It now has three sites in Merseyside
A loved Liverpool restaurant and takeaway originally inspired by a trip to New York is celebrating 25 years in business.
Owner Paul Canning, from Kensington, said his "love affair" with pizza began when he visited a popular pizzeria in the city. And after numerous trips to New York in the 90s, he was inspired to turn his passion for food into a business. "Then through the 90s I made quite a few trips to New York, just leisurely with nothing in mind other than doing all the tourist things. I'd been round quite a lot of the slice shops in Manhattan and on the last visit the penny kind of dropped and I thought ok maybe there's something here for me to take back home to Liverpool.
Transforming the derelict site, Paul said that area of town was quite different to how we know it to be today. Paul said: "Back then in 2000, the city centre was a lot different. The Metquarter wasn't there. "It was trying to convince people to change their eating habits, rather than getting your normal thing getting something on the go, a quick slice. That was difficult for the first two-and-a-half years, it was really touch and go. A lot of long hours for myself, 14 or 16 hours days just keeping the place going but after that things really took of and we got the momentum going.
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