The Best New York Pizza

The-Best-New-York-Pizza Zach Rutledge: Hey there gang! Your host Zach Rutledge for another episode of Doing Indy. We’re going to bring you on this episode a taste of the best that Indy has to offer. Now when I say taste, I do mean food. When I say food I do mean pizza. But any way we got to get going, we got to get ease of Indianapolis and get to our first place Jockamo’s. Mick McGrath: Jockamo opened in October of 2007, my wife and I have lived in Irvington for about 18 years now. We decided we want to open a restaurant. I had a lot of restaurant experience and we really want to do it here in Irvington which is one of the first to establish suburbs and neighborhoods in Indianapolis, so it was established in 1870. We make our dough fresh everyday, we make our sauce everyday, we make our salad dressings everyday, we try to do as much in house as possible because with pizza, fresh makes the difference. We do everything that‘s fresh as possible and we’ve been very successful here. Zach Rutledge: Well, we’ve got to try Jockamo’s signature pizza here the Slaughterhouse Five just tons and tons of meat on here. I absolutely cannot wait. Let’s see how it is. Mick McGrath: The name Jockamo of a crust pizza comes from — we grew up across and they’re just kind of distinguished ourselves or differentiate ourselves from a round of a meal pizza. Just to let people know this is not your average pie. I lived in Chicago for a while, they take a lot of pride in their pizza there. In Indianapolis now there’s almost a certain kind of Indianapolis style pizza which is a thinner crust with a lot of different toppings on it and we’re kind of in that move and we just wanted with the name to let people know. This is a sit down restaurant where you come in, sit down, order your pizza. It’s made fresh right then nothing is pre-packaged or anything and that’s what we hope the name conveys. Zach Rutledge: So we made our way out of Irvington ahead of back down town. We’re right off the circle. I wanted Indianapolis as cool as little pizza places, Giorgio’s. Damiano Perillo: Giorgio’s is originally from Italy. It’s from Naples and even then made generation of the old immigrant and America back in the 60’s and 70’s his father and grandfather, they all went to New York. When he moved to Indiana in ’85, he was so fresh ready he didn’t find no pastry, he didn’t find no good pasta, he didn’t find no good pizza. So he is like a well — if I going to choose to live in Indiana I have to do better than this. I have to bring you something from old country to Indiana. So he was one to creating something different to nobody has in Indiana. He had a vision just like New York. When you work in New York you see tile, you see marble, you see like tradition in New York style pizzeria and that’s he created. We got people come all over the place. We got a lot of people that have been downtown of building working for years and years and years. You got like every tournament with the pacers or the colts games or even like a college basketball. People come from Wisconsin, in Kentucky, Detroit, Alabama, and the agriculture reunion in the college of kids and the students they do, where do they come? To Giorgio’s because they’ve been here once and the first things they do to want to come back —with the bus, lined out the door. We get the people everyday walk in here, they’ve never been here before. And Giorgio was like, “What’s the matter with you, where have you been all these years. I’ve been here for 20 years,” it’s like what? You know you love it when people from New York it comes to you and say, “This is the best pizza I have because they want the good food, the — fear and the best in New York pizza.” Zach Rutledge: All right we would love to bring you more of the best pizza places in Indy, but unfortunately we’re out of time and I’m telling right you now, my stomach is loving the fact throughout the time. So for Doing Indy, I’m your host Zach Rutledge. We’ll see you next time.