Augusta Street Pizza

Augusta Street Pizza is a pizza restaurant in Greenville, SC. It serves Roman-style pizza, known for its airy interior and crisp bite, sold by the slice and by the pie, alongside housemade pasta, classic subs made with the shop's signature dough, salads, and rotating flavors of gelato. The menu includes pepperoni pizza, chicken parmesan subs, penne with vodka sauce, and caprese salad, all prepared fresh to order. The restaurant is the work of three owners who grew up in Italian households in New York, cooking and sharing food from scratch, and that same approach shapes the kitchen today.

Roman-style pizza here is baked in large rectangular pans from a higher-hydration dough that comes out crispy on the outside and soft inside. The menu lists pizzas topped with cup and char pepperoni, sweet sausage, homemade meatballs of beef, veal, and pork, broccoli rabe, and imported Pecorino Romano, along with a vodka sauce pie and a version finished with hot Calabrian salami, spicy cherry peppers, and a drizzle of hot Calabrian chili honey. There is also a 16-inch thin crust round Chicago style tavern pie. Beyond pizza, the kitchen turns out garlic knots, baked breaded eggplant, chicken cutlet and meatball subs, and pasta in penne, rigatoni, bowtie, fusilli, or spaghetti, with gluten-free spaghetti available. Homemade sauces are sold for customers to take home.

The owners are Nick Castronuovo, Carmelo "Carmine" Curra, and Peter Lombardo, who are in the restaurant daily cooking and greeting customers. Carmine is first-generation American, with a mother born outside Naples and a father born in Calabria; Nick is second-generation, with grandparents from Naples and Calabria. Seating is first-come, first-served, and there is free parking at Augusta Commons.

The restaurant sits on Augusta Street, a short walk from the Greenville City Fire Department and about a quarter mile from Augusta Circle Elementary School and Augusta Circle Park.

Roman-style pizza sets Augusta Street Pizza apart among Greenville's pizzerias, and the recipes behind it came from Italian family kitchens in New York.