I met him long ago at
Tysons Galleria. At Andy's pizza.
Here to meet the owner and try his pizza.
It's when an international award.
Hopefully he lets me try it.
I'm going to make him an
offer he can't refuse.
Bring me a set up a box of gloves
right up here ready for pizza.
Where is the man there he is.
Andy brown. Andy's pizza.
Hey Adam audio, nice to meet you I'm
coming in thanks for having us over.
Congratulations on the massive ward.
Best pizza in the world. Best pizza.
International championships Italy
was there so very sorry for them.
This is where it was born.
Yeah this is this is the founding store.
The first one here in Tysons Corner.
Why don't we whip one up and
you tell me all about it? Yeah,
let's make some people.
Doe is probably what we do best here.
The most important thing is
that time is flavor and Brett.
I came to this door here in Tysons.
I grabbed six dough balls.
I put them in a Styrofoam
cooler and that was my carry on.
I don't mean to be cheesy, but just
share with me a slice of what it was
like to spend a day there in Vegas
at this pizza Expo dough nating your
time to make all these pieces for
this competition. It's intimidating,
the kitchen is huge.
There's 13 different kinds of ovens.
There's 90 competitors and
everybody is in this prep area.
All these tables lined up chopping,
sauteing, prepping.
Crazy ingredients,
foraged mushrooms,
exotic cheeses and I'm looking around
like maybe I have the wrong approach.
This is just a cheese pizza.
He clearly beat out some some
outstanding master pizza makers.
He's truly, you know,
one of the best pizza oil is in
the country, if not the world.
You want to see this blistering
on the outside here you want to
see this nice coloring inside.
You want to see some live yeast
bubbling in his pizza? Let's eat
it looks gorgeous. Let's do it.
Bout to get down with this pizza.
Pulled this pizza out of the oven in Vegas.
Yeah, the Expo for the pizza
challenge looked just like this.
What did you say to yourself when
you saw it come out of the oven?
That's gonna win.
It's what I said. I said that's gonna win
Andy's pizza can legitimately claim having
the best cheese pizza in the world,
correct? Yes, OK and there is no.
You know Voting's got a
bad rap since November.
There were no shenanigans.
There were no broken machine,
no fraud. Yeah,
you know, we have a professional
team of judges that we use.
They've been doing this a long time.
You know they have.
No, they have, you know,
certainly an arm linked away from
the competitors in the industry.
Crispy on the bottom.
So often during the inside
you get some brightness,
some acid from the tomatoes with some
fatty from the homok mozzarella.
I am in absolute awe.
That's an amazing piece of brother.
You're out there for the competition,
yeah, so you've got these other
incredible pizza makers around you, yeah?
Who's around you and what's
going on in the competition?
Next to an Italian pizza
maker and a guy from Italy.
Guy from Italy, car guy from Italy.
Heavy accent. He's looking at me and he's
got an exotic cheeses and an olive oil.
Eyedropper for drops of olive oil
and a pastry brush for his flower,
and he looks at me and I have
a can of tomatoes that I've
had a little bit of salt too.
A bag of whole milk,
mozzarella and art doble.
And you're not sweating marinara
next to this guy from Italy with
his eye dropper in his brushes.
He says that when you're competing with,
I said yeah, and I'm going to win.
What is your history of cooking like?
Have you been into pizza
like your whole life,
like you are literally
sitting here before me?
The embodiment of a child's dream.
You are a pizza professional.
Yeah,
who gets to do that?
I started making pizza about
12 years ago at home, you know?
With a pizza stone in the
oven and it I upgraded
to a little, you know, little oven.
I perched on top of a floor
speaker in my studio apartment.
Every day I tried to learn, you know,
I'm I'm rigorously recording all
my processes on my steps and what
I did to make a better pizza.
And, you know, we talked about earlier
pizza scientist pizza scientists.
You have to be.
He's clearly has risen up amongst you,
know a lot of piccioli's pizza makers
throughout the world. And really,
is it almost the pinnacle of success?
This is absolutely incredible.
Thank you son and magnificent job.
Thank you and you deserve all the
credit and success. Thank you.
So I'm really happy for you.