Pizzaiolo

About the Business

Specialties

At Pizzaiolo, we buy only locally grown, organic, seasonal meat and produce. We buy from small farmers and ranchers we know, love and trust, people we eat with, drink with, and share our lives with. Everyday we change the menu to reflect the offerings of these remarkable food purveyors in their freshest most beautiful form.

History

Established in 2004.

We at Pizzaiolo believe that the simple act of feeding people is at the core of what it is to be human. We focus on the ritual of taking life from the world around us and presenting it to you to sustain your own life.

Meet the Business Owner

Business owner information

Charlie H.

Business Owner

Charlie Hallowell was raised in suburban Connecticut on a modest diet of TV dinners and Chef Boyardee. After attending Northfield Mt. Hermon high school he left the country to seek his fortunes in the East. Upon return he met and fell in love with the mother of his two children in Berkeley California. Through some completely unexplainable, miraculous twist of fate he found himself working in the kitchen at Chez Panisse. For the first time in his life he felt completely engaged and enlivened by his job, and the intellectual life that permeated the culture at Chez Panisse. After eight years of working in the kitchen, a degree in English literature, and almost a decade in the Bay Area, Charlie felt it was time to try a project of his own.Pizzaiolo is Charlie's first attempt at embodying his love of food, local politics, and the nightly production of meal time narrative.