Grimaldi’s Coal Brick-Oven Pizzeria

In the world of pizza, Grimaldi's is an institution that has garnered more awards than any other pizzeria in the country with more celebrity sightings than most 5-star restaurants. Using only the freshest ingredients, a secret recipe pizza sauce, handmade mozzarella cheese and dough, Grimaldi's serves traditional pizza (as it began in Naples, Italy) in an upscale yet casual, family oriented pizzeria. The intense heat of the oven evenly bakes the pies to create Grimaldi's famous crispy and smoky thin crust that Zagat has voted best pizza year after year.

Grimaldi's signature brick oven is the heart of our restaurant and what creates our unique flavor and crispy crust. To maintain the quality of their award-winning pizza, we tend to our ovens twice a day: Once in the morning and again in the afternoon. Tending to the oven is called stoking, and it is a pizza making tradition that goes back over 100 years. Their stoking process consists of knocking down any old coal and ash inside the ovens. We then rebuild the fire, clean and reset. Next, the oven is reheated to the perfect temperature to craft our award-winning pizzas. During this stoking process, pizzas are not available to order. Grimaldi's does offer additional menu options including starters, salads, draft beers and wines for you to enjoy while the oven heats.