Graffiti Market

Risk It For The Brisket is the signature move at Graffiti Market — a Detroit-style pizza carrying smoked brisket and smoked pulled pork over barbecue sauce, finished with smoked jalapeño aioli, farmers sausage, crispy prosciutto, and green onions. The pizza tells you what the kitchen is built around at the Glasgow Street address inside Catalyst137, the Kitchener innovation hub that sits in Belmont Village south of downtown. The dining room is not on a streetfront. It sits inside the hub, on a floor plate the building was zoned to share between a kitchen, a brewery, and a coffee roastery, and the menu was tuned to fit. The walls carry the graffiti murals the name borrows from.

The Detroit pies run a full slate. The Spicy Dill-Inquent stacks house-smoked bacon over dill pickles, a spicy dill pickle crumble, pickled jalapeño, buttermilk ranch, fresh dill, and a finishing hit of hot sauce. The Pep, Margarita, Fungitown, and Bacon & Blue cover the rest of the rectangular-pan column. Off the pizza menu, the G-Burger is built on Forequarter butcher shop beef with aged cheddar, smoked bacon, graffiti sauce, iceberg, tomato, pickles, and an ACE Bakery bun. The Rotisserie Chicken comes out lemon-and-herb-brined, served with roasted tri-coloured pesto potatoes, seasonal vegetables, and house-made gravy. Stockyards beer runs on tap. A Stockyards Coffeehouse counter sits one doorway away in the Catalyst137 lobby.