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NOW OPEN: Savas Brick Oven Pizza

POSTED: Friday, April 23, 2010, 5:53 PM

Filed Under: Menu Time | Openings | Photos

Photos | Drew Lazor

Savvas Navrosidis, owner of Fairmount Pizza (2000 Fairmount Ave.) and Alessandro's Pizza (655 N. Broad St.) quietly opened his Savas Brick Oven Pizza (35th and Lancaster) in Powelton Village about three weeks ago. The space itself, formerly a hookah bar place called Mokas, is partitioned into several sections — the kitchen's situated behind a grab-and-go slice counter that also features mix-a-sixers to go. Then there's a bar area with high-top seating, in addition to several dedicated dining areas that handle the restaurant's mixed-up ebb and flow of Drexel kids and neighborhood folks. Though he's been making pies about 30 years, Navrosidis says perfecting his crust for a true-blue brick pizza oven has been challenging — he's still trimming and tweaking his recipes and ratios. Right now he's doing more than a dozen varieties, spanning from the time-tested Margherita (above) to Hawaiian and Greek (roasted peppers, kalamata olives, feta, anchovies). Also on the menu, which you can check out in full after the jump: signature (and gigantic) stromboli, char-broiled burgers, hoagies, salads, pitas, panini and Italian-style entrÃ©es. Navrosidis' wife, Maria, is responsible for cooking up the homemade Greek portion of the pizzeria's menu, which should expand a bit in the coming months. Right now she's doing pastitsio (tube pasta, ground meat sauce, bechamel), stuffed peppers and tomatoes and souvlaki, and has put together a couple other native delicacies as specials. We tried a bowl of her delicious revithia (above), an all-vegetarian, lemon broth-based soup full up with chickpeas and baby spinach — it's so flavorful you'll swear it's spiked with chicken stock. It's not. So worth coming back for. Savas, which does coffee and free WiFi, is situating itself as an a.m. cafÃ© option in addition to a lunch/dinner/drinking spot. Hours: Sun.-Thu., 9 am.-1 a.m.; Fri.-Sat., 9 a.m.-2 a.m. UPDATE: Added a few photos of the interior after the jump.

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