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After struggling through a tough stretch in downtown Lake Worth and then a long wait for his new space to be built out, New Haven-style pizza maven-slash-restaurateur Nick Laudano has finally opened his showpiece eatery, Nick’s New Haven-Style Pizzeria & Bar (2240 NW 19th St., 561-368-2900).
The spacious (4,600 square feet) Boca Raton restaurant is a far cry from the tiny Lake Worth Nick’s, sporting a look done by noted Fort Lauderdale designer Karen Hanlon that harks back to an earlier era, from the 1920s to the 1960s. A 1940s-style kitchen pantry, ceiling plastered with period advertising, and tile-faced brick ovens designed by Laudano are among the features, as are a lounge, bar, outdoor patio and take-out window.
The menu features, naturally, New Haven-style “apizza” (pronounced
a-BEETS)–a thin-crusted pie, blistered around the edges from the fierce
heat of the brick ovens (here heated to 750 degrees plus)–that became
the pie of choice in New Haven, Conn.
In addition to the
signature tomato sauceless white clam pizza, the menu boasts a variety
of specialty pies, along with calzones, pastas, salads, grinders,
panini, wraps ‘n’ apps. Pizza prices range from $11.50 for a basic small
to $25 for an everything but the kitchen sink large.
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