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NOW OPEN: Pizzeria DiMeo's
There's a serious oven cranking up Andorra way - Pizzeria DiMeo's, located in the shopping center at Henry and Ridge (8500 Henry Ave.), is pie-ing up the hills with father/son team Pino and Antimo DiMeo wielding the peels.
NOW OPEN: Pizzeria DiMeo's
There's a serious oven cranking up Andorra way — Pizzeria DiMeo's, located in the shopping center at Henry and Ridge (8500 Henry Ave.), is pie-ing up the hills with father/son team Pino and Antimo DiMeo wielding the peels.
Pino has owned/operated a number of casual by-the-slice pizza parlors since landing in the area from Italy in 1988, but this location is the DiMeo clan's first to truly dedicate itself to the Neapolitan approach, something I learned plenty about when writing this 2010 story on Philly's pizza culture. Pino's hometown is strict about the starting ingredients of its dough — double-zero flour, yeast and water only (don't you dare put olive oil in there!) — and the shop is taking it even further, importing tomatoes, mozzarella and even bottled agua from Italy for their stuff. (It's a heated point of contention among pizzaioli, but Antimo swears up and down the H2O makes a huge difference.) They're plating them by the minute-and-a-half in a very clearly labeled 900-degree oven that burns oak.
The menu (PDF) is heavy on pies, which range from the requisite Margherita to meatier diversions like the Nonna Maria, draped with prosciutto, broccoli rabe, cherry tomatoes and bufala mozzarella. But there's also a wealth of antipasti and pasta options, the latter section featuring several dishes made with dry pasta from the Neapolitan province of Gragnano, specifically a high-end paccheri from the Giuseppe Alfeltra label. Please get Pino's signature zucca, a sweet-and-meaty sauce of ground sausage and buternut squash. Then finish with espresso accompanied by a twist and rock candy on a stick.
Pizzeria DiMeo's is open Monday to Wednesday from 10 to 9, Thursday to Saturday from 10 to 10 and Sunday from 11 to 9. It's BYO for dine-in, and they also do takeout, delivery and catering: 215-621-6134.
http://archives.citypaper.net/articles/2010/07/22/philadelphia-pizza
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