Yo Trent! How Far Back Do You Go In Trenton?

[Kelly Green]

Used to be a well known pizza shop that had a wood-fired pizza oven. I don't know the address but I remember you came off the "Trenton Makes" bridge and took the second freeway underpass to the right -- follow that street to a light at this cable-making plant, make a left to the end of that street, take a right and the place was about two blocks on the right.

It was the first time I had ever tasted pizza made in a wood-fired oven and it was out of this UNIVERSE good -- I can't imagine it's still there, however, with all the changes they made to the city.

[Eagle Road]

La Villa's?

[Loki]

Papa Johan?

[muggz]

Cici's

[Bardy]

Dominic I. Nose

[TRENT]

I'm 3rd gen...yes I do remember a couple places down there

but the name of that place eludes me,,,that really wasn't an Italian area of Trenton...was it on a Street corner in a Bar possibly? Might have been down on Lalor St. another place had a brick over was Pizza plaza but that was later.

Delorenzos Tomato Pies was down on Hudson, Possibly it was there. They closed and the son opened a beautiful place in Robbinsville Nj, was just there; them, Marucas and lesser Know Joey's those were the famous places.

[Phoward12]

DiGiornos, probably.

[Ben Sufferin2long]

Marucas?

Used to be a well known pizza shop that had a wood-fired pizza oven. I don't know the address but I remember you came off the "Trenton Makes" bridge and took the second freeway underpass to the right -- follow that street to a light at this cable-making plant, make a left to the end of that street, take a right and the place was about two blocks on the right.

It was the first time I had ever tasted pizza made in a wood-fired oven and it was out of this UNIVERSE good -- I can't imagine it's still there, however, with all the changes they made to the city.

I am from around that way as well... Could it be Marucas? They were big in T Town in the 50's but have since moved to Seaside.
It is still tough to beat a Trenton pie...

[TRENT]

They Never had a place with a brick or wood oven though

and I know that family very well,the twins Joey and Dominick,,their Grandfather had his place just off of Greenwood Ave..we had a liquor store on Greenwood,,we sold the them wine,,we ate their Pie every friday night like clock work...it was NY neapolitan style Pie,,,the shore Pie is diff. But to anyone who would like to try a delicious Pie,,try Marucas down Seaside...you will not be disappointed,,your wallet might get light though!:D

[Drama Queen]

Ellio's

[3rd & Inches]

Another post about food KG. Back away from the fridge.

[TRENT]

HeY KG, Here's a little brain food

I asked my father who just turned 85 and lived in Trenton his whole life, say's he never remembers a place near the Trenton Makes Bridge,

not exactly what I was looking for,, but here is a good read about Trenton Tomato Pie.

As Italians emigrated from Italy to the United States of America in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they brought with them their cuisine and introduced pizza to America. In 1905, Gennaro Lombardi opened the first official pizzeria in America in Brooklyn at 53⅓ Spring Street, called Pizzeria Napoletana (Ibid). He had a coal-fired stove and offered one style of pizza, the Neapolitan-style with mozzarella, tomatoes, and a thick, chewy crust. Known as Don Gennaro, he was the first American pizzaiolo and is known today as America’s “Patriarca della Pizza” (Patriarch of Pizza) (Levine).

The second documented pizzeria, Joe’s Tomato Pies, opened in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1910. The dish roughly followed the recipe for Neapolitan pizza, but it also possessed a unique Trenton twist. Nick Azzaro, the grandson of Joe Papa, one of the founding fathers of the Trenton pizza, relates the following tale that could account for the origin of the tomato pie: “The story was they (his grandfather and his partners) were making bread, and they put some sliced tomatoes on it, and cooked it, and that was it.” (Capuzzo). Compared to other types of pizza, the Trenton pizzas were put together in reverse order, with the cheese and toppings first and then the tomato sauce, so the customers could really taste the seasoned, crushed plum tomatoes (Ibid). Enamored customers called this kind of pizza a “tomato pie.”