Stretch Pizza

Like many New Yorkers, Chef Wylie Dufresne spent the better part of 2020 baking an inordinate amount of bread products at home. Now the former chef and owner of WD-50, Alder, and Du’s Doughnut is making New York-style pizzas at a weekly pop-up out of Breads Bakery near Union Square.

Stretch Pizza’s thin-crusted and modestly sauced pies mimic a true New York slice - inexplicably floppy middle, crispy-puffy crust, and all. They’re available in four different varieties, including a classic cheese pizza with salty mozzarella and homemade tomato sauce that are so merged, you’d think they moved into a studio apartment together in the 1970’s and never left. We’d also recommend trying the delicate Everything Bagel pizza with a thin layer of cream cheese and mozzarella, and a creamy-spicy romesco pie topped with grilled ramps. The only non-pizza item is a breakfast calzone, which shouldn’t be ignored. It’s stuffed with piping hot scrambled eggs, mildly gushing muenster and american cheese, and scallions.

You can pre-order your pizza online ahead of time here, exclusively for pickup at Bread’s Bakery by Union Square.