Pizza (216) in the Press

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September 30, 2015 - Checking In On Simmering Projects and Restaurant Launches Crossing the Finish Line This Fall

Pizza lovers will have their pick from traditional and creatively topped thin-crust pizzas baked in a 700-plus degree brick oven. One, a carbonara-style pie, has a vodka cream sauce base and is topped with parsley, garlic, fresh peas, Parmesan cheese and sliced prosciutto.

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July 21, 2015 - 5 Cleveland Restaurants Bringing Pizza to the People

Relatively unknown to most at the festival, this place finished second even while losing out on a day of voting. Partners Johnny Lis and Brad Wiescinski will open the brick-and-mortar pizza palace of the same name this fall in the Old Arcade across from the Corner Alley.

Cleveland Scene

June 16, 2015 - New York-Style Pizza Shop Coming to Heart of Downtown

One of the surprise hits of the weekend turned out to be an unknown player called Pizza (216), who earned second place in the rankings despite the fact that they lost nearly a day of voting.

Cleveland Scene

June 17, 2015 - New York-Style Pizza Shop Coming to Downtown Cleveland

When Pizza (216) opens in late fall, it will specialize in New York-style thin-crust pizzas cooked in a 700-plus degree brick oven. While customers can come in and order a pie topped with any combination they’d like, the shop’s wheelhouse is specialty pies like the ones they were dishing up at the Pizza Fest.