Pizza City with Steve Dolinsky Podcast
1) Chris Pandel - Zarella (Chicago)
Chris Pandel teamed up with fellow Boka Restaurant Group Chef Lee Wolen to create Zarella, a pizzeria and taverna with two styles of pizza: a thin artisan and an even thinner tavern. Pandel tackled th...Show More
2) Guillermo Paolisso - Capriccio (Chicago)
Argentinian born, Italian raised. Guillermo Paolisso came to Chicago and realized there was a gap in the market: Roman style. He and his wife now make their crunchy slices each day at Capriccio in the...Show More
3) Hunter Leslie - Detroit Pizza Depot (L.A.)
Hunter Leslie started out with a food truck, but realized pretty quickly as he moved from Detroit to L.A., the future was in a brick and mortar. He was one of the first Midwest transplants to open a D...Show More
4) Jeff Scheer - Marlow (Maui)
Jeff Scheer ended up on Maui like a lot of people - by accident. But his commitment to the culinary scene there, as nascent as it is, has been admirable. We discovered his sourdough pizza at Marlow, i...Show More
5) Qiana & Michele Di Bari - Sal e Pepe (Lahaina, HI)
Their motto is "One Part Milan, One Part Brooklyn, All Maui," so you know a pizza from Sal e Pepe is going to be special. This is a love story for sure, but it's also a story of resilience and courage...Show More
6) Bronwen Kinzler-Britton & Jose Ibarra - Naughty Pie Nature (L.A.)
Bronwen Kinzler-Britton & Jose Ibarra both came from more fine-dining backgrounds, but realized they just wanted to work for themselves and make great pizza. Naughty Pie Nature operates out of a tiny ...Show More
7) Alex White - Yukon Pizza (Las Vegas)
Alex White's Great Great Grandfather used a sourdough starter when he ran a shop in the Yukon Territory more than 120 years ago. That same starter lives on in a Las Vegas pizzeria: Yukon Pizza, where ...Show More
8) Vito DeCandia - Angel City Pizza (L.A.)
As a born-and-bred New Yorker (from Long Beach), Vito DeCandia was literally brought up in a pizzeria. He was stretching dough by the age of 12. His lifetime of baking eventually led him to the West C...Show More
9) John Notaro - Famous Ben's of SoHo (NYC)
John Notaro may have spent his early years in Brooklyn, but there's no denying pizza and baking are in his DNA. He spent years at Sbarro, then ran a bakery until he became partners at Famous Ben's, a ...Show More
10) Wylie Dufresne - Stretch Pizza (NYC)
Wylie Dufresne has spent his life and career in New York City. He worked for Jean Georges Vongerichten, ran notable restaurants like 71 Clinton Fresh Food and WD50, and was starting a doughnut busines...Show More