Pizza: A Love Story

Pizza wasn't invented in New Haven. It was perfected there.

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|2019|86 min

It's the most loved food in America. And we want to tell you a story about three pizza places in the town of New Haven, Connecticut that you may or may not have heard of. They're named: Sally's Apizza, Frank Pepe's Pizzeria Napoletana, and Modern Apizza, and they are generally considered to be three of the finest pizza restaurants on the planet.

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