New Haven-style pizza

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White clam pie from Pepe's in New Haven, Connecticut

Mozzarella pie from Pepe's in New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven-style pizza is a style of Neapolitan pizza common in and around New Haven, Connecticut, locally known as "Apizza". It originated at the Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana^{[citation needed]} and is now served in many other pizza restaurants in the area, most notably, Sally's Apizza and Modern Apizza. Pepe's and Sally's are consistently rated among the best pizzerias in the United States, giving this geographically limited pizza style considerable culinary importance.

1 Characteristics
2 Cooking and serving methods
3 Name
4 Availability
5 References

[edit] Characteristics

New Haven-style pizza is distinguished from most other forms by not being perfectly round (or rectangular). The default version is a "white" pizza topped with only garlic and hard cheeses.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Cooking and serving methods

New Haven-style pizza is traditionally baked in a coal- or wood-fired brick oven and is typically sold whole rather than by the slice.

[edit] Name

Use of the term "apizza" is mostly confined to the Italian-American enclaves of southern Connecticut, and is likely derived from the local Italian-American dialect.^{[citation needed]} The dish is more widely known throughout the region as simply "New Haven-style pizza", as opposed to "New York-style pizza" which remains the dominant style of pizza-making throughout the rest of New England as well as the Mid-Atlantic states.

[edit] Availability

Although most commonly available in the New Haven area, New Haven-style pizza has begun to spread to other parts of Connecticut. It is now commonly available in the Italian American areas of Bridgeport and other shoreline communities.

New Haven-style pizza is also beginning to be served in areas typically not known for large Italian American populations, including Manchester in the central part of the state. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana announced plans in early 2007 to open a a location in the more historically Irish American Manchester, around the same time Randy's Wooster St. Pizza opened its location there.^[1] DePalma's Apizza in neighboring East Haven also serves New Haven-style apizza, as well as McBride's in Wolcott, and also Apizza in Stayton, Oregon ^[2]and Apizza Scholls in Portland, Oregon.^{[citation needed]}