Pizza eatery utilizes Capone touch.
A pizza joint themed after Chicago gangster Al Capone is opening in the Hamlin Town Center project south of Winter Garden later this year.
Mobster-inspired Capone’s Coal Fired Pizza is slated to open in late 2018 with a Prohibition-era themed eatery with wood and iron decor and exposed brick ovens, as well as pictures of famous mobsters. It will also serve cocktails such as the Mobster Manhattan and St. Valentine’s Sangria.
Capone was a mob boss best known for bootlegging. He became a popular figure before he was arrested and imprisoned in 1933 for tax evasion and died in 1947 after a stroke and pneumonia.
Capone’s Coal Fired Pizza will join a luxury movie theater, Publix, Walmart and another restaurant themed after an early 20th-century figure, Henry Ford with Ford’s Garage.
Capone’s at Hamlin Town Center is the second location for the chain after starting in Fort Myers in 2014.
“We want to create a dining experience and not just a meal with all of our restaurants,” said a statement from Marc Brown, president of 23 Restaurant Services. “Hamlin is an excellent location for Capone’s and Ford’s Garage because of the combination of families and professionals in the community.”
The menu for the original Fort Myers location includes salads, pasta, sandwiches, pizzas, beer, wine and cocktails.