Massimo’s Italian offerings expand with pizza bar
The owners of the Bangor-based Massimo’s Breads and the now-closed Massimo’s Cucina Italiana have expanded their roster of Italian cuisine on Monday with the opening of Massimo’s Pizza Bar at 130 Hammond St. in the city’s downtown.
But the Ranni family isn’t cooking up your traditional large American pies drenched in tomato sauce and every conceivable topping and cheese. Instead Massimo’s Pizza Bar specializes in individually sized, lightly topped artisan pizza with a traditional Roman-style thin, extra crispy crust.
“In America, generally speaking, pizza is what you eat when you want to eat inexpensively and stuff yourself,” Massimo’s Pizza Bar co-owner Anne Marie Ranni told the Bangor Daily News. “You eat one of these, which we consider an individual pizza — you eat one of these, and you’re still so light, you’re not stuffed, you don’t feel heavy. So it’s good news, bad news. It’s bad news for people who want to eat cheaply and be stuffed. It’s good news for the rest of us.”
In addition to selling pies that run the gamut from the pizza con le patate, a pizza topped with thinly sliced potatoes, fontina cheese and truffle oil; to pizza alla puttanesca, a combination of kalamata olives, capers and anchovies, Massimo’s Pizza Bar will also be catering to fans of Massimo’s Cucina Italiana with signature pasta dishes.
“I always say you can never get too many carbs,” Ranni told the BDN.
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