Anyone who's been around New Paltz long enough will know that famed Brooklyn pizzeria Grimaldi's opened up a far northern outpost on Main Street in the early 2000s. Now, almost a decade after the shop served its last slices, Adam Monteverde, the pizzaiolo who once helmed its impressive hand-built brick oven, has reimagined the space as Apizza!, a love letter to coal-oven pizza and the rustic, homey Italian dishes he grew up eating around his family's table. 'I cut my teeth on coal-oven pizza,' Monteverde says.

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