When is apizza more than a pizza?

When you've left your roots three thousand miles away and you crave the comfort that only food and memories can provide, then it's time to go back for a visit to the Best Pizza in the World.

My first memory of Pepe's resides in the dim blur of my childhood: my 24-year-old dad (RIP) sitting me up on the bar while he ordered clams on the half shell and chatted with friends. (See Families section)

My most recent memory of Pepe's is from April of 2018, when my mom and I enjoyed a clam pie during my weekend trip back to Connecticut.

In the 70 years between those two visits to Pepe's I have grown up and moved away. I have my own children who have their own memories of New Haven. But Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana still keeps its ovens fired up back on Wooster Street.

And I can't come home without a taste of the Best Pizza in the World.

Howard Goldbaum

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Disclaimers:
Aside from a sentimental and gastronomic devotion going back to the early 1950s, this site has no affiliation with Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana.

This Pepes website was first created in 2004, and re-worked in 2018 with HTML5 VR instead of the original QuickTime VR, and video instead of some interactive Macromedia Shockwave content. Other than that, all photos, Flash animations, audio, and other content is from 2004.

The introductory animation does not depict Wooster Street literally. To re-play it, click here.