Chef David Chang Plans At Least One Pizza Run While He's In Hartford For CT Forum
>>"Collectively as a town, New Haven has some of the best pizza," Chang said in a recent phone interview. "I've always thought that. Even when we were freshmen. Anytime we'd go past New Haven...and sometimes we'd drive there, get it and come back. It was something I'd eat on the regular."
And his favorites? "I think Bar is good...Sally's is great, too, but my favorite pie is the Pepe's clam pizza. With bacon. You've got to get it with bacon."<<
>>New Haven pizza earned a prominent spot on the first episode of Chang's 2018 Netflix documentary series, "Ugly Delicious," described as a "mouthwatering, cross-cultural hunt for the world's most satisfying grub." Each of the eight episodes highlights one particular food or topic, including pizza, tacos, barbecue and fried chicken. The premiere episode found Chang wearing a Hartford Whalers T-shirt as he visited Brooklyn pizzeria Lucali and interviewed its chef and owner, Mark Iacono.
"I think New Haven pizza, as a community, has the best pizza in America," Chang told Iacono, who said he had never experienced Connecticut pies. "It's a surprising statement, I understand, but you've got to check it out." Later in the episode, Iacono traveled to Wooster Street to meet Pepe's co-owner Gary Bimonte, grandson of the founder. <<