Honestly, if you win the Honest Challenge at Onesto Pizza & Trattoria, you’ll have to let us know. It’s National Pizza Month and all things pie are on the menu at this South City restaurant. That challenge? If you can down an entire 18-inch Gut Buster pizza in half an hour, you’ll win 100 bucks. But if you want to eat a sensible amount of Onesto’s rustic pizza at a leisurely pace, you’re in luck. It’s offering all of its original pizzas in pizzette style, which really just means that it’s a smaller, appetizer-size portion. Onesto’s also serving traditional Neapolitan-style pizzas, including quattro stagioni (four seasons) and pizza al prosciutto. During pizza month, a little pizza history is also on the menu as well so you can fill up your brain and your belly.
Photo of Onesto chef and owner Vito Racanelli Jr. (right) by Jonathan S. Pollack
This article appears in Oct 1-31, 2009.