Natasha Phillips to open up Romo’s Pizza at the Prado in Macon

Natasha Phillips ideas to open a new cafe in Macon offering Neapolitan pizza cooked in a wood-burning oven.

“We’ll have some vintage Italian-type pizzas, a couple of appetizers and a pair of pastas,” reported Phillips, who owns Fountain of Juice, a smoothie and sandwich shop in the Prado shopping heart on Forsyth Highway.

Her new restaurant, Romo’s Pizza, is positioned subsequent door in the previous Barberitos and is named immediately after her youngest son, Roman, who turns 12 on Feb. 4. His nickname is Romo.

Phillips had hoped to open up in time for his birthday but she’s now taking pictures for the 2nd 7 days in February.

The new cafe attributes a Forno Bravo wood-burning oven, an Italian brand name produced in California, she said.

“It’s a large oven,” Phillips mentioned. “It will get up to 800 levels and can cook like five pizzas at at the time in about four minutes flat.”

Cooking with a wooden-burning oven offers the pizza a lot more flavor, she said.

“We’ll do some traditional Italian like the margherita and then we’ll have like the fantastic arugula-prosciutto topper pizza,” Phillips stated. “We’ll have Italian sausage and like a white pizza and mushroom pizza.

“We’re hoping to adhere to classic Italian design.”

The restaurant is about 2,600 sq. toes and is designed to “look aged college common,” Phillips stated.

“It’s dim, dark like an old Shakey’s and Godfather’s — if you’re old plenty of to don’t forget that — and then we have loads of photographs of just the metropolis of the place my mom is from, Sulmona.”

Natalia del Basso Orsini, her mom, is a native of Italy and founded Natalia’s restaurant in Macon in 1984 — providing the very well-acknowledged Italian restaurant a handful of many years ago. Sulmona is situated in the Abruzzo region of central Italy

“All pictures and image wallpapers in Romo’s are by Daniel Underwood, my mom’s spouse,” Phillips reported.

The new cafe has a smaller place intended for kids with a pinball machine and a Galaga arcade match.

Phillips ideas to keep the foodstuff moderately priced. She’ll provide only a one-sized pizza, a substantial, with a price tag assortment of $16 to $19 a pizza. Salads and appetizers will vary from $6 to $8.

Running hours will be from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday via Thursday, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.

“It’s an open up-principle kitchen area so you can see the pizza oven, which is kind of interesting,” Phillips said.