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Anna’s Vesuviano Makes a Multicultural Statement through Wood-Fired Pizza

Pizza is way more than just pizza to Anthony Giordano, owner of Anna’s Vesuviano mobile pizza trailer. It’s an edible symbol of cultures colliding to create something incredibly delicious. And even though his family comes from Naples, Italy, he says we shouldn’t just credit the Italians for inventing pizza.

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In the Name of Anna: A Brooklyn Italian Pizzeria in Providence

At Anna’s Vesuviano, a Neapolitan pizzeria and Italian restaurant in Providence, Chef Anthony Giordano shares his family’s Brooklyn roots through authentic, wood-fired pizza and classic Italian dishes. Named for his grandmother, nonna Anna, the restaurant honors her legacy with handmade recipes and traditional Italian cooking.

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New and coming soon: 13 R.I. restaurants and bars to try this fall - The Boston Globe

At Anna’s, Anthony Giordano is serving the wood-grilled pizza that first became popular when he was cooking out of his Anna’s Vesuviano food truck, traveling around the state. Expect a variety of pizzas with all sorts of toppings at this newly opened brick-and-mortar location, as well as sides of massive meatballs, sourdough bread, olive oil cake slices, and other specials.

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Food Bites: PVD September - Wood-fired pizza heats up Doyle Avenue, icy frills on Ives Street, and a celeb-owned taqueria on Dorrance

Pizza was not a choice for me,” declares Anthony Giordano, the pizza chef and owner of beloved parked pizza truck and now brick-and-mortar, Anna’s. The much-anticipated wood-fired pizzeria which recently opened on the East Side, was an idea that needed time and space to rise. Giordano traces his love of the dish to his pizza-obsessed father Frank, and the business is a tribute to his grandmother Nanianella “Anna” Russo, a force back in early 20th-century South Brooklyn. With the signage up

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My favorite pizza is coming to PVD - Once on wheels, Anna’s has officially made their new home in Providence, and the doors open this weekend.

Chef Anthony is obsessed with pizza. You can tell as soon as you taste it, that he’s not only mastered the dough, not only has he selected the finest ingredients, not only has he cooked it in his wood oven to the perfect crisp, but he is making pies that you’ve never seen or tried before. Anna’s is about to bring a new pizza to Providence.

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Wood-Fired Obsession: Chef Anthony Giordano brings his lifelong history with pizza to Rhode Island.

Growing up in Poughkeepsie, New York, pizza surrounded Giordano from a young age. “Every Friday my dad used to make pizza,” he recalls. “I remember sitting there watching him—he was always making square pizzas on a sheet tray. He would pretend not to see me, and when he’d bend down to put the pizza in the oven, I’d steal some raw dough and eat it.”

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In the Kitchen: Cheese Wood-Fired Pizza

In the kitchen today, we welcome Chef and Owner of Anna’s Vesuviano mobile pizza truck, Anthony Giordano, making a cheese wood-fired pizza. Pizza has always been Anthony’s passion and he named his food truck business after his grandmother Anna.

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3 secret pizza spots around Rhode Island that you'll thank yourself for trying

Lucky for us chef Anthoy Giordano moved from New York City to Providence at the start of the COVID pandemic. His wife, Sophia Blum, grew up in Providence and her parents still live on the East Side, hence the move.

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reshly baked Neapolitan pizza with melted mozzarella and tomato sauce at

Wood-fired Neapolitan pizza baking inside the traditional oven at Anna’s Vesuviano in Providence, Rhode Island"

Chef sliding a Neapolitan pizza into the wood-fired oven at Anna’s Vesuviano in Providence, Rhode Island"

Chef preparing Neapolitan-style pizza with tomato sauce and mozzarella before baking at Anna’s Vesuviano in Providence, Rhode Island"

Wood-fired oven with flames and a Neapolitan pizza baking inside at Anna’s Vesuviano in Providence, Rhode Island"