ELIZABETH, N.J. (PIX11) — There’s no topping a job like this: repairing one of New Jersey’s most storied brick pizza ovens dating back over a century.
“This is the biggest pizza oven in the State of New Jersey by far,” said Al Santillo, owner of Santillo’s Brick Oven Pizza. “I didn’t know how hard this job was gonna be.”
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Santillo has not given up on rebuilding his famous shop after a fire gutted it in January 2024. The rebuild has allowed Santillo and others to get a rare inside look at our area’s history.
“That [brick] was made on the banks of the Raritan River,” said Santillo, pointing to one of the vertically laid bricks on the arch of his oven…