![]() I ordered a "slice" - actually a personal pizza - of the Wisconsin bacon burger pizza with ground beef, bacon and onions. Inside: new ceilings, new floors, new inspiration. ![]() I was never keen on Supreme Pizza, but walking home on a cold winter night I scoped out the prospect of a good pizza joint close to home, and what I found was prospect turned to promise. Cerniglia delivers while Frankie cooks and Kelly works the front. Lucky for us, we can go out to eat what he used to eat at home.Ĭerniglia and his wife, Kay, opened Madtown Pizza in July with co-owners Kelly and Frankie Grant in the space formerly occupied by Supreme Pizza. "You know, you always love your mother's cooking," Cerniglia says, adding that when people ask him where he goes out for pasta, he says he doesn't go out. The flavors conjure the modest grandeur of a well-cooked meal from mom, at affordable prices and in generous portions. His parents emigrated from Sicily but met in Madison.Ĭerniglia's Sicilian family recipes are the basis for the pizza, pasta, sandwiches and calzones at Madtown. "I grew up a block from Regent and Park Street," notes Madtown co-owner Joe Cerniglia, a member of the Italian Workmen's Club. The Greenbush, in its heyday a home base for a largely Italian immigrant community, was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Bayview, Braxton and Brittingham apartments. Madtown Pizza is a throwback to Madison's Greenbush neighborhood, even though it's on East Johnson Street.
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