Pizza Riot: Tucson’s Zio Peppe restaurant has an all-female crew tossing its pies | Business News

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The Umami Tsunami ($ 16) is one of the most unique specialty pizzas on Zio Peppe’s menu. The Italian-inspired restaurant, which opened in early May, has an all-female pizza-making crew called Pizza Riot.

Cathalena E. Burch, Arizona Daily Star

Moments after it opened for lunch on Friday, July 16, Zio Peppes Pizzaiola Koda – they have a name – faced a stack of pizza orders.

Koda is one of four women who bake pizzas for the Eastside restaurant that opened at 6502 E. Tanque Verde Road in early May.

Sanner said he wasn’t sure, but he has certainly never heard of a pizza place that is only occupied by women.

Koda said the crew goes by the name of Pizza Riot, a name that seems to fit when you watch Koda take a ball of dough out of a large container, flour it on both sides, and knead it before throwing it in the air.

There’s a sign that partially hides the pizza operation from the dining room, but that afternoon the dough could be seen blowing up from Koda’s hands. After one toss, she caught the dough and spread it out on a wooden counter, where all the toppings were kept in chilled bowls.

A bed of red sauce made from Stanislaus tomatoes with fresh mozzarella and large sweet basil leaves crowned her house favorite Margherita.

The second cake was the umami tsunami, which Koda topped with grated mozzarella cheese before adding soy-pickled shiitake mushrooms, fermented black garlic, slightly spicy goat’s horn peppers, shallot cream, and finely grated parmigiano.

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