Topp’d Pizza serving a Thanksgiving leftover pizza

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Chad Talbott, owner and operator of the 10-month-old Topp’d Pizza at 3934 Rainbow, listens to his customers — even when he thinks some of their suggestions border on the highly unusual.

“I have a regular customer who’s been nagging me about offering a Thanksgiving pizza,” Talbott says. “And at first I thought it was crazy. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought, ‘I can do that.’ So I did.”

Talbott launched his Thanksgiving Leftovers pizza — featuring a layer of house-made mashed potatoes, grated cheddar, slow-roasted turkey, sage stuffing with gravy, and a drizzle of his own cranberry sauce — last week.

“I didn’t know if anyone would buy one,” Talbott says, “but it’s been selling better than I thought.”

Not as well as the autumn pizza he’s been serving during the month of November: slices of fresh Bartlett pears and Gorgonzola cheese with Talbot’s own fresh pear gastrique. I’ve tasted it, and it’s delicious.

The Thanksgiving Leftovers pizza is more of an acquired taste, but it does capture all of the distinctive flavors of the traditional holiday meal in one freshly baked wedge.

Talbott says he’ll probably only serve the leftovers pizza until Black Friday — “or until I run out of the ingredients.”

The pear-and-Gorgonzola pizza goes off the special board at the end of November, to be replaced with Talbott’s December pizza special: smoked gouda, butternut squash and candied bacon.