{"id":194681,"date":"2025-09-02T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194681\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:38:09","slug":"the-best-tomato-pies-in-the-philadelphia-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/194681\/","title":{"rendered":"The best tomato pies in the Philadelphia region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"inq-p text-primary font-inquirer-text-web font-medium sm:text-4.5 sm:leading-[30px] md:leading-8 md:text-5 mb-0 line-clamp-3\">The tomato pie from Iannelli\u2019s is a piece of South Philly history, still pulled from a 21-foot-deep brick oven built 115 years ago by Vincent Iannelli\u2019s great uncle Robert. The recipe for its \u201cDepression-era\u201d sauce is nearly just as old, brought by Vincent\u2019s grandma Mirna when she came from Italy in the 1940s. It\u2019s a classic South Philly red gravy, but with less of the sweetness common in other variations, balanced with garlic, oregano, and Pecorino Romano. Vincent\u2019s grandparents initially sold the sauce baked onto sliced-open Italian loaves, but the now-familiar rectangles baked in cast-iron pans quickly became the draw to this East Passyunk bakery, along with stromboli and seeded loaves. \u201cShe cursed a lot in her hard Italian accent but still always made people feel special,\u201d Vincent says of Mirna.\u00a0<br \/>\nIannelli\u2019s tomato pies remain one of the archetypes of the genre, but have become a special-event splurge. Vincent, who also does real estate, transitioned the bakery over a decade ago into a limited seasonal operation, open to the public just 15 to 20 days a year, mostly weekends between October and December. Keep an eye on its social media accounts, or try sending them a message for availability.<br \/>\nIannelli\u2019s also does mail-order year-round through <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goldbelly.com\/restaurants\/iannellis-bakery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goldbelly<\/a>; the current price on that platform ($99 for six flash-frozen servings) is exorbitant \u2014 but $50 for a full pie fresh from the bakery, filling two 16-inch pizza boxes, is absolutely worth it. While you\u2019re there, grab a jar of the bakery\u2019s excellent crab gravy to complete the ultimate old-school Italian South Philly feast. \u2014 Craig LaBan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tomato pie from Iannelli\u2019s is a piece of South Philly history, still pulled from a 21-foot-deep brick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,108483,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-194681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-best-tomato-pie-philadelphia","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115135925737117767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}