[image-1]You can soon add Noce Gourmet Pizza to the list of pizza providers in Tremont. The popular Chardon-based restaurant has been going strong for almost a decade, but management feels the time is right to install an outpost in the big city. 

“We want to be downtown and the opportunity popped up, so we’re rolling the dice,” explains owner John Tomlinson, who along with son Jay run the operation. “We’ll see what happens. We think we have a good product. There’s not a lot of science behind it.”

Noce made news a couple years back when it claimed honors as “Northeast Ohio’s Best Pizza” in a vote-herding competition spearheaded by the Northeast Ohio Media Group. But for years before that, the popular pizza shop has been pleasing customers with its fresh take on the Italian staple. 

“It’s kind of a combo between New York style and West Coast,” Tomlinson adds. “The crust is like a baguette consistency — thin, crispy. crusty.”

Unlike Neapolitan-style pies, Noce’s undergo a long, slow bake in moderate oven, allowing the crust to support a generous array of fresh toppings. Those toppings come from small farms like New Creation and Great Lakes Growers, among others. Staples like that airy dough as well as salad dressings are made in-house. 

Unlike the full-service Chardon location, the Tremont spot will be a strictly take-out and delivery operation. The 1,000-square-foot storefront, formerly Big Guy’s Pizza (2539 W. 10th St.), will carry the same menu of salads and two dozen pizzas, with versions available in slice or pie form.

Look for Noce to open in the next couple months. 

This article appears in Aug 24-30, 2016.

For 25 years, Douglas Trattner has worked as a full-time freelance writer, editor and author. His work as co-author on Michael Symon's cookbooks have earned him four New York Times Best-Selling Author honors, while his longstanding role as Scene dining editor has garnered awards of its own.

6 replies on “Chardon-Based Noce Gourmet Pizza to Open Spot in Tremont”

  1. Meh. There’s already a couple places to get a slice in Tremont. Good luck providing better value than Crust. I’ll give Noce a try, but it isn’t exactly a novel business. Bring back the Big Guys Triple H pizza and I’ll be a regular.

  2. Any quality pizza is welcome in Tremont! Hopefully this place will serve late night slices as well, and open on Sunday. Both things Crust does not. Yes, I know Edison’s serves late night slices but I like variety!

  3. @HershelCourt You don’t get it do you, the Big Guys pizza is a communist driven socialist company. The Peoples Republic of Pizza are trying to nationalize all pizza industries you F**K. Don’t you understand that you’re supporting a government enforcing lies about the PIZZA community? You’re the problem in our pizza driven society. GET OUT.

  4. FAT GUYS PIZZA IS LIKE XXX PORN PIZZERIA BUT NOCE IS LIKE PORNOGRAPHIC PIE WITH A PEPPERONI PATTERNS AND CHEESE MEADOWS WHERE THE PEPPERONI CATTLE GRAZE NATURALLY EATING THE ORGANIC CHEESE SO IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THE FIVE SLICE PLACES ORGANICALLY YOU WOULD WANT TO CHOOSE THE TREMONT TREAT OF TRIPLE CRUST MOZZARELLA WHICH ARE NOCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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