Albanian Powerhouses of Dallas Pizza Add Their Own Touch to Pizza Sauce
Albania, the small Balkan nation just across the Adriatic Sea from Italy, is a powerhouse on the Texas pizza scene. If you've gotten takeout around...
Albania, the small Balkan nation just across the Adriatic Sea from Italy, is a powerhouse on the Texas pizza scene. If you've gotten takeout around town, you've probably tasted the Albanian touch. One Fort Worth restaurant even offers Albanian Pizza, with artichokes, sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, and peppers. To find out why the influence of immigrants from one small country is so huge, we talked to Maggie and Tony Hajro, two of the original founders of Dallas' Albanian pizza empire. Tony opened his first pizza place in 1984, in Lewisville.