Utica, NY
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O'Scugnizzo (1914) is the second-oldest pizzeria in America. Its upside-down style, sauce on the crust and cheese on top, defines the local pizza lineage. Per the Rome Sentinel's coverage of O'Scugnizzo, Mangia Macrina's and Artani's.
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O'Scugnizzo Pizzeria · Downtown Utica
Founded in August 1914 by Eugenio Brullino, a Naples pastry chef who sold his wife Maria's tomato pies at church feasts, and run by the fourth generation of the family at 614 Bleecker Street since the 1960s. The Rome Sentinel's Thomas Caputo reports the sauce is cooked in a giant kettle in back, the shells and sandwich bread are baked there, the mozzarella is hand-sliced and the sausage ground in house. Order the upside-down pie, sauce on the crust and cheese on top.
Mangia Macrina's Wood Fired Pizza · New Hartford
Chris Woodbeck's Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizza operation, which the Rome Sentinel reported rebuilt at 470 French Road in South Utica after a 2022 arson fire forced it out of its original New Hartford spot. The new space, a former Rintrona's Bistro and Black Cat Bar & Grill location, gave the kitchen more room to grow beyond pizza, salads and appetizers. Order a wood-fired pizza built to order in the 90-second oven.
Artani’s Pizzeria - Rome
Rome Sentinel told the story of how this Rome pizzeria became Artani's: after a cease-and-desist from Frank Sinatra's estate over its former name and decor, owners Justin and Lindsey Gillett put the rebrand to a public Facebook vote and landed on 'Artani's,' Sinatra reversed. The feature frames the change as a new name over the same food the shop's regulars already knew. Order a New York-style cheese slice or a specialty pie, with wings on the side.