Natasha Phillips to open up Romo’s Pizza at the Prado in Macon
Natasha Phillips designs to open her new restaurant, Romo’s Pizza, following to her recent eatery, Fountain of Juice, in the Prado procuring heart in Macon, in the next week of February.
Courtesy Romo’s Pizza
Natasha Phillips plans to open a new cafe in Macon supplying Neapolitan pizza cooked in a wood-burning oven.
“We’ll have some vintage Italian-style pizzas, a several appetizers and a couple of pastas,” explained Phillips, who owns Fountain of Juice, a smoothie and sandwich shop in the Prado searching centre on Forsyth Highway.
Her new cafe, Romo’s Pizza, is situated following doorway in the previous Barberitos and is named right after her youngest son, Roman, who turns 12 on Feb. 4. His nickname is Romo.
Phillips experienced hoped to open up in time for his birthday but she’s now capturing for the second 7 days in February.
The new restaurant options a Forno Bravo wood-burning oven, an Italian model produced in California, she stated.
“It’s a enormous oven,” Phillips mentioned. “It receives up to 800 degrees and can cook dinner like 5 pizzas at once in about 4 minutes flat.”
Cooking with a wood-burning oven gives the pizza far more flavor, she mentioned.
“We’ll do some classic Italian like the margherita and then we’ll have like the excellent arugula-prosciutto topper pizza,” Phillips mentioned. “We’ll have Italian sausage and like a white pizza and mushroom pizza.
“We’re seeking to adhere to traditional Italian model.”
The cafe is about 2,600 square ft and is developed to “look aged faculty basic,” Phillips mentioned.
“It’s dim, dim like an outdated Shakey’s and Godfather’s — if you’re previous sufficient to don’t forget that — and then we have lots of pictures of just the city of in which my mother is from, Sulmona.”
Natalia del Basso Orsini, her mom, is a native of Italy and established Natalia’s cafe in Macon in 1984 — providing the properly-acknowledged Italian restaurant a few years back. Sulmona is situated in the Abruzzo location of central Italy
“All pics and picture wallpapers in Romo’s are by Daniel Underwood, my mom’s husband,” Phillips mentioned.
The new cafe has a compact place intended for children with a pinball machine and a Galaga arcade recreation.
Phillips plans to continue to keep the foodstuff reasonably priced. She’ll offer only a one-sized pizza, a massive, with a rate array of $16 to $19 a pizza. Salads and appetizers will assortment from $6 to $8.
Functioning hrs will be from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.
“It’s an open up-thought kitchen area so you can see the pizza oven, which is type of interesting,” Phillips mentioned.
