Sally's Apizza

[
New Haven, Connecticut]

Sally's Apizza is a pizzeria in the Wooster Square neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut.

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 hard cheeses.

Sally's opened at 237 Wooster Street in 1938 by Fhilomena Consiglio, the matriarch of the Consiglio family, where it still operates today. She named the pizzeria after her oldest son, Sal "Sally" Consiglio. Sally Consiglio was the nephew of Frank Pepe, the owner of Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, another Wooster Street pizza establishment. Sally's and Pepe's have a long rivalry and pizza fans are divided over which serves the better pizza. Sally's pizza tends to have a somewhat thinner and more tender crust than Pepe's.

Sally's is a small restaurant and New Havenites will cheerfully wait in line outside the restaurant for hours. The wait to be seated is almost as much of a New Haven tradition as the pizza itself. Sally's is considered a major tourist attraction in New Haven, and has been featured in the Doonesbury cartoon strip. Sal Consiglio's brother Tony Consiglio was Frank Sinatra's personal assistant for many years. Sally's walls have many photographs of Sinatra and Tony at Sinatra's height of popularity. There is also a gold record album from New Haven native Michael Bolton thanking Sally's in the liner notes.

References

* [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=237+Wooster+Street,+New+Haven,+CT&spn=0.022909,0.040525&t=h&hl=en Location]
* [http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4805805&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7560&rfi=8 You say Sally's, I say Pepe's]
* [http://pizzatherapy.com/sally's.htm Sally's Apizza at pizzatherapy.com]
* [http://www.sliceny.com/archives/2004/09/new_haven_pizza_2.php Sally's Apizza review at Slice]
* Reinhart, Peter (2003). "American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza". ISBN 1-58008-422-2.