Pizzeria Vittoria Is Trading Naples for New York — And Savannah Should Pay Attention
Kyle Jacovino doesn’t do things halfway. He rolled into Savannah back in 2013 to open The Florence, and pizza was always the thing simmering in the background for him — the dish he loved most, waiting for its moment. That moment came when he opened Pizzeria Vittoria Napoletana, and in the years since, it’s become the standard everyone else in town gets measured against. Best pizza in Georgia, according to Food & Wine. Countless other accolades stacked up behind that. If you wanted true Neapolitan — the char, the puffy cornicione, the naturally leavened dough done right — Vittoria was the only address in Savannah that mattered.
Seven years later, you can bet Kyle has heard plenty of whispers, quietly and otherwise, that the masses want a great New York style slice of pizza. Not a knockoff. Not a gas-station approximation. The real thing — foldable, blistered on the bottom, big enough that one piece is basically a meal.
I’ve wondered for months how Kyle was going to handle pizza at his original Starland Yard location while doing the same pies around the corner at his fairly newbie Lucia Pasta Bar. That’s a lot of pizza in a small radius. I wasn’t the only one to wonder, either…