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Pizza
The Old Way
Il Lazzarone (pronounced “lazzaˈroni”) is a family-owned Neapolitan pizzeria.
We pride ourselves on the highest quality ingredients and follows the law of traditional Neapolitan wood-fired pizza using only four simple ingredients in the dough and cooking the pizza in under 90 seconds. Il Lazzarone is one of 77 locations in the entire United States with official certification.
Il Lazzarone opened their first location on Frederick Avenue in March of 2014 and their second location in the Kansas City Rivermarket in March of 2015.
The lazzaroni were the street folk of Naples. In fact, they were the ones who in essence invented pizza.
It is said that when a lazzaroni had worked long enough to afford a Neapolitan pizza and a bottle of wine, he is done working for the day. The il lazzaroni embodied the true Italian spirit of relaxation and community which is what we try to do here.
Acunto Marios
Ovens
Made on the main street of Naples, Italy by a fifth-generation oven builder.
Our Acunto ovens are handmade with soil from the base of Mount Vesuvius. They are wood-fired and imported from Naples, Italy. For true Neapolitan pizza you must have a wood fired oven capable of achieving over 800 degrees constant temperatures. The mouth of the oven and the oven dome height must all be constructed within specific ratios to achieve a true pizza Napoletana.
The first Acunto Mario Oven imported to America is bakes every pizza at our
Saint Joseph location.
Quality
Ingredients
Our Neapolitan style pizza features the freshest and most pure ingredients, quality ingredients. Our dough is some of the rarest and most traditional in the world, made with only four ingredients: yeast, flour, water, and salt. Once the dough has been mixed, it is left to naturally leaven and then shaped by hand.
Flour & Dough
Quality
Ingredients
San Marzano tomatoes are a very rare tomato native to Italy. At il Lazzarone, we use only DOP certified San Marzano tomatoes which ensures the tomatoes are grown around the base of Mt. Vesuvius in a soil extremely rich in minerals. This very soil is where the material for the oven is harvested and made into bricks for our oven’s hearth and dome, creating a symbiotic relationship between ingredient and oven.
Sauce
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