Madison Avenue Pizza

Sean Ferraro started off washing dishes and rolling dough balls at a little pizza restaurant in Largo, FL when I was 14 years old. From there, he worked his way through the different positions in the restaurant industry, both in the kitchen and dining room, through the end of college. After college, he moved to South Florida to work in the hotel industry, managing restaurants in luxury hotels. Although he enjoyed his time down there, he always dreamed of coming back home to the Tampa Bay area. When the opportunity arose for his family to move north, they took it. He and his wife sold their house, quit their jobs, and headed north to re-settle their family and start a restaurant in Tampa Bay.

They are passionate about food. It’s been a way of life, coming from a big Italian family that doesn’t hesitate to spend the whole day in the kitchen cooking for a big family dinner. His dad taught him how to appreciate the art of cooking food from scratch. They spent many Sundays in the kitchen hovering over a giant pot of simmering tomato sauce that was full of all of our favorite things: meatballs, sausage and pork chops. Every so often they would dunk some crusty Italian bread in the pot to see how the sauce was coming along. Those are some of his favorite memories that he hopes to share with his sons as they get older.

Madison Avenue Pizza is a culmination of all of the things that he experienced growing up in an Italian family and working in the restaurant industry for over 20 years. They cook things the old fashioned way, using only the freshest ingredients possible and making everything they can from scratch in our kitchen. They don’t have giant coolers and freezers full of products, they bring ingredients in through the week as they need them.

The entire Ferraro family thanks for your patronage and support and hopes that you enjoy their homemade food, and they look forward to serving you when you come visit!