New pizza cafe opening in Macon will make their pies in wooden-burning oven

Jan. 27—Natasha Phillips ideas to open up a new restaurant in Macon offering Neapolitan pizza cooked in a wood-burning oven.

“We’ll have some common Italian-model pizzas, a few appetizers and a few of pastas,” explained Phillips, who owns Fountain of Juice, a smoothie and sandwich shop in the Prado buying centre on Forsyth Highway.

Her new cafe, Romo’s Pizza, is positioned following doorway in the former Barberitos and is named soon 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 capturing for the next 7 days in February.

The new cafe capabilities a Forno Bravo wood-burning oven, an Italian brand made in California, she said.

“It is really a enormous oven,” Phillips reported. “It will get up to 800 levels and can cook like 5 pizzas at at the time in about four minutes flat.”

Cooking with a wood-burning oven provides the pizza much more taste, she said.

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

“We’re hoping to adhere to common Italian style.”

The cafe is about 2,600 square ft and is intended to “seem outdated university common,” Phillips stated.

“It truly is dim, dim like an old Shakey’s and Godfather’s — if you might be old plenty of to try to remember that — and then we have heaps of photographs of just the city of in which my mom is from, Sulmona.”

Natalia del Basso Orsini, her mom, is a native of Italy and founded Natalia’s cafe in Macon in 1984 — offering the nicely-identified Italian cafe a couple of yrs in the past. Sulmona is located in the Abruzzo area of central Italy

“All photographs and picture wallpapers in Romo’s are by Daniel Underwood, my mom’s husband,” Phillips reported.

The new restaurant has a modest space developed for children with a pinball equipment and a Galaga arcade game.

Phillips programs to keep the foodstuff reasonably priced. She’ll give only a a person-sized pizza, a large, with a value array of $16 to $19 a pizza. Salads and appetizers will selection from $6 to $8.

Operating hrs will be from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday by means of Thursday, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.

“It is really an open up-thought kitchen area so you can see the pizza oven, which is type of neat,” Phillips reported.