Montrose’s latest pizzeria has quietly opened its doorways. Nonno’s Family Pizza Tavern started its cushy opening this week.
Located in the former Revelry on Richmond house, Nonno’s is the latest undertaking from Martin and Sara Stayer, the husband-and-wife duo at the back of 2021 CultureMap Tastemaker Awards Restaurant of the Year winner Nobie’s and The Toasted Coconut, the tiki-inspired eating place and bar that occupies the similar buying groceries heart as Nonno’s. That proximity fueled the couple’s passion in the house when Revelry closed closing summer season.
“It started as a joke. Like, we could do a pizza shop next door to Toasted,” Martin Stayer tells CultureMap. “Fun jokes about something next door that will never happen. When [the landlord] told us they’d have the space available, here we are now. Joke comes to life.”
The couple temporarily settled on serving tavern-style pizza. It’s a skinny crust pizza that’s in style in Sara’s place of birth of Chicago. Instead of conventional slices, the pizza will get a sq. reduce that turns it into smaller, virtually bite-size items which can be simple to percentage.
“I also think it’s a really light and crushable style of pizza that’s fun for when you’re getting together with friends,” Stayer says. “In Chicago, that’s where I fell in love with it, it’s really nice when some people want to drink and some people want to eat. Here’s a place you can do both and have a good time.”
For now, the menu contains six set pizzas, together with sausage with Giardiniera, a white pie with broccoli and garlic butter, a meat fanatics, and a Hawiian. Diners too can construct their very own from a template of 3 sauces, 4 types of cheese, six proteins, and 9 greens. People can go for classics like pepperoni and sausage or pass just a little farther off the crushed trail with toppings similar to marinated broccoli, Spam, and capicola.
“It’s easy to eat a lot of it and not fill up. It is the kid friendly pizza cause there’s no real crust on it,” Stayer provides.
The leisure of the menu is lovely kid-friendly, too. It contains pizzeria classics like rooster wings and mozzarella sticks, in addition to salads and a pair of entrees. Those in search of a thicker crust will discover a Sicialian-style grandma pie that’s offered by-the-slice. Over time, the menu will upload pastas and subs.
“All comfort-y, low brow, nothing pretentious on the menu,” Stayer says. “We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel. Just a good a version of something you’ve had before.”
Beverage possibility features a wine record that’s heavy on Italian varietals, beer, and cocktails — each on draft and frozen — which can be designed to be delivered temporarily.
All that consuming and ingesting occurs in a retro-inspired room that channels severe Gen-X nostalgia.The Stayers labored with native company Gin Design Group on the internal, which contains expansive cubicles, Tiffany lamps sourced from a Pizza Hut, and panels alongside the bar which can be encouraged by means of antique audio system.
The spotlight of the internal is an arcade stocked with two vintage video video games from the ‘90s — Rampage and Cruis’n — as well as three pinball machines sourced from Joystix in downtown. A table top machine by the bar has been loaded with a few dozen ‘80s classics including Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Galaga. In keeping with the retro theme, the machines still operate on quarters, which the restaurant will stock. Diners will be able to add a roll of quarters to their tab.
“Rampage was a great choice. It’s 3 participant. You can paintings in combination or towards each and every different,” Stayer notes. “Cruisin was a no-brainer. The second we walked in there our kids bolted to it.”
For now, the eating place is open for dinner starting at 4 pm Tuesday-Sunday. In time, the eating place plans to upload lunch provider and to-go orders via a devoted pickup window. The preliminary reaction from the eating place’s preliminary services and products has Stayer feeling assured about Nonno’s long run.
“Everyone talks about a recession. Pizza is always going to have a place,” he says. “It doesn’t matter how broke everyone is they always want pizza night. You might stop going to Nobie’s, but you probably won’t stop going to get pizza.”
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