De Lorenzo’s Tomato Pies


“Once you think you know everything,” Gary Amico says, “that’s when things go bad.” The De Lorenzo’s pizza lineage goes back four generations to Italian immigrants Pasquale and Maria De Lorenzo, who helped their four sons (Jimmy, Joe, Johnny and Alexander or “Chick”) open a tomato pie restaurant in 1936. Eventually, Chick opened his own…

Papa’s Tomato Pies

The oldest family-owned pizzeria in the United States turned 100 last year. Papa’s Tomato Pies (papastomatopies.com) wasn’t the first pizzeria in Trenton, New Jersey, when it opened in 1912, but it’s the only one still standing today—more than a century later. Naples transplant Giuseppe (“Joe”) Papa was only 17 years old when he opened the pizzeria’s…