The Stubborn Brother Pizza Bar

We were two kids from different parts of the country when we met in college—John, a Toledo boy, and Gabrielle, from a small town in New Jersey. Seven years later, we were married. Over the next 25 years, as we traveled to support our four children’s sports and visited Gabrielle’s family, we not only fell in love with each other—we fell in love with East Coast pizza. We started this business because we’re stubborn about making pizza the “old world” way, an honest return to the authentic essence of flour, cheese, and tomatoes. It’s the kind of food that has roots. Roots that reach all the way back to Italy, where the freshest local ingredients were used with care and intention. We’ve recreated that here by developing our own Stubbor...