I recently moved into a “resort”-type apartment building that seeks to solve all the needs of their tenants not only by providing amazing amenties, but also integrates commercial space on the bottom floor that can further cater to tenant lifestyle.

One of the commercials spaces, Pizza Fusion, happens to be directly under my apartment.  So convenient that even if I am craving something as symbol as their organic coffee or sugar-cane sweetened soft drinks, I can simply walk downstairs in 1 min and have my craving satisfied.

I feel lucky to have this place below.  I have been practicing a healthy lifestyle for years, but I admit, even I have a craving for “comfort” food like pizza, philly cheesesteak sandwiches, or a soft drink (which I refer to as “pop”).  Pizza Fusion allows me to satisfy these rare, yet very real cravings. 

The concept is very interesting.  First, the entire establishment is built around a green and organic concept.  Everything in the restaurant (including the soy based polished floors) is build from a green product.  The ingredients they use in the food are organic all bought from local distributers and farmers to help support the local economy.

The soda they serve is from a company that sweetens their soda with raw sugar cane juice rather than the nasty high fructose corn syrup that most Americans consume.  If you have read up on it, high fructose corn syrup is extremely unhealthy for you and is linked to being a large factor in many of the obesity cases across the nation.  But it’s not just about being healthy…if you tasted the soda, you’d agree how much better tasting it is than normal Coke or Pepsi products.  The black cherry soda Pizza Fusion has was out due to high demand before the first week of business!!

They have a variety of vegan, vegitarian, and meat dishes to satisfy whatever type of person walks through their door.  Furthermore, they also offer gluten free crust for their pizza for those that are uber health conscious (or have gluten allergies).

The first question most people whom are not familiar/fond of “healthy” food is:  How does it taste?  Answer:  F$%@ing Amazing!!.  Don’t walk into the restaurant expecting to get a grease dripping, fattening pie of pizza or philly cheesesteak, because you won’t get that here.  Instead, you get a “fuzed” version of the popular unhealthy dishes that aren’t dripping with grease and filled with fat, but still taste amazing.

The franchise appears to be fairly new as there are other locations nationally, but seem to be scattered randomly throughout the southwest, south, and southeast (and even one in Saudi Arabia!).  As you can see from the CNN report, this franchise is gaining support fast!!  I would expect we will see not only more Pizza Fusions popping up all throughout the country, but also we may begin to see a trend of other green/healthy fusion restaurants that will offer healthy alternatives to our most devious cravings!