Our pizza and red sauce recipes originated some 70 years ago at an Italian pizzeria in Brooklyn. Each pizza and calzone is handmade and prepared as ordered. Our kitchen is a sophisticated and labor intensive operation: we make our own pizza dough; roast bell peppers; prepare authentic chorizo using the leanest ground beef; our dressings, sauces, desserts and juices and original recipes; ingredients in our pesto include roasted pinenuts and freshly grated parmesan; we pickle our own asparagus.

We welcome young and old, rich and poor as they gather at the Velvet Elvis to share a meal together under the irresistible invitation of a great pizza.

The Velvet Elvis is mentioned in national and international travel publications. we have been featured on TV, in Phoenix magazine and major newspapers. We have been designated an “Arizona Treasure” by governor Janet Nepolitano. We remain humbly amazed at this level of "success." Experts say we broke all the restaurant good-business sense rules. And of that, we remain blissfully ignorant.

The Velvet Elvis also offers our full menu in our catering packages for weddings and special events held at out sister location La Mision La Mision de San Miguel, which is know as Southern Arizona's Premiere Nightclub, and Special Events & Wedding Location.