This new food truck has a permanent spot in downtown Gig Harbor and a familiar name
It’s bright, blue, and it serves artisan thin-crust pizzas in downtown Gig Harbor.
Millville at 7 Seas is a blue 1963 Ford 500 that’s been converted into a food truck. It’s permanently parked in the new 7 Seas parking lot at 2905 Harborview Dr., and it’s open daily during 7 Seas taproom hours, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
John Ross and his wife, Alyssa Ross, own the food truck, which opened Oct. 25. The flashy truck had a previous life in Portland, John Ross said, and he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to purchase it when he saw it was for sale.
The Rosses aren’t new to the area or to pizza.
They also own two wood-fired pizzerias, Millville at 3409 Harborview Dr. in Gig Harbor and Millhouse at 2515 N. Proctor St. in Tacoma.
They opened Millville in 2016, bringing artisian pizzas, pastas, salads and appetizers to Gig Harbor. They named the pizzeria after the Historic Millville Residential District it’s located in. Their pizzas get their unique names from old and new fishing boats in the community.
Last year the couple decided to expand across the Narrows Bridge. Millhouse & The Blind Pig opened. It serves all the same pizzas and sandwiches on one side, and there’s a full-service bar and lounge on the other.
The Millville at 7 Seas menu
Millville at 7 Seas has a limited menu to start, with room to expand, John Ross told the Gateway.
Right now they’re only serving pizzas and cheese panini sandwiches.
Current pizza options are cheese, pepperoni, supreme, or veggie.
They’re waiting for final approval of their full menu from the health department.
“We are currently operating under a temporary event permit while going through the process for a permanent food truck application,” Ross said.
The temporary event permit has a limited approved menu. Once they have full approval from the heath department, their menu will expand.
Future pizzas will include a white sauce, genoa salami, goat cheese, hot honey, and fresh basil pizza. They’ll also have a rotating monthly special.
Aside from pies, visitors can order a panini sandwich made with homemade bread. They’ll soon have a Reuben on the menu, a Cuban sandwich, and a turkey-bacon-ranch gruyere option, grilled cheese with prosciutto and pesto, and an Italian sandwich with soppressata, proscuitto, manchego, garlic aoili, and arugula, Ross said.
While they wait for final approval from the health department, Ross said the Reuben is being offered as a special this week, until they run out.
The full menu will also include smaller bites such as garlic knots, pretzels with cheese dip or mustard sauce, charcuterie and a chopped salad.
For those who like a soup-and-salad combo, or a soup-and-sandwich combo, a rotating soup will hit the menu soon, Ross said.
Soups should start Nov. 20. The first will be a butternut squash bisque.
For those with a sweet tooth, Ross said they’ll also be adding cookies to the menu. Options include chocolate chip, a dark chocolate -white chocolate cookie, and pumpkin spice.
Customers can order in-person at the truck or place an order ahead of time online.
The wood-fired oven inside the truck was made in Idaho, Ross said. The colorful tiles that line it are from Arizona.
The Ross family chose the 7 Seas parking lot for multiple reasons.
Of course a beer pairs well with a pizza or sandwich, he said. But 7 Seas and Millville also share a bond of both growing up in Gig Harbor, Ross said.
It’s also the first commercial parking lot in the heart of Gig Harbor, and it’s by the water, Ross said.
The 7 Seas dock’s inner slips are for private moorage, but the blue outer rim is dedicated to customers arriving by boat or even paddle board.
“It’s a really unique opportunity to just grab a lot of customers both from the street, but then also from the water,” Ross said.
These first few months will help Millville see what the community is looking for, Ross said. They want to have their last tweaks to the menu finalized by spring.
The first few weeks the truck was slammed with people coming out to enjoy the last nice bit of weather. The rain has brought a more regular flow of customers, Ross said.
This story was originally published November 13, 2023 at 5:30 AM.
