This Delray pizza dough rests for 48 hours. Rossano's Pizza Lab, in a strip mall on N Congress Ave, gives every dough ball two full days before it goes anywhere near the oven, and the result is a Neapolitan pie The Infatuation described as "at once crisp and delicate."

The shop calls what it makes "Florida Pizza." The recipe is Italian "00" flour, two days of rest, and a fire-burning oven that started its life on a trailer.

What You're Getting Into

Two Italian owners who import their ingredients from Italy, a counter, and exactly one bench. The food truck where the whole operation started is still parked out front, which tells you the priorities here were never about the room.

Start with the Signature Margherita: San Marzano tomato, fior di latte, basil cream and fresh basil on that 48-hour crust. The Pepperoni comes with hot honey, and the two white pies, Truffle Ham and Cheese and Sausage Cacio e Pepe, are the two to split if you came with a group. Roman-style slices cover a quick lunch, and the Florence schiacciata sandwiches like the Crudo Kiss (prosciutto, arugula, steak tomatoes, fior di latte) come with chips and a drink. Prices sit in $$ territory.

The Insider Move

Treat it like takeout with a plan. Order ahead, eat it within ten minutes of the box opening, and walk dessert over to Duci Sicilian Gelato in the same plaza. With Downtown Delray Restaurant Month extended through October, make this the counter-spot detour on a week when the whole city is already eating out.

What People Are Saying

The Infatuation filed it under "Serious Takeout Operation" and called the pie "at once crisp and delicate." For a one-bench strip-mall counter in Delray, that is the review that matters.

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