With an oven heated to 850 F, Island Flames Wood-Fired Mobile Pizza turns out Neapolitan pizza in about 90 seconds, as owners Lori and Gilles Seguin expand their fourth-season business into Sault Ste. Marie<\/p>\n
Gilles and Lori Seguin are enjoying an active retirement as the owners of Island Flames Wood-Fired Mobile Pizza.<\/p>\n
The couple, based in Hilton Beach on St. Joseph Island, can be seen with their trailer and oven parked and ready for business beside The Tap Room on Pim Street from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. each Thursday.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re also ready for business at Whisky Rocks in Richards Landing each Tuesday and the Hilton Beach Marina each Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lori and Gilles, assisted by three helpers, sell about 120 pizzas to customers when located beside The Tap Room.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Tap Room is a good match for us,\u201d Gilles said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is our fourth season in operation. We go from May to September and this year we decided to expand into the Sault,\u201d Lori said.<\/p>\n
Lori learned how to make Neapolitan pizza, with its thin, soft crust, by taking courses in Toronto and Italy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lived in the south of France as a kid. The food is so good in France and Spain and that\u2019s where I got the flair for cooking,\u201d Gilles said.<\/p>\n
Lori works with the dough and adds the toppings before handing it to Gilles, who then cooks it in a wood-fired oven heated to 850 F.<\/p>\n
At that heat, the pizza is ready to serve in 90 seconds.<\/p>\n
The Island Flames menu features eight different pizzas.<\/p>\n
Lori said the two biggest favourites with customers are Island Flames Hawaiian and Soppressata pizzas.<\/p>\n
The Soppressata includes mild salami, roasted red peppers, mozzarella and hot honey drizzle.<\/p>\n
Lori is a Sault native while Gilles hails from Quebec City.<\/p>\n
After meeting in the Sault, the couple lived and worked in Toronto for 17 years before retiring to their cottage on St. Joseph Island.<\/p>\n
Lori worked as a human resources officer for an investment bank while Gilles worked in the lottery sector.<\/p>\n
The couple got the idea for Island Flames in their backyard on St. Joseph Island.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did it for family and friends during COVID. We built a pizza oven in our backyard and every Saturday night we were making pizza for 30 people. So, we said \u2018we know what we\u2019re going to do when we return home and retire,\u2019\u201d Lori said.<\/p>\n
Business has been brisk for the couple and an enjoyable source of interaction with the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like the food industry because it’s very social. I knew so many people from OLG and I meet them all here beside The Tap Room now. They all come over to say hello,\u201d Gilles said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love food. I love to cook. I’m passionate about food and I love being around people. I couldn’t ask for a better retirement. We love it. This\u00a0a great way to meet people,\u201d Lori said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With an oven heated to 850 F, Island Flames Wood-Fired Mobile Pizza turns out Neapolitan pizza in about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,272273],"class_list":["post-765336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-columnslets-eatisland-flames-wood-fired-mobile-pizza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}