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Message: [QUOTE="8893, post: 3360019, member: 93"] Harry's was owned by three people: Harry, Mark and Barbara. If I remember the story correctly, they met when they were working at Hot Tomatoes in Hartford, when that place was in its heyday and they were making really good money. They heard that there was good profit in pizza and they knew that Hartford was lacking, especially as compared with New Haven, so they decided to open a pizza place. They knew Pepe's was regarded as the best, so Mark and/or Harry worked there just long enough to get some insight on the ingredients and preparation, and together with Barbara they opened a takeout only place on Capital Avenue in Hartford. The place did a booming business and they expanded out to a full service restaurant on Farmington Ave. in West Hartford center (next to Lavery Appliance), where they thrived for many years. The pizza was always solid (it has many mentions in this thread) and the place was great; they had standard pizza ovens though, so they never achieved the char you get with coal or wood fired ovens. I believe Barbara was married to Mark initially, but then they divorced and she married Harry. I think she had children with each of them, and she split from and reconciled with Harry few times before finally ending it in a less-than-amicable split with Harry, but she remained business partners with Mark and they opened one or more "Barb's Pizza" or something like that. I have no idea who owns what now, or how many establishments any of them have. [/QUOTE]

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