Associazione Pizzaiuoli Napoletani to Open NYC Restaurant, Pizza School

Posted by Adam Kuban, January 5, 2009 at 6:25 PM

The Associazione Pizzaiuoli Napoletani, the Italian "pizza police" (they certify pizzerias as being authentically Neapolitan), is opening a restaurant and pizza school. It will be called Kesté Pizza e Vino and hopes to be open by the end of February, according to the New York Times.

And then, according to an email I just got from Roberto Caporusico at the Associazione itself, "Down the road we also expect to have classes for nonprofessional 'pizza lovers.'"

That would mean you and me, folks.

What up with the name? Caporusico explains: "Kesté (spelled 'cheste é') means 'This is it!' in the Neapolitan dialect."

271 Bleecker Street, New York NY 10014 (between Jones and Cornelia streets; map)

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