Old Ellicott City is getting ready to welcome a new restaurant to Tiber Alley off Main Street, and the concept is hot garbage. Hot Garbage Pizza, that is.
Geoff Gill previewed two of the made-from-scratch pizzas at Saturday morning’s Old Ellicott City’s Farmers Market. Gill was busy from start to finish making the pizzas inspired by his grandmother, who used to have regular pizza nights. In addition to standard pizzas, one of the pizzas would have all the leftovers from the meals from the week, and that was called the “garbage” pizza.
“It was always the best one,” Gill told Baltimore Fishbowl in a phone call. “So, we’ve had an idea for doing something that honored my grandmother for a very long time, and for a while it was just the pipe dream that my wife and I talked about, of whether it’s a food truck or a restaurant or something. I’m from an Italian family, so I do all the cooking in our household.”
Gill’s grandmother taught his mother how to cook, and his mother taught him. His grandmother died a few years ago, and he describes her as courageous, sharp, funny with a dry sense of humor, and says she was his drinking buddy. He recalled a trip to Italy with his mother and grandparents where everywhere they went, people left limoncello out on the table…