Jun 12, 2023
In 1990, Michael Brooks and Brad Otton landed in Italy as
natives of Colorado and Washington respectively, never having had
authentic Italian food let alone bonified pizza napoletana. After
falling in love with the life-changing culinary offerings of
Italian cuisine, they found it difficult to enjoy anything remotely
close to what they had in Italy back home.
After years of dreaming about their own Neapolitan pizzeria, Brad
finally opened their first location in Henderson with subsequent
locations in partnership with Michael in Salt Lake City, Summerlin,
Pasadena, and Oxnard to follow. Their story is one of overcoming
challengings not without a less-than-ideal pilot restaurant
location, staffing issues, and virtually zero restaurant experience
between the two of them.
As the late Jonathon Gold so perfectly said after dining at one of
their California locations, "The pizza at Settebello is closer to
real Naples pizza than any place that has ever existed in Los
Angeles”.
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