A Sicilian pizza only available in Columbus for one weekend and the man whose recipe brought it to life. The Festival Pizza—a Columbus Italian Festival staple that has Central Ohio returning to the Italian Village for more than 20 years now.
From the thick Sicilian crust, to the gallons of rich, homemade sauce, The Festival Pizza topped with Grande cheese and old-world pepperoni has become one of those foods that almost 40,000 Italian Festival attendees wait all year to enjoy. And it’s all thanks to one man, the “Godfather of Festival Pizza”—Vince Militello.
While the Italian Festival began in 1980, Militello’s pizza journey began in 2001 in a similar path of many other Italian families…