Voting ends Wednesday for the qualifying round of Pizza Wars, the followup to last year’s regional Burger Wars contest. The local bracket is organized by the Kosciusko County Convention and Visitors Bureau. The first round featuring eight pizzas chosen in preliminary voting begins May 15, and the winning pizza will go up against six others from northern Indiana in June. Qualifying round voting is online at http://a.pgtb.me/x6X3r5 Eligible restaurants and their pizzas are: • Angelo’s Chicago Style Pizza and Beef, Warsaw – Chicago style deep dish • The Cafe at the Bowling Alley, Warsaw – Bib’s smoked BBQ chicken • Danny’s Sports Bar and Pizzeria at the Barbee, Warsaw – the People’s Choice • Down Under Family Dining, Syracuse – the 16-inch deluxe • Fire N the Hole Wood Fired Pizzas, mobile restaurant – the Just What the Doctor Ordered • The Frog Tavern, Syracuse – The Wawasee • Gambie’s Pizza, Warsaw – Gambie’s Deluxe • Greek’s Pizzeria, Warsaw – Greek’s Special • Jimmy’s Restaurant and Lounge, North Webster – Stuffed Combination • Light Rail Village Cafe, Winona Lake – The Carne • Mad Anthony’s, Warsaw – The Politician • Red’s Sweets, Claypool – The Pulled Porker Classic • Whetten Pizza, Milford – The Delite The visitors bureau invited restaurants around the county to participate and these 13 were the ones that responded with information and a photo of the pizza they wanted to enter, said Sandy Seney, Visitors Center services coordinator. Restaurants had to be locally owned to be eligible; chains were allowed only if there were no other locations in the participating counties. The View Tavern in South Bend was the winner of northern Indiana Burger Wars last year, after narrowly edging out the Kosciusko winner, the Hoe Burger from North Webster American Legion Post 253, in the first regional round. The tavern went on beat The Lakehouse Grille, Marshall County, in round two, and the Flippin Cow, Elkhart, in the final round.
