Wichita has access to Neapolitan-style pizza at Piatto. It can get Detroit-style pizza at Good Company Taps & Spirits. And it will be able to sample Arkansas-style pizza when the new Pinnacle Pizza opens later this month at 832 N. Webb Road.
Now Wichita — the birthplace of Pizza Hut — is about to get a pizza restaurant specializing in yet another type of pizza: New Haven style.
Tom Geagan, who since 2023 has been running a portable pizza business called Tommy’s Apizza (pronounced “ahbeetz”), is opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant of the same name. He’s taking over the space at 2330 E. Douglas that previously was home to Varsity Barbershop. It’s on the northeast corner of Douglas and Grove, right across the street from East High School, and in the early 1980s, it’s where The Spice Merchant operated.
Geagan, who just left his job as head of video production at Koch Inc. so he could devote his full attention to the restaurant, said he hopes to have it open in mid-April…