Tucson’s newest Italian eatery Zio Peppe is open | Business News

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Zio Peppe bakes his pizzas in a gas and wood oven with a rotating stone stove.

Courtesy of Zio Peppe

Tucson’s newest Italian restaurant, Zio Peppe, is open

The restaurant – at 6502 E. Tanque Verde Road – opened on Monday, May 10th, initially for takeaway and delivery only. The opening of the dining room and terrace is planned in a couple of weeks, the owners said.

Zio Peppe is a joint venture between long-time Janos Wilder protégé Devon Sanner and Mat Cable, who owns Fresco Pizzeria and Pasteria on East Speedway.

The restaurant offers a distinctive Tucson twist on Italian-American cuisine – classic pizza and pasta with a Tucson twist. Pizzas get hot from a unique gas and wood oven that has a rotating stone stove.

Sanner likes to call what he and Cable do as focusing on Tucson’s culinary terroir by marrying local ingredients like mesquite flour and red durum wheat grown and ground in Marana using a traditional Neapolitan formula, for example Making pizza dough. Or make prickly pears and nopales the center of a cake that also highlights cholla buds pickled in pepperoncini salt.

Pastas are just as inventive and entirely Tucson, with ingredients like wolfberry, green chili powder, and local pima durum wheat. Even the familiar gets a homemade twist; Fettuccine Alfredo juxtaposes Sonoran Italian with green chilli pappardelle in Marinara Colorado.

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