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Al Calderone Club Now Open in Shorewood
Named after his late father, proprietor Carmelo Fazzari and his family have opened their gourmet pizza restaurant Al Calderone Club on North Oakland Avenue.
Proprietor Carmelo Fazzari and his family have opened the doors to their new North Oakland Avenue gourmet pizza restaurant Al Calderone Club in Shorewood.
Al Calderone, named after Fazzari's father who passed away in September, sells pizza by the slice, offers delivery and has a counter that seats a half-dozen or so at 4475 N. Oakland Ave.
Fazzari said after his father beat a bout with bone marrow cancer, he was working out of the Fox Point restaurant and became bored. Fazzari proposed his father start looking for a new storefront, and he picked Shorewood.
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"He just fell in love with Shorewood," Fazzari said of his father, who made him promise to open the Shorewood location before passing.
With restaurants in Fox Point and Milwaukee and a long history in the city, Farazzi said Al Calderone is known for its thin crust pizzas. It will also offer New York and Calabrese-style pizzas, with original pizza recipes at the Shorewood location.
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Fazzari, his brother Gino and a friend from New York spent the last six months trying to craft the perfect New York-style pizza, he said.
There’s also the New York-style “Arthur Ave,” which is named after a street in Brooklyn famous for its pizza shops and the Calabrese-style “Maria Rosa,” with olive oil, tomatoes, basil and parmesan cheese.
"Our pizzas are known throughout Milwaukee, but we wanted to do something different," he said.
It will also offer gluten-free crust pizza, sandwiches, appetizers, salads and a Sprecher soda fountain.
Fazzari said his family, which has been in the restaurant business for more than five decades, has plans to open other takeout locations in Milwaukee.
The original Al Calderone Club on the east side of Milwaukee opened in the 1960s at N. Bartlett Ave. and E. Bradford Ave.
Al Calderone Club opens daily at 11 a.m., and remains open until 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and it could stay open as late as 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
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