New Haven Pizza Place

Wow!
After reading an article in the New Yorker about New Haven "apizza", we decided to make a detour and stop here. Their classic pizza or apizza has the most phenomenal tomato sauce with garlic and surprisingly no cheese! We were skeptical, because afterall what is a pizza without cheese, it was amazing and delicious.
Good food plus the very friendly owner and staff made this a 5 star delight.

Fantastic dinners and service! Their dinners come with a fabulous salad and garlic bread at very reasonable prices. I have had veal Marsala and chicken Marsala both superior! My family loves their lasagna and chicken parmigiana dinners! I highly recommend this place

I recently visited New Haven Pizza Place with a friend who is a New Haven pizza fan and fellow Food Blogger. We had attended a pizza making class this year and one of the people there had recommended NHPP for pizza in the Milford area. We ordered a large Mozzarella with red sauce, and a small Specialty pizza with eggplant, meatballs and chicken cutlet pieces, which was too original to pass up. We ate there at one of several tables. The atmosphere was fine, but not really a draw. One of the old Patriots' Super Bowl games was on the television. Service was very friendly.

When I think about New Haven style pizza, my mind goes to the crust. I thought NHPP nailed the crust. Thin. Good mix of crisp and chewy. Good char. A legit NH crust. The other parts of the pizza were fairly good. For the Mozzarella, neither the cheese nor the sauce popped for me, but they were both decent. The meat components of the Special Pizza were pretty good, but they didn't seem to compliment each other. If I returned I might try something like a pepperoni and peppers, because the crust was so good, it's really just a matter of finding your order at NHPP. The chocolate cannoli were very good by the way.

3.5 Stars

New Haven Pizza Place is a New Haven-style pizzeria that opened in Milford, Connecticut in November 2017. It was founded by pizzaiolo Frank Bernardo and his wife Joanna. The Bernardo Family plays a large role in Greater New Haven's rich pizza history. Family patriarch Luigi "Gigi" Bernardo immigrated to New Haven from Naples, Italy in the 1960s. In 1974, Gigi opened his own business "Gigi's Bakery" on Chapel Street where he made baked goods and pizza. The family moved the business to Grand Avenue in 1982 and they continued to operate it until Gigi's retirement in 2001. He passed away in 2009. Gigi passed down his culinary talents to his seven children (including sons Frank, Arsenio and Luigi Jr who all became pizzaioli). In 2013, Frank modified a 1946 International Harvester fire truck into a mobile wood-fired pizza truck and thus the New Haven Pizza Truck was born! The truck became very popular with customers as it traveled around Southern Connecticut visiting wineries, breweries and festivals. Eventually Frank and Joanna decided to bring their delicious wood-fired pizza to a brick and mortar location in Milford. In late 2021, Frank decided to take a step back to focus exclusively on the pizza truck. Since that time, the pizzeria has been operated by his brother Arsenio and his niece Amanda. When the unit next door became available, Amanda and Arsenio decided to expand the pizzeria with a new bar and dining room that opened in February 2023.

Last week my family and I visited New Haven Pizza Place for dinner. We had previously sampled their pizza from the truck, but this was our first visit in the brick and mortar location. My wife's uncle (who lives nearby) joined us and we were all seated in their beautiful new bar and dining room. For cocktails, I had "The Sinatra" (Tanqueray gin, Campari, sweet vermouth, orange bitters, fresh orange wedge) and my wife had the "Amanda's Sangria" (red wine, seasonal fruit, limoncello, club soda). These were classic Italian-style cocktails and very flavorful. For an appetizer, our waitress recommended Bruschetta for the table to share. The presentation was very nice and the flavors were so good! For pizza, we ordered a "Classic Mozzarella" Pie (with half pepperoni) and the "Mashed Potato Special" (mashed potato, bacon, caramelized onions, mozzarella). The ingredients were great and the crust was so thin and perfect. We washed everything down with some Foxon Park White Birch Beer. There were no leftovers by the end of the evening. We were so full; no room for dessert. I must tip my hat to the owners and the staff. We all had a memorable experience at the New Haven Pizza Place and we look forward to returning!

I have been to this pizza place many times and every time is great. The place has a nice cozy feel to it and I recommend getting a seat in the bar section of the Restaurant. The food is amazing and the waiters were always nice. 5 Stars.

In my opinion this is the best pizza place in Milford. The honey feta artichoke pizza is delicious, I could eat the whole pie myself. The last time I ordered it did seem like perhaps a different chef but the food was still good. Closest thing to New Haven style pizza outside new haven here in Milford.

I went to New Haven pizza place yesterday.
The pizza is amazing. The dough is crunchy, the mozzarella cheese is neutral tasting and the pizza sauce is great. The wood fired oven they use was very impressive.

Nice place good service we really like the food/ pizza here ! I am a pizza snob ! I used to work in a pizza restaurant as a kid!
This place for me ? Is spot on you can tell the owners care.
Don't use the outside as a measure of what's inside,

Great service. Wings (although breaded - and filling) were very tasty. Pepperoni pizza was fantastic. Sausage and pepper was okay. Set up and decor were well appointed. Bathroom is clean and well maintained. Definitely worth a visit or two or three!

The people were so nice but the problem I have is when I got home and the pizza is burnt. Very disappointed considering the price I paid for two pizzas and two sodas.

Update:
When I called about the burnt pizza they gave two options which I went with one but then changed my mind but as I was trying to figure it out the lady just seemed annoyed and had to point out that there were other people waiting on the phone and how there was some people in front of her waiting. Which I get but, no need to tell me that it's not my problem. My dad goes to pick the pizza up and it's still a little burnt and the workers there had attitudes and saying they wanted the pizza we had back. Mind you no one on the phone said anything about bringing the pizza back!!! Why would we lie about it being burnt. Basically don't come here ever unless you want burnt pizza and workers with attitude problems! If I could give this zero stars I would