First Look: The Bay Area’s Best Pizza Chef Just Launched a New East Bay Restaurant, and Lines Are Out the Door

Not every pizza restaurant opening has lines down the block, a prosciutto tasting stand, and its own professional DJ.

But not every pizza place is run by the legendary Tony Gemignani. This wizard of Bay Area pizza is widely recognized as the best pizza chef in California, and among the best in the world.

Gemignani has won the World Pizza Championship 13 times, holds four pizza-related Guinness World Records, and even claimed the World Champion Pizza Maker title in Naples, Italy–a near impossibility for an American.

Of course, the most important accolade is that we the Bay Area Telegraph declared Gemignani’s restaurants the Best NY Pizza in the Bay Area back in 2024!…

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