Klondike Pizza

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Welcome to Klondike Pizza!
Enjoy our award winning pizza in a fun, friendly Alaskan atmosphere. FREE PEANUTS with your food order and you can toss your shells on the floor! The Klondike is open daily at 11:00 for lunch and dinner. We're famous for our pizza but we also serve delicious burgers; baked, cold and grilled sandwiches, garden fresh salads and real Alaskan Reindeer Sausage! Check out our menu. We hope to see you at our Tuesday Night Chowdown (all you can eat) at both locations and our Old Time Sing - Along every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month at our Arroyo Grande location.

The Klondike Story ... believe it or not ...
Klondike founders, Mike and Pam Dennis met in 1981 at a blackjack table in the Noluk Casino in Skagway, Alaska - the gateway to the Klondike Gold Country. Mike, a suave, debonair librarian from Kotzebue, AK, had wanted to go to Las Vegas, but couldn't afford it on his meager librarian's salary. Pam, whose stellar career as a world famous supermodel had tragically ended when she tripped over her chihuahua and broke her hip, was the dealer running the table when Mike sat down. Love bloomed and soon they married. Pam's best friend, "Eskimo Elvis", an Elvis impersonator by night and world renowned pizza chef by day, performed the ceremony.
Mike quit his librarian job to become a professional gambler at the casino, and together, the Dennises bilked hundreds of cruise ship tourists of their life savings and invested all of it in Alaskan oil. Soon they were rich, but alas . . . it was not to last. In the late eighties, oil prices plummeted, Alaska's economy went into a depression, the Noluck Casino went belly-up and soon Mike and Pam were broke.
One day, Eskimo Elvis suggested that they all become partners and open a pizza restaurant in sunny California. That sounded good to Pam because the cold Alaskan winters were killing her bad hip. Several months later, in September 1988, the first Klondike Pizza opened in Arroyo Grande, CA.
The early years were darn hard - long hours, no money and no cruise ship tourists to bilk. Eventually, Eskimo Elvis left the partnership and moved to Vegas, where he headlines today at the world famous Ice Palace Hotel. Mention the "Klondike" and get 10% off the cover price!
In 1996, the second Klondike opened in Santa Maria and is run by the Dennis' cousins - "Icie Irv", a retired igloo contractor, and his lovely wife, "Chilly June", a snowmobile mechanic.
A few months ago, Pam underwent a hip replacement and as soon as she is done with physical therapy and doesn't need a walker (and loses a few pounds) she is planning a big comeback as a "Senior Super Model", modeling trendy housecoats on the QVC network.