Tag Archives: Italian food

Fire in the Belly

Plain pizza at Da Legna

Owner Dan Parillo is manning the wood-fired oven at his State Street pizzeria Da Legna. He’s got myriad duties to perform or oversee, but he seems most comfortable here in the kitchen, making signature pizzas and small plates, and trying …

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Pie High

Joey DeMatteo at Joey D's

“I’m gonna get whiplash,” says Auntie JoAnn, as she’s known by the crew, looking hurriedly from the large menu mounted on the wall to her right, then back down to the order she’s scribbling, the phone wedged between her ear …

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In Topping Form

Kitchen Zinc | In Topping Form

I’ll admit it: when Kitchen Zinc first opened, I was skeptical. New Haven seemed on the verge of pizza saturation, so it was with much grumbling about a missed opportunity to do something different in this pizza town that I …

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