“We know if it’s not the best, it’s one of the best in the country,” he said. Greg Karr, who lives in Rockland County, N.Y., was passing through the state to take his daughter on a college tour when he and his family decided to stop at the restaurant, having looked up the best Connecticut restaurants online. “We’ll support any restaurant that we can given the financial hardships (of the pandemic),” he said. Several other customers shared stories similar to Stone’s: they were shocked and saddened to hear of Bimonte’s death just one day before they were attracted to the restaurant from out of New Haven - often out of state - because of its reputation established by Bimonte and his family.ĭan Kloss, who lives in Arizona, said he was visiting his mother Gaile Woode in Madison when he screened the 1988 romantic comedy “Mystic Pizza” for her and his brother Ken when the idea to go to Pepe’s struck them. “We’ve heard that New Haven-style pizza is really good and we’re excited to try it.” It was while he was searching for information that he learned the news. “We’re new to Connecticut and we wanted to check out this restaurant,” he said. He said he has memories of Bimonte greeting customers on the sidewalk as they’d wait in the restaurant’s notoriously long lines.Ĭustomer Aaron Stone, who traveled to the restaurant with his family from Farmington, said he’d learned of the news by coincidence when it broke on Thursday. “The staff is always very supportive.”Īnthony Augliera, 88, said he had grown up eating at Pepe’s since 1940. “It’s automatic that we’d come here,” he said. ![]() ![]() Gorowsky said he has been eating at Pepe’s regularly since 1973 and he knows the family well.
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