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Don Antonio

Don Antonio was opened in 2012 by Roberto Caporuscio with his mentor Antonio Starita of Naples' Starita a Materdei, founded in 1901, and is now run by Roberto's daughter Giorgia Caporuscio. It bakes at roughly 850°F in a wood-fired oven and is particularly known for pizza fritta (fried, then oven-finished dough).

309 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10019 · New York · Neapolitan · est. 2012

A pizza cooking at the mouth of a wood-fired oven, flames rising behind it.
From Don Antonio

Why it is here

Don Antonio was opened in 2012 by Roberto Caporuscio with his mentor Antonio Starita of Naples' Starita a Materdei, founded in 1901, and is now run by Roberto's daughter Giorgia Caporuscio. It bakes at roughly 850°F in a wood-fired oven and is particularly known for pizza fritta (fried, then oven-finished dough).

What to order

Montanara (pizza fritta)

What we looked at

Wood-fired oven reaching roughly 850°FDirect lineage to Starita a Materdei in Naples, founded 1901Current pizzaiola Giorgia Caporuscio trained by her father Roberto Caporuscio and his mentor Antonio Starita