We all know pizza doesn't grow out of the ground. But there's an apropos reason why Pepe Burby has named his latest restaurant Hartford Pizza Garden.
In addition to offering three classic pizza styles, including acclaimed New Haven style, Burby and his business partner, Bryan Dubay, will hydroponically grow herbs, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, and micro greens right on premises.
The ingredients will be used in their pizza, salads, and pub-style food. "I want to create healthier food with my fresh ingredients," Burby said. "I'm not keeping this the average pizza place." The restaurant, open just a few weeks, offers three pizza styles: New Haven, Detroit, and Grandma's Pizza in honor of a now late maternal grandmother of Fern, who raised him.
To learn how to make the famous thin-crusted, charred New Haven style pizza Burby said he visited Sally's, Pepe's, Modern in New Haven, then studied the art of making it on YouTube while he "smoked a lot of pot." He calls that pie Hartford Haven.
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