First-Ever Colorado Pizza Festival Comes to Longmont This Fall

Get ready pizza-lovers: This fall, Longmont will host the first-ever Colorado Pizza Festival 🍕 🥳

The inaugural event will spotlight pizzerias from across the state while raising funds for local hunger relief organizations. Scheduled for Sept. 5, the event is an initiative by Pizza With Purpose, a new nonprofit founded by three of Longmont’s most popular parlors: Urban Field Pizza (recently honored at the International Pizza Expo), Rosalee’s Pizzeria (named one of the country’s best parlors last year), and Antonio’s Real NY Pizza (a wildly popular personal fave 🙋🏻‍♀️).

While the event — which promises to feature live music, family-friendly festivities, and a Pizza Olympics — will be the organization’s annual signature event, Pizza With Purpose also plans to host a variety of philanthropic endeavors throughout the year, an idea first sparked by the recent pause in federal funding for families facing food insecurity here and across the nation.

The nonprofit’s pizza philanthropy will kick off with National Pizza Day next month, when all three founding restaurants will donate $1 from every pepperoni or cheese pizza sold to Slice Out Hunger (the O.G. national pizza-loving nonprofit combating food insecurity one slice of pie at a time) from Feb. 9-15.

Tickets for the Colorado Pizza Festival go on sale May 1. Follow @pizzawithpurpose on Instagram for updates.