About Luzzo's Group

Michele Iuliano is the man behind the ovens at Luzzo’s Group–a family of Southern Italian restaurants designed around each of their unique neighborhoods including its iconic East Village flagship Luzzo’s, and more recently, Ovest Pizzoteca in Chelsea and TriBeCa’s Da Mikele. Trained in Naples, Italy, Iuliano created an ever-expanding empire of restaurants that lean heavily on real Neapolitan techniques in order to cater to the market’s growing demand for undiluted, true-to-form regional cooking.

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Luzzo's Family of Restaurants

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Italian Restaurant Design

Michele sculpts his crust with delicate care, realizing through experience that rough kneading will produce an inferior pie.

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LUZZO'S GROUP

MICHELE IULIANO_President Restaurant Operations| Master pizzaiolo and third-generation baker, Michele Iuliano, (pronounced Mee-keh-lee) has introduced a distinctly Neapolitan style of pizza-making previously unknown to New York City. Michele is a restless pizzaiolo – constantly toying with flour and water for the perfect dough recipe. He developed his technique with years of baking traditional Italian loaves and believes bread to be the foundational canvas for true Neapolitan pizza.

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EDEN TESFAMARIAM_Director of Operations,Concept Development | Eden is a partner of Luzzo’s Group. She moved to New York from Milan, Italy, in 2004, and has been working in the hospitality industry since then, eventually opening Ovest Pizzoteca with Michele.

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Wine Restaurant

Food Handling

Restaurant Business

Restaurant Management

Sensory Experience

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The Restaurant

LUZZO'S GROUP

TONY D'AIUTO_Partner | Tony is a partner of Luzzo’s Group. Tony grew up in the restaurant business, and, for over twenty years, has worked every position from waiter to cook to owner. He has a remarkably keen understanding of cooking, ingredients, food handling, wine, restaurant management and the restaurant industry in general. He has a great appreciation for the fact that cooking, as well as eating, is a pan-sensory experience best enjoyed in great company.

Da Mikele – Signature food by Luzzo’s has Neapolitan-inspired menu. Our favorite pizza, pasta and other Italian specialties, and the cozy, laid-back and friendly vibe makes it our favorite place for any time of day. The menu features a dazzling selection of specials daily, from hand-made pastas, single-size, half-moon pizzas with salad, round or square pizzas, to main courses, salads, and more affordable and healthy choices for an authentic lunch, dinner, or Sunday brunch experience.

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Ovest Pizzoteca is West Chelsea’s destination for Luzzo’s Naples-style dining, enoteca selection of Italian wines and great mixology cocktails.Wood and brick oven pizza, homemade pasta and authentic panini are crafted with Michele Iuliano's masterful dough recipe. Sitting beneath the highline along reemerging W 27th Street, the industrial brick walls and high ceilings house the after-work aperitivo (Italian “happy hour”) packed daily with the neighboring gallery district art and fashion set.

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Nested in the heart of the East Village, Luzzo’s is home to Michele Iuliano’s heralded style of Neapolitan pizza. The executive Pizzaiolo creates his signature pies in one of the few remaining coal ovens in NYC. The 100year old oven pipes out pizza crafted with quality ingredients imported directly from Naples. Luzzo’s has set the standard for Neapolitan-style pizza in the Big Apple with Michele’s masterful technique combined with recipes handed down from generations past.