New Haven Register (Sunday) (New Haven, CT)
Zuppardi’s Apizza opening takeout spot in city
Zuppardi's Apizza is opening its new Ansonia takeout restaurant on Feb. 2, the West Haven pizzeria announced on social media Wednesday.
The location at 58 Beaver Street, called Zuppardi's Slice Shop and Takeout Apizza, will serve whole pizzas, salads, meatball and sausage sandwiches, minestrone and garlic bread, with housemade biscotti and Libby's Italian ice for dessert. Pizza slices will be available Wednesday through Saturday until 3 p.m.
Apizza options, starting at $13, include made-to-order 14-inch pies with choice of toppings. Specialty pies ($22 to $36) include the Zuppardi's special (mozzarella, mushroom, homemade sausage); white clam (with or without mozzarella), margherita, buffalo chicken and mashed potato.
The Ansonia site will also serve as a prep kitchen for the Zupp's Truck, Zuppardi's Jim Ormrod told Hearst Connecticut in October. He saidthe truck, which has been on the road about six years, kept outgrowing its prep space, first at the West Haven restaurant and then at its satellite location at The Hops Company beer hall in Derby.
As he was purchasing equipment for the new Ansonia building, including a walk-in cooler and a mixer, he said he finally decided he might as well put in a pizza oven.
Over more than eight decades, Zuppardi's has become a celebrated pizzeria in greater New Haven, sticking to generations of tradition.
In 1934, bread-baker Dominic Zuppardi moved his business, Salerno Bakery, to what is now Zuppardi’s landmark Union Street location in West Haven. When he had a stroke in the late 1940s, his son Anthony took over and focused on pizza, specializing in plain tomato pies and eventually adding more toppings like housemade fennel sausage.
Anthony’s children (including Ormrod's mother, Lori) and grandchildren now run the pizzeria. The sausage is still a best-seller, along with a white clam pie featuring fresh bivalves shucked to order. A white pie with escarole and beans is another favorite.
Zuppardi's in Ansonia will be open Wednesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 203751-9006.