Neapolitan Pizza Shop Now Open In Hyde Park

CHICAGO, IL - Hyde Park now has an option for Neapolitan pizza. Nella Pizza e Pasta opened recently at a space at 1125 E. 55th St. and is open seven days a week. It's the creation of Nella Grassano, who recently closed her pizza shop in Lincoln Park and has now reopened at the University of Chicago space.

Grassano has expanded the menu from her Lincoln Park days and is proud to call herself "the pioneer" of Neapolitan pizza on the South Side in an ABC-7 Chicago feature from the Hungry Hound, Steve Dolinsky.

Reviews on Facebook, which date back to September 2017, so far have been mostly positive.

"Food was incredible, fresh and delicious," one woman wrote. "We went for an early dinner. They made a pizza in the shape of a bunny for the 2 year old."

The new eatery's website calls Nella "an Italian restaurant in every way."

"It's not an American caricature of an Italian restaurant."

Nella is open from 10:30 a.m. until 10 p.m. from Sunday through Thursday and from 10:30 a.m. through 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

Photo: Nella Pizza e Pasta