Frank Pepe's pizza has been voted the best pizza in the country many times. It is thin, charred, all puffy from the extreme heat in the bread oven it came from, chewy and melting in your mouth. The toppings range from freshly chopped tomatoes and mozzarella to white clams, with or without bacon, and everything in between. What started in 1925 in a small spot in New Heaven, Connecticut, where Italian immigrant Frank Pepe made his first brick oven and baked his first “tomato pie,” is now part of the history of pizza in the States. Once an obscure ethnic dish, pizza is now, very much thanks to Papa Frank, considered as American as apple pie. There are seven Pepe’s locations operated by Pepe’s 10 great-grandchildren, who still use original recipes to make their coal-fired pizza.

157 Wooster St, New Haven, CT 06511, Phone: 203-865-5762

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