– PHILADELPHIA EATER – MAY 9, 2012 –
The name Santucci has held strong for decades in Philadelphia when pizza is discussed. Alongside Tacconelli’s, the Santucci’s established themselves as one of two royal families of pie that still stand at the top in 2012, while pretenders to the throne have come and gone for the past 30 years. Originally only a known quantity in the Northeast, the Santucci’s recent invasion of South Philly put them on the map with local critics and a new generation of pizza-obsessed denizens below South Street. Eater chatted up Frank Santucci, Sr., the patriarch of the clan and the pizza-maker at the newest storefront.