Pizza Studio Tamaki opens East Village May

Pizza Studio Tamaki, the Tokyo pizzeria led by Tsubasa Tamaki, opens its first U.S. restaurant on May 5 in Manhattan’s East Village. (ny.eater.com) The restaurant is at 123 St. Marks Place, and reservations are already live for the new East Village dining room. (ny.eater.com) (pizzapst.com) Eater New York reported the room has 65 seats and follows a pop-up run earlier this year in the same address. (ny.eater.com) (hallpr.com) Tamaki’s style is billed as “Tokyo-Neapolitan”: dough fermented for 30 hours, baked in a wood-burning oven, with a flour blend imported from Japan. (hallpr.com) (pizzapst.com) The menu is expected to include the Tamaki pie and a Bismarck topped with egg, alongside arancini and meatballs. (hallpr.com) The opening also formalizes a shift at the address. Moody Tongue Pizza opened there in December 2024, and Eater reported in February that Tamaki would take over the space for his first U.S. outpost. (ny.eater.com 1) (ny.eater.com 2) EV Grieve reported that Moody Tongue operators Jeremy Cohn and Jared Rouben remained the tenants and operating partners for the New York location. (evgrieve.com) The restaurant’s own site says it will open Tuesday through Thursday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. (pizzapst.com) New York has long exported pizza styles abroad. This opening runs the traffic the other way, bringing back a Tokyo interpretation of Neapolitan pizza to St. Marks Place. (ny.eater.com) (nytimes.com)