SoNo Wood Fired Opens in South Norwalk: Neapolitan Pizza + Italian Soul Food Features Interview Restaurant Norwalk South Norwalk Pizza Neapolitan pizza Homepage Italian Openings Andrew Dominick March 12, 2023 Thin crust. Roman style. Pan pizza. Bar pies. Artisan. Grilled. Foldable New York slices.Norwalk has all of that. And you can insert your own quip about there being “too much Italian” if you want.What Norwalk has been missing in its dining history is a true wood-fired Neapolitan pizzeria.Check that. “Had been missing.”Newly opened on N Main Street is SoNo Wood Fired, where owner and pizzaiolo Besnar Kaba ferments, forms, stretches, and tops each pie, then slides each one using a long peel into his 800° Forza Forni Pavesi.Kaba is meticulous about it, though. He will only cook three or so doughs at a time, turning them feverishly for 90 seconds to two minutes, to achieve that perfect leopard spotted char that’s indicative of a proper Neapolitan pie. Read More
Spacecat Brewing Company: Now Pouring in Norwalk Features Interview Craft Beer beer South Norwalk Norwalk Homepage Openings Andrew Dominick February 23, 2022 With Spacecat Brewing Company opening its taproom, South Norwalk finally has a brewery…Again.Not counting the two short-lived macrobreweries Guvnor’s and Iron which were located in the same space on Washington Street, the city hasn’t had a larger, buzzed about brewery since New England Brewing debuted on Commerce Street 1989 with then head brewer Phil Markowski, and they eventually moved to Marshall Street with another head brewer, Rob Leonard at the helm.NEBCO left SoNo in 2001 for Woodbridge and Norwalk has been without a watering hole like it ever since.A little less than 20 years later, James Bloom—no relation to the famous Bloom Family oyster operation—had an idea to open a brewery along with his friend and co-worker Jeff Dunn. Read More
