (ok that was a while ago), I ate pretty much whatever I wanted and worried not wit about the consequences, but now that I’m approaching middle age I find that I’m more concerned about my diet. Eating most take out in Tyler tends to leave me feeling… guilty and ashamed. Even the take- out pizza I like, seldom leaves me with a sense of well being. I really don’t need to dip my pizza in creamy garlic butter, or stuff the crust of my pizza with thick runny cheese! As good as cheap pizza may taste at the moment; there may be a physical price to pay in the long run. As my priest warns, sin is often pleasurable for a time.

            Papa Murphy’s food is not like other low quality greasy spoons in town. The ingredients are generally more wholesome and at least potentially healthy (depending on your choices of course). Now I am not going to claim that the Chicago Style stuffed pizzas are exactly good for you but they are delicious and for those of us who are conscious of what we eat; PM offers a great “deLite” menu that will leave the calorie counting customer both satisfied, and largely guilt free.  (I realize that’s a pretty tough call for fitness Nazis and other weight- loss gurus). Be that as it may, Papa Murphy’s seems to me to be the best tasting, and generally the healthiest take- out pizza in town. And I say that as a customer who is even now enjoying a slice. For more information on Papa Murphy’s see their website at www.papamurphys.com. To see a menu, go to http://www.papamurphys.com/pdf/PapaMurphysMenu.pdf. For more on Tyler’s various pizza parlors and or buffets look for the following titles or articles on this site: A Pizza a Beer and a Ball Game, The Best of the Buffets, The Worst of the Buffets and Bruno’s, the Best Pizza in Town.

Papa Murphy’s in Tyler Texas

January 17th, 2010

Papa Murphy’s Take and Bake Pizza

3868 Hwy 64
Tyler 75704
903 531 9500

We enjoy home-made pizzas so I had to be persuaded to try out Papa Murphy’s. I was pleasantly surprised at the outcome!

Papa Murphy’s isn’t your usual pizza place. It’s a bit like – Hmmm – Subway for pizzas!

First you choose and pay for the size and type of pizza you like and if you want a custom pizza you look at all the toppings and decide which you want. Then you watch while they artistically make your pizza in front of you using lots of fresh ingredients. You can comment as they add the toppings – ‘a little more please’, ‘onions on just half the pizza’ and so on until hey presto, the pizza is finished and ready to take home and cook. We had a pizza that was 1/3 pepperoni and 2/3 crispy bacon and pineapple. They absolutely loaded on the toppings, there was no holding back at this place! I haven’t tried the side dishes but they look good too. There is also a low fat ‘lite’ pizza.

The pizzas are double wrapped and baking instructions are included. I love that you can cook it on the tray it comes on too. The result was delicious.

I have to admit to stopping at Papa Murphy’s most Fridays now (it’s our ‘family night’) and in fact, I have now completed a rewards card – if you buy 6 large pizzas you get one free. Sometimes I call ahead with my order so I don’t have to wait for it to be made and at other times I just like to go in and watch it being done!

Try Papa Murphy’s – there are 3 in Tyler so there’s no excuse!
www. papamurphys. com
PS. Papa Murphy has been voted Best Pizza Chain in America for several years.

West Loop Development in Tyler

November 24th, 2009

Da Hippie
Update: The shopping complex in Tyler TX that houses such places as Da Hippie and DragonBytes has gone through a massive renovation since this article. Bravo! (said in a snobby accent) The new commercial facility renovation looks great!

Over the past few years, I have been excited to watch the economic growth and expansion occurring in West Tyler. The west loop has seen numerous decayed and crime ridden businesses closed and the real estate sold to make room for legitimate, contributing entrepreneurs. We’ve seen the likes of Wingstop, Subway, Walgreens, Starbucks, Papa Murphy’s, and numerous others, set up shop along the west loop and sixty four. Even the west loop Wal-Mart, as messy and sometimes run-down as it is, has brought with it quite a bit of development since its arrival around five years ago. It all goes to validate the maxim that a rising tide lifts all boats, something most of our current political leaders have either forgotten, or chosen to ignore. The expansion also proves that a great way to foster healthy communities is to allow healthy individuals and businesses to succeed. Give people the opportunity to buy up infected areas and they will purge the corrupted property and bring in new dollars.

With this principle in mind, I must express a certain amount of disappointment that up until this point, the West Loop and thirty one has been largely left out of the recent renaissance. I’ve long been embarrassed by the look and content of thirty one west. It has been Tyler’s ugly back door for quite sometime. It has been, and remains my hope that the development of the Cascades and the new Airport will help buoy property values and bring improvements to this ugly highway.

When the developers do decide to take the plunge and move towards Chandler, I would like to suggest a few eyesores I eagerly await seeing bulldozed completely. I do not even care whether or not they are replaced with more reputable establishments… Well that’s not true, I do hope for improvements. However a pile of rubble is preferable to these businesses (and I use the term loosely). The originally named “Sports Club,”(once named the Unicorn Club), as well as close neighbors “Da Hippy” (I can barely contain my contempt as I type this), the “Dragon’s Byte,” (their spelling not mine) and the nondescript corner gas station, have long been a breeding ground for drug use, crime, third rate tattoo artists, and general filth. The real estate is located at the corner of thirty one and Greenbriar, where a healthier more upstanding business could potentially make a successful go of it. As developments like the Cascades expand toward highway thirty one, properties like the ones I mentioned could be a source of prosperity for some entrepreneurial risk taker. The day “Da Hippy” is bulldozed I’ll be there with popcorn to watch.