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The Lucky Number: Ali Haider Is Setting the Pizza World on Fire at 786 Degrees.
Ali Haider may be half-Iraqi and half-Indian, but he’s all Italian at heart. As owner of 786° Wood Fired Pizza Company in Sun Valley, California, the dashingly cosmopolitan Haider—he was born in India and raised in Kuwait before immigrating to the United States—terms himself an “ambassador of … More
The Master Plan: How Michael LaMarca Balances Family Life and Pizza Rock Stardom
The owner of Cleveland-based Master Pizza doesn't let running his successful business run his life.
Rocking the Boat: How Two Landlubbers Built a Floating Food Truck in the Virgin Islands
Pizza Pi VI is more than a pizza boat—it’s the highest-rated restaurant in St. Thomas, according to TripAdvisor.
The Robots Are Coming: Zume Pizza May Be the Sci-Fi Pizzeria of the Future
If robots ever conquer the world, Julia Collins will be ready. They might even be her robots, in which case there’s no reason to panic: It will be a friendly takeover. Collins and her partner, Alex Garden, have developed a “cobot culture” at their single-unit pizzeria, Zume Pizza, in … More
Fat Jack’s Pizza and the Quad Cities Pizza Style
Quad Cities pizza boasts a generous dose of malt syrup in the crust, fennel-laced sausage and a sauce spiked with red pepper flakes.
Katie Collier: The Queen of All Pizza Media in St. Louis.
Katie Collier could be a Food Network celebrity if she wanted to be—she just doesn’t want to be. With her extraordinary kitchen skills, warm personality and marketing smarts, Collier, the co-owner and culinary mastermind behind Katie’s Pizza & Pasta Osteria in St. Louis, knows how to get her name—and … More
Chatting With the Two Visionaries from Two Boots
A quick, fun Q&A with Phil Hartman and Leon Hartman, the innovators behind New York-headquartered Two Boots
Two Boots: Meet the Free Spirits Behind Pizzas Like the Hogwallop, the Dude and the Royal Tenenbaum
Naming a pizza at Two Boots is serious business. You can’t just string together a list of ingredients—say, the Bacon, BBQ Chicken, Scallions and Cheddar—and call it a day. No, you give it some deep thought, you search your soul, you ponder eternal cosmic truths, and then it finally … More
We Stayed Up Past Our Bedtime at Mikey’s Late Night Slice in Columbus, Ohio
You might say Mike Sorboro built Mikey’s Late Night Slice with his own two feet. Sorboro, who co-owns the famously irreverent pizza company in Columbus, Ohio, raised the money to launch the first Mikey’s location with his pedicab business, carting hard-partying tourists and clubbers around the city in the … More
Thea’s Rules: This Food-loving Brit Is Rewriting the Restaurant Rules in Miami
In her teenage days, London-born Thea Goldman, owner of Thea’s in Miami, traveled the world as a fashion model—living in Paris, Tokyo, New York City. But her true passion wasn’t strutting down the runway; it was food. She chased jobs in and out of the kitchen, using modeling as … More
Meet the Next Generation of Pizzaioli: Our Readers’ Kids and Grandkids!
Pizzeria owners and managers around the U.S. submitted photos of their little ones for this special National Pizza Month pictorial.