{"id":181662,"date":"2024-07-24T03:36:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T08:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=181662"},"modified":"2024-07-24T03:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T08:37:10","slug":"local-pizzeria-to-be-featured-on-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/07\/24\/local-pizzeria-to-be-featured-on-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Local pizzeria to be featured on show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local restaurant Wild Willy\u2019s will be hosting a visit from&nbsp;<em>America\u2019s Best Restaurants&nbsp;<\/em>(ABR) in early August.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>America\u2019s Best Restaurants<\/em>, a national media and marketing company focusing on bringing attention to local, independently-owned restaurants, will bring its ABR Roadshow to the restaurant on August 7.&nbsp; Popular dishes will be highlighted, along with an extensive on-camera interview with owner William Gamble about the restaurant\u2019s special place in the community. The episode will be aired extensively on social media channels at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Wild-Willys-Pizza-7-23-2024-e1721764642194.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181674\"\/><figcaption>Wild Willy&#8217;s pizza will be featured on ABR Roadshow. <em>Photo provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Wild Willy\u2019s was nominated to be on the&nbsp;<em>Roadshow&nbsp;<\/em>by customer and fan Michael Banks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gamble opened the first Wild Willy\u2019s in 1994 in downtown Van Wert, left for a career with the post office and then reopened the eatery with friends in 2008. He left again, the restaurant closed after a time, and Gamble reopened about one-and-a-half years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family-run eatery serves a variety of subs, pizza, pasta, wings, stromboli and calzone, and desserts. The restaurant is active in the local community as a sponsor and doing fundraising for such organizations as the Van Wert County Council on Aging and local theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>America\u2019s Best Restaurants<\/em>&nbsp;will be filming on location from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Wednesday, August 7.The restaurant\u2019s finished episode premiere date will be announced on their Facebook page and will be featured on&nbsp;<em>America\u2019s Best Restaurants<\/em>\u2019 website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Restaurants featured on the ABR Roadshow are selected based on their customer reviews, menu items, social media presence, and level of involvement with their community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information Local restaurant Wild Willy\u2019s will be hosting a visit from&nbsp;America\u2019s Best Restaurants&nbsp;(ABR) in early August.&nbsp; America\u2019s Best Restaurants, a national media and marketing company focusing on bringing attention to local, independently-owned restaurants, will bring its ABR Roadshow to the restaurant on August 7.&nbsp; Popular dishes will be highlighted, along with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 04:33:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181685,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181662\/revisions\/181685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}