Sally's Apizza is a famed pizzeria in the Wooster Square neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. It, along with its neighbor Pepe's, is often cited by aficionados in debates over the world's best pizza.
Fare
Sally's serves New Haven-style thin-crust apizza, which is baked in coal-fired brick ovens. By default, a New Haven pizza is a "plain" pizza topped with only tomato sauce, garlic, and mozzarella and Parmesan. Sally's is a small restaurant, and often, patrons must wait in line, sometimes for hours.
A pizza from Sally's Apizza
A pizza from Sally's Apizza
History
The restaurant was opened in April 1938 by Salvatore Consiglio, nephew of Frank Pepe, who was the owner of Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, another Wooster Street pizza restaurant. Sal Consiglio ran it until his death in May 1989. His wife Flo died in September 2012. Their children Richard, Robert, and Ruth still operate the restaurant.
Illustration. Sarah Kilcoyne. Hannah Selinger has spent the last decade writing about food and restaurant life. But long before that, she was a sommelier, and now that work has become the basis of her first book, Cellar Rat ... But I digress ... Sally’s Apizza.
