{"id":244549,"date":"2011-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/authentic-east-coast-eats-in-north-park-at-jersey-joes\/"},"modified":"2011-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T07:00:00","slug":"authentic-east-coast-eats-in-north-park-at-jersey-joes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/authentic-east-coast-eats-in-north-park-at-jersey-joes\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentic East Coast Eats, in North Park at Jersey Joe\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eddie Pallaro and Krista Haux roll some dough for the days pies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Lauren Ciallella |<\/strong> Reportero SDUN<\/p>\n

At Jersey Joe\u2019s Pizza in North Park, specialty pies glisten on glass shelves like an edible Tiffany\u2019s display. They showcase pizzas like the \u201cBobo,\u201d breaded eggplant, spinach and sun-dried tomato, buffalo chicken and the square-crusted, Grandma style with mozzarella on the bottom and crushed tomato on top.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to give something to the people. San Diego is a growing city and they need something to \u2018eat and go\u2019 that\u2019s good, quality stuff. Give people some choice, not just pepperoni,\u201d said owner Joe Scire-Cirneco.<\/p>\n

Scire-Cirneco\u2019s inspiration came while recuperating in San Diego after he returned from Operation Iraq Freedom a few years ago. \u201cWhile I was recovering I enjoyed the weather, but I didn\u2019t have any good pizza.\u201d Originally from Edison, New Jersey, Scire-Cirneco was no stranger to the pizza business since he, his brother and brother-in-law had opened eight restaurants back east, with three still in operation.<\/p>\n

Now paired with partners, Steve \u201cBobo\u201d Baughman and Barry Nonenkemp, he recruited Long Island native and pizza maker, Eddie Pallaro, who has been slinging pie for 21 years. Scire-Cirneco noted, \u201cThe economy\u2019s really bad right now, but if you have the experience and time to do it, it can work\u2026Together we have over 40 years of experience,\u201d he said pointing to himself and Pallaro, \u201cAnd we stick to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

From pizza ovens to butcher blocks, Scire-Cirneco wanted it authentic east coast, including the glass shelves specially built to display the pizza at eye-level instead of using the standard, bakery cases seen in several San Diego pizza shops.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a typical pizzeria like we have on the east coast, in Jersey or New York. We\u2019re not a restaurant, just a typical pizzeria with a lot of options,\u201d said Scire-Cirneco. Their range of cold subs, hot sandwiches, chicken, veal and seafood dishes, baked pastas and even the occasional zeppole thrown in the fryer, show they aren\u2019t playing around when it came to east coast recipes.<\/p>\n

The pride with which Scire-Cirneco spoke about his food was palpable. Antipasti salad had quickly become a best seller with freshly sliced capicola, ham, salami and provolone, pickled veggies, olives, onions, tomatoes and fresh mozzarella that Scire-Cirneco coddled like a newborn before placing it on top and baptizing everything in oil and vinegar.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is made from scratch. The pizza sauce, the marinara sauce, they\u2019re all different sauces. We don\u2019t just open a can. We use the best ingredients\u2026A lot of people here never heard of half this stuff. Like broccoli rabe, they\u2019ve never tasted it before\u2026I don\u2019t even want to offer things like pineapple on pizza. That\u2019s California. I want to show them east coast.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lauren Ciallella | SDUN Reporter At Jersey Joe\u2019s Pizza in North Park, specialty pies glisten on glass shelves like an edible Tiffany\u2019s display. They showcase pizzas like the \u201cBobo,\u201d breaded eggplant, spinach and sun-dried tomato, buffalo chicken and the square-crusted, Grandma style with mozzarella on the bottom and crushed tomato on top. \u201cI wanted […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":244548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Authentic East Coast Eats, in North Park at Jersey Joe\u2019s","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11593,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-no-images","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}