<h2>What Makes Our Pizza Authentic?</h2>

Naples is the birthplace of pizza, and Neapolitan pizza captures the pure essence of this simple and delicious Italian food. True Neopolitan pizza (or D.O.C. pizza, which stands for 'Denominazione di Origine Controllata') is so pure, there are only a handful of restaurants in the US  to make it - and Stuzzi is one of them. 

Our wood fired oven was hand built, on site, <strong>to exacting standards</strong>.  The oven's unique "beehive" design allows the temperature to be maintained at a blistering 1000+ degrees Fahrenheit -- hot enough to turn raw dough, tomatoes, cheese and basil into a blistering bubbling pizza in about sixty seconds.  In other pizza restaurants, it would take more like eight to 10 minutes! 

Our dough is made using a low gluten, silky flour imported from Naples, Italy.  This flour is all natural with no additives or preservatives, and is used by the most highly rated Pizzerie in Naples. Imported tomatoes from the San Marzano region, grown in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius in rich volcanic soil, provide our natural sauce.  We use only only fresh, whole milk “fior di latte”, mozzarella cheese -- the best!

The pizza dough spends all night and all morning rising, and it will still take the pizza maker a minute to knead and stretch your piece into the shape he envisions. The fresh mozzarella is shaped by an artisan's hands. The tomatoes are crushed by human fingers.  And you thought pizza was fast food!

The painstaking preparation of the equipment and ingredients is just the prelude for when the pizzaioli – or pizza chef -- steps to the marble counter, dusts it with flour and cues the symphony of tomato, mozzarella and basil. In just one minute, he's firing a Neapolitan pizza from a wooden peel into the red-hot oven. In another minute,  it's on your plate -- hot, fresh, healthy, pure and delicious.