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Ledger No. 01

Wood-fired · New Haven, Connecticut

Pies out of the fire, written into the book.

Wood-fired Neapolitan pies, Sicilian squares cut from the tray, house salads, garlic knots and gelato — ordered here, then boxed for pickup or delivery.

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Pickup Delivery Family-size takeout
How it works

Four lines, then the oven

Order in four steps.

Four lines and the kitchen has everything it needs to fire your pies.

  1. 01

    Write your lines

    Pies, squares, salads, knots or gelato — list what you want in the order form.

  2. 02

    Pick pickup or delivery

    Counter pickup, or delivery across New Haven and the neighbourhoods around it.

  3. 03

    Send the entry

    Your order goes straight to the kitchen and the fire does the rest.

  4. 04

    Boxed and out

    Cut, boxed and stacked at the counter, or out the door on the delivery run.

Family-size takeout Tray orders go on the same book — order ahead and it waits for you at the counter.

Method · The oven

Dough, fire, and the short walk to the counter.

Three movements, repeated all day. The dough is made first and left to rest, the wood goes in next, and the pie is boxed the moment it leaves the floor of the oven.

  1. 01

    The dough

    Flour, water, salt and yeast, mixed and set aside to rest until it stretches without tearing. It is divided, rounded and waited on — nothing here is rushed.

  2. 02

    The fire

    Split wood, lit early so the oven floor glows before the first pie. The heat is read by eye, then the pie goes in on the peel and turns until the edge blisters.

  3. 03

    The box

    Out of the fire, cut, boxed and set on the counter — or stacked for delivery across New Haven, still breathing steam when it reaches the door.

A pizza going into a glowing wood-fired oven on a long peel
Fig. A — into the fire
Hands stretching dough on a floured marble counter
Fig. B — the stretch
A pizzeria counter with stacked takeout boxes and a tray of squares
Fig. C — the takeout counter
A dish of gelato and a bowl of house salad on a metal tray

Also on the ledger

The cold case, the salad bowl and the knots.

A pizza order is usually more than a pizza. Everything else on this page is made the same day and written into the same book.

  • A

    House salads

    Leaves kept cold and dressed sharp, so the bowl still has a bite to it when it reaches the table.

  • B

    Garlic knots

    Knotted from the day’s dough and sent through the oven with the pies — garlic, parsley and a gloss of oil.

  • C

    Gelato

    A short list of flavours at the end of the counter, scooped into a dish or packed into a tub for the walk home.

Final entry

The last line is yours.

Set down what you want and how you want it, and the kitchen takes it from there — pickup at the counter, or delivery across New Haven.

  • i
    Pickup Collected at the counter, boxed and ready to carry.
  • ii
    Delivery Sent out across New Haven and the surrounding neighbourhoods.
  • iii
    Family-size takeout Trays and full pies ordered ahead for a table at home.

Your entry

Pickup or delivery

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Send your entry and we’ll take it line by line from there.