Old school pizza joint run by fine-dining vets opens on Long Beach’s Retro Row

With years of fine-dining restaurant experience between them, Long Beach residents Jonathan Strader and Jack Leahy were thinking of going in that same higher-end route as they planned their new restaurant earlier this year.
But when the pandemic hit and made the already tough restaurant business even tougher, they decided their best bet was to keep it simple and go with a concept that has been around for decades — a classic pizza joint.
“We wanted something that stands the test of ti