Ten years after closing the doors of its original location, O4W Pizza has now also closed in Duluth. The New Jersey-style pizzeria opened at 3117 Main Street in Duluth in July 2016, and quietly closed in recent days, according to locals in the area.
The restaurant got its name from its first location which was inside the Irwin Street Market (660 Irwin Street) in Atlanta's Old 4th Ward neighborhood. Owner Anthony Spina debuted the eatery in January 2015 and closed in June 2016 about a month before opening in Duluth. Spina and O4W Pizza were most well known for their "Grandma Pie."
Spina returned to intown Atlanta with Nina+Rafi's, a Detroit-style pizza restaurant he opened along the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail with business partner Billy Streck in 2018. Spina was "forced out of the creative process in the kitchen" at Nina+Rafi in late 2020 although he still maintained a minority stake in the business. Nina+Rafi closed in April 2025 and its space is today occupied by an outpost of Eclipse di Luna.
Spina seems to have for a time operated a satellite location of O4W Pizza in a small food hall in Miami Beach, but online records suggest that it was not open long.
Were you a fan of O4W Pizza? Who in metro Atlanta do you think makes the best pizza? What would you like to see open in place of O4W Pizza in Duluth?
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2 comments:
This was the best New Jersey-style pizza I've ever had in ATL. Spina worked in multiple pizza joints and old-timey Italian restaurants at the Jersey Shore that I know from personal experience, and he was able to duplicate their food at a higher, artisan level of quality. This is a sad loss.
Well, shoot! This pizza brought back immediate memories of the lighter than air, thick chewy crusted Sicilian pies I recall as a kid on Long Island.
Probably one of the best in Atlanta!
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