And Pepe’s has attracted a long list of celebrity pizza aficionados, including Yale Law graduate Bill Clinton.
With Pepe’s, these pizzerias make up the trinity of New Haven pizzerias, Caplan said.Ĭaplan says that Frank Sinatra and John F. Modern Apizza also opened during the 1930s.
“Apizza” is the local Italian-American term synonymous with the New Haven pizza style.
Frank Pepe’s nephew Salvatore Consiglio started Sally’s Apizza in 1938, right down Wooster Street from his uncle’s place.
