Chip Myles | Sam Slaughter

What’s an “adult pizza”?

For most people, 40 years running the same business would be more than enough to call it a career, especially if that business were as fast-paced as a restaurant. Chip Myles is not one of those people, though. For almost half a century, he ran Myles Pizza Pub in Bowling Green, Ohio, and now, less than four years later, Myles is back, but in a new location: Greenville, South Carolina.

The story of Myles starts with the wish to create “adult pizza.” That is, pizza with flavor that could be the centerpiece of a date night. Founder Chip Myles first created his pizza for his wife Bridget while she was pregnant with their second child. He made his own sauce and, essentially, made the pizza he wanted to eat. That pizza wasn’t New York or Chicago style. The only way to