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Pizzeria Bruno brings authentic Italian-style pizza to Sutton Barbara Houle Special to Worcester Magazine USA TODAY NETWORK
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Pizzeria Bruno in Sutton run by two brothers originally from Italy is a hidden gem for pizza. Davide and Marcello Bruno, both of Sutton, opened Pizzeria
Bruno on Galaxy Pass in August 2020, serving traditional Italian-style thin crust pizza cooked in a wood fi red pizza oven that was built in Italy. Ingredients are imported from the country, everything from meats to buff alo-milk mozzarella cheese produced in Italy’s Campania region. The mozzarella is ordered on Friday and arrives in Boston from Italy at the beginning of each week, said Marcello Bruno. The pizzeria’s menu features only Italian wines (red and white) and beer, in addition to assorted fl avors of imported Italian soft drinks (peach tea, lemon tea, lemonade, red orange) and sparkling water. The business orders from an Italian food distributor in Boston, said Bruno. OK, most everyone has a goto favorite pizza place, no matter the style of pizza and crusts. I don’t want to get into a social media war about who makes the area’s best pizza ever. I will say the Bruno brothers are proudly Italian and devoted to serving the highest quality style pizza and Italian specialties. In Italy, the men worked with family in a restaurant located close to Milan where they grew up. The restaurant seated 250 and had a “huge” menu, said Marcello Bruno. “We were in business more than 15 years before family members decided to sell and go separate ways,”
he said, explaining how the restaurant was known not only for food, but also large parties and live music until 4 in the morning. “It was a lot,” said Bruno, who later bought a small bar and bartended for nine years. Davide Bruno came to the United States before his brother and is an American citizen. “After visiting my brother, a couple times, I decided to take on a new life challenge,” said Marcello Bruno. “First I found a house in Sutton and then we looked for a business location. We thought maybe a sandwich place. But in our hearts, we knew we wanted to open a small size pizzeria where we could share the style of pizza we grew up eating and loved.” The pizzeria took almost a year to open as a result of COVID-19 complications, said Bruno, who with his brother (an engineer) did most of the inside work, assisted by a local carpenter. Hard work paid off , he said. “We’re happy to be part of this community and fi nd it’s much easier to work in the town where you live. We are minutes from the business.” Pizzeria Bruno, 27C Galaxy Pass, Sutton (building next to Market 32) is open from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 4 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday; 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday; See PIZZA, Page 24
