New Canaan’s original pizzeria
Family owned and operated since 1967, the Colella family has been making homemade pizzas, pastas, grinders, salads and entrees for hungry New Canaanites.
Choose your favorite style
The dough and the sauce are made in house every day. Gluten-free and keto crusts are on the menu too.
See every pie on the menu
New York round
Hand-stretched, with a puffy, blistered edge. By the pie or by the slice.
Grandma
Our best seller. Thin square crust, fresh mozzarella, basil, garlic and tomato sauce.
Detroit style
Baked in blue steel pans for a thick, airy square with a crispy cheese crown.
Spicy hot oil bar pie
Cracker-thin, cheese to the edge, with our house serrano and habanero hot oil.
Where Joe’s began
In 1967, Joe and Annunziata “Nunzia” Colella, immigrants from Naples, opened the first pizzeria in New Canaan. They made the dough, the sauce, the lasagna and the eggplant parm from scratch. The meatballs we roll every day still follow the recipe Nunzia brought with her from Italy.
- 1967 Joe’s opens on East Avenue.
- 1973 A move to Forest Street, around the back of where we are now.
- 1995 Home at 23 Locust Avenue.
- Today Joe’s son, Lorenzo “Larry” Colella, owns and runs Joe’s.
Super Bowls, Halloween nights and blizzards
Joe’s has fed New Canaan through all of them, including pots of homemade beef stew for first responders during a blizzard.
For your party, office or team, we make full trays of pasta, salads, appetizers and entrees, plus sheet-pan pies cut for a crowd.
Best pizza in town
