Who is build a pizza?

build a pizza is a small business pizza restaurant located at 17585 imperial valley drive, Houston, TX 77060. We’re impacting our community by providing healthier options & no preservatives with pizza. We offer traditional pizza toppings with the addition of turkey pepperoni and turkey sausage full of Italian flavors. Our menu consists of pizza, pizza kits, Chicago, and Italian foods. Our services offer pizza for any celebration with shaped pizzas and fun colorful cheeses. Our goal is to celebrate all occasions and bring families to the table together. Chef D Allen, Founder & Owner created Build a Pizza from the experience she had with her three children when they were younger. THey made individual pizzas in our kitchen. She knew the impact it made with her children and wanted to do the same to bring families together.  Her and her daughter, Nahshona brainstormed to create the name and Build a Pizza was born in 2016. We begin operating in August 2020 during the pandemic at a ghost kitchen in Third-ward of Houston. The business moved and begin the build out process at the new location in May 2021 and launched in july 2022. the journey wasn’t easy, but chef persevered and opened her doors to the community with pizza love!

Build a Pizza is pizza food art with a purpose. Pizza has been traditionally known as delicious, but with high calories, fat, sodium, and other unhealthy ingredients.  A survey by www.bakemag.com showed that nearly 3/4 of Americans would eat more pizza if it were healthier. Depending on the pizza shop, consumers have a choice of available toppings to choose, but they may not be conducive to their diet or religion preference.  Build a Pizza food contains no-preservatives with freshly prepared sauces, and crusts by chef d allen.  Our pizza is delicious w/healthier oils and toppings like non in the market, i.e., turkey pepperoni and sausage. Typically, Italian pork sausage has 242 calories vs Italian turkey sausage has 169.

  • Socially, our goal is to bring people together for a food art experience that’s also educational. For example, The Howdy!, Texas-shaped pizza offers a social studies fun for the kiddos.  

  • Environmentally, our food is served with no preservatives and contain fresh ingredients.

  • Culturally, our goal is to celebrate all occasions with shaped pizza fun. We provide disposable chef hats for everyone who creates their food art with a pizza kit! It is family food entertainment where everyone can be a C.H.E.F. (Creative, Healthy, Exciting, Fun) of the Day! We’ll stand by our motto, provide safe products & services to benefit our community. While being creative, healthy, with fun & excitement to create memories that last a lifetime.

Build a pizza is changing the way you enjoy pizza!