Marco Russo
Founder & Head PizzaioloThird-generation Neapolitan baker who brought his family's century-old dough technique to Minneapolis. Marco oversees every recipe and trains our entire kitchen team personally.
Our Origin
The Story Behind Our Round Table
"Great pizza starts with great people gathered around a great table."
Round Table Pizza was born in 2008 from a simple but powerful idea: that food is best when shared. Our founders, Marco and Elena Russo, emigrated from Naples with a single suitcase and a handwritten recipe book passed down through four generations of their family. They wanted to recreate those warm evenings around the family table — the kind where everyone talks too loudly, laughs too hard, and stays far too late.
Starting with a small wood-fired oven in a 400-square-foot space on West Broadway, they quickly earned a reputation for round table pizza crafted with imported San Marzano tomatoes, fresh-milled flour, and cheeses sourced from small-batch producers across Wisconsin and Italy. Word spread quickly through Minneapolis. Lines began forming before they even opened the doors.
Today, Round Table Pizza serves hundreds of families every week — but our commitment to the craft remains exactly as it was on day one. Every dough is hand-stretched. Every sauce is made fresh daily. Every pizza that leaves our kitchen is one we're proud to put our name on.
