Santillo's Brick Oven Pizza
Legendary Pizza From a Third-Generation Pizza Maker
Al Santillo is pizza royalty. A third-generation pizza maker, he first started working the pizza oven at age five, helping his father Alfred make dough at the family pizzeria & bakery, which was founded in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1918 and moved into its current location in 1957. Al took over the family business in the 1980s, and he’s become a legend in the world of pizza since then. Al famously makes every one of his pizzas himself in his brick oven, and Santillo’s has gone down as a pilgrimage-worthy pizza landmark.
Sadly, tragedy struck in January 2024, when a fire destroyed the storied pizzeria and badly damaged the prized hundred-plus year-old brick oven. Al has vowed to rebuild, and in the meantime he’s set up shop in a nearby pizza parlor, where he continues to make every pizza, by hand, using the same tried-and-true techniques he’s spent the past 60-plus years perfecting. And now, for the first time ever, Al Santillo’s legendary pizzas are shipping nationwide!
