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Cavalli Pizza - Clara and Paolo Cavalli are both first-generation Italians who have a passion for pizza and good food. When they moved to Dallas, TX a couple of
years ago, they couldn’t find good pizza anywhere, so they opened Cavalli Pizza and started baking pies. Now Clara and Paolo’s restaurant is the only one in all of Texas
to bear VPN certification.
Next time you’re in the Dallas/Irving area, make sure to stop in for a Margherita pizza.
If you have a bit of a sweet tooth, or even if you don’t, try one of the dessert pizzas. The s’mores pizza and Nutella pizza are both crowd favorites.
Certified by the Verace Pizza Napoletana Association, this Irving pizzeria uses ingredients imported from Italy and cooks its pizza in a wood-fired oven. The menu includes specialty pizza, create-your-own pizza, antipasti, salads, wood-fired sandwiches and dessert pizzas (the majority of which include Nutella).
The restaurant is BYOB.
Issue Date: D Magazine AUG 2008
Best of Big D
by the Editors of D Magazine
Best Pizza by the Book
Cavalli Pizza
It seems a new “authentic” pizza restaurant opens every week in Dallas. But Cavalli, a mom-and-pop pizzeria in Irving, is the only one with bona fides: a certification by the Verace Pizza Napoletana Association (VPN), guaranteeing that the pizza adheres to the standard set in Naples, Italy. That means: San Marzano tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil, buffalo mozzarella, wood-fired oven, and a pizza that bakes in less than 90 seconds. Cavalli is the only pizzeria in Texas with the VPN cred. |
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Posted on Fri, May. 16, 2008
Outside the pizza box
Cavalli's peppers the unusual amid traditional fare with certifiably yummy results
By TERESA GUBBINS
Special to the Star-Telegram
The local pizza scene keeps getting better, with new places upping the ante nearly every month. Gourmet toppings, delicate thin crusts, and even wood-burning ovens have all become common in the area, helping diners to leave behind their old diet of generic chain pizza.
Cavalli Pizza introduces the latest benchmark: This mom-and-pop spot on the northern outskirts of Irving has an accreditation from the American branch of the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, an organization founded in Italy in the 1990s by a group of Neapolitan pizza makers who wanted to standardize the process.
Owners Paul and Clara Cavalli, who moved here from Connecticut to open this restaurant, underwent training in California to gain the "VPN" stamp of approval. They say they're the only pizza place in Texas, and part of a limited group of U.S. pizzerias, with that distinction.
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