The First Pizzeria

The world's first true pizzeria, "Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba", opened in 1830 and is still in business today at Via Port'Alba 18 in Naples.

Later, in 1895, an Italian immigrant named Gennaro Lombardi opened the first American Pizzeria in New York City, which remains to this day as Lombardi's Pizzeria Napoletana.   Pizza remained a food of immigrants until  after World War II, when non-Italian-American soldiers returned home and began making their own pizzas modeled after the delicious pizzas they had tasted in Italy during the war.  From this point onward, pizza has grown in popularity ever since, and has become one of America’s and now the world's favorite foods.