Elizabeth Corrado Weizman

Bella Sorella, the mobil wood fired pizza oven business, was started by sisters Elizabeth, a school teacher and Gail, a chef, back in 2013. The idea for the business came from a wood fired pizza oven Elizabeth and her husband built at their farm 20 years ago. They had friends and family over most weekends and made pizza; everyone raved about it and wanted more. Gail had been a chef in the San Francisco area for over a dozen years, but wanted to move back closer to family. So the mobile pizza truck was created. They were in the very first group of food trucks that started in the Dayton region.

Over the past decade they continued to grow the business and they currently have three mobile units and function primarily as a catering company, specializing in weddings, corporate lunches featuring local food and fresh, home made ingredients.

Elizabeth told us they’d talked about opening a restaurant for so many years and looked at many locations, but having to move from their current kitchen made it a necessity. They “also want to grow Bella Sorella, be a staple in the community, bring jobs and a cozy family place for people to come and have a great pizza or a fantastic salad and side for lunch. It’s so difficult to find a home grown meal in this area (Northmont).

So they’ve just recently announced the purchase of property at 1405 Esther Price Way in Clayton, but right now it’s just a field on Rt 40. But they expect the building to go up fast with an anticipated opening in late summer.

They plan on continuing to operate all three trucks and building the restaurant to help make the trucks more functional. The site will also serve as a prep kitchen for the mobile pizza business as well as a sit down restaurant including outdoor seating. As they get close to opening the restaurant they may have to limit some of the truck events this year to get the restaurant up and going.

Want to keep up with their progress? Follow them on Instagram at Bella Sorella Pizza to see behind the scenes of the building process. They promise to be posting a lot the next several months. To book them to cater an event for you, go to this website for more information.