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What To Eat at Pizzeria da Nella Cucina Napoletana

Nella Grassano.
Nella Grassano. Photo: Sky Full of Bacon

In no small part Nella Grassano, the original, third-generation-Naples-pizzaiola at Spacca Napoli, kicked off the Neapolitan craze which has largely transformed the pizza scene here in Deep Dish City. But in recent years it’s been easier to seat a party of six at Great Lake on Friday night than to eat her pizza; after leaving Spacca Napoli, she resurfaced only briefly at Nella Pizzeria Napoletana before that partnership fell apart. Now, as she says with determination that seems aimed at herself as much as at us, “It’s ours, all ours.” It is Pizzeria da Nella Cucina Napoletana, more sensibly shortened to Da Nella, in part of the former Tsuki space at 1443 W. Fullerton, where Nella can be seen— for a long time, we hope— making her classic, airy-crust Neapolitan pizzas in front of the 900-degree oven built out of Italian volcanic ash and Vesuvio stone. (There’s more about it, and her, in this Chicagoist piece.) Da Nella is open now; the menu, of simple pizzas, salads and pastas, often with a seafood bent, is below.

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Pizzeria da Nella Cucina Napoletana, 1443 W. Fullerton, (773) 281-6600.

What To Eat at Pizzeria da Nella Cucina Napoletana