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    GoreMade Pizza Plans Opening of Italian Village Restaurant

    Ironically, Italian Village is decidedly lacking in Italian restaurants. Caterer and pizzaiolo Nick Gore is looking to change that for good by opening a brick and mortar version of his mobile pizza operation, GoreMade Pizza. The wood-fired pizza restaurant will be located on 936 North Fourth Street, next to Little Rock Bar. A tentative opening is slated for fall 2015, after Gore completes a busy mobile oven summer season.

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    Gore started working in the restaurant business in high school, doing stints at various pizza places and Alana’s Food and Wine. After experimenting with pizza recipes, he started hosting pizza Sundays at his house in 2007. The single-digit friends and family guest list grew to over 50, and Gore started getting requests to bring his practice-perfected pizzas to weddings, graduations, and other events. He acquired an Italian mobile wood-fired pizza oven in 2012, and GoreMade catering was born. He began seriously considering opening a restaurant soon after.

    Gore began searching for a perfect space in December 2014, eventually landing on a Craigslist ad seeking an Italian restaurant in Italian Village. He replied to the ad, whose poster ended up being a childhood friend he’d lost touch with. His friend had bought the place last year, and was in the midst of re-zoning from a retail establishment to a food space. The store, previously a TV repair shop, has 1,236 square feet where Gore hopes to seat 30. The restaurant will be a sit-down establishment, mirroring his pizza Sundays as a community gathering place. They plan on eventually securing a liquor license. If GoreMade succeeds, they plan to turn the sizable backyard into a patio by next spring, doubling their seating.

    “There’s no Italian food scene in Italian Village other than the Market, which is more of an actual market,” he said. “We’re trying to pull off that cornerstone quintessential Italian place.”

    GoreMade has been a presence at farmer’s markets for three years now, selling at the Clintonville Farmer’s Market for two years before switching to the New Albany Farmer’s Market. GoreMade’s pizza dough is handmade, and Gore keeps his topping local and organic, usually sourcing from the same farmer’s markets he sells from. His menu changes daily to accommodate what’s fresh and seasonal.

    “I’m more excited about what’s available and what people don’t know,” said Gore. “You know Redbud trees? They’re edible. A lot of people don’t know that, so putting Redbuds on a pizza is an introduction to the edibility of what’s in your backyard. I like to feed people things on pizza they’ve never had before. It’s a very educational experience.”

    For more information, visit www.goremadepizza.com.

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    Rebecca Wagner
    Rebecca Wagnerhttps://columbusunderground.com
    Rebecca Wagner is a former staff writer at Columbus Underground who reported on local food and restaurant news. She's a graduate of Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.
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