Rosie's Pizza Palace

About

Rosie's Pizza has been serving Lorain since 1954. Owned and Operated by Jason Lute from Rand University Tuesday Thru Saturday 4pm-9:30pm and Sunday 3pm-9pm

Story

Rosie’s Pizza Palace has been making pizzas since 1965. The mom-and-pop pizza parlor was opened by the “Queen of Pizza”, Rosie Brest. The longest running pizza maker in America started making pizzas in the current shop in 1954 when it was The Pizza House. In 1959 she fixed up an old brick building in Avon at Lear-Nagle and Detroit roads and opened it as the first Rosie's Pizza. During the early 1960s, Brest operated her business out of a building on Ninth and Broadway in Lorain, next to Miraldi's Cafe. Then, when Jack Karnik offered to sell Brest The Pizza House in 1965, she jumped at the chance and was a fixture there until she passed in 2007 at the age of 93. She was assisted by her twin daughters Dorthy (Dottie) Ryan and Delores (Dee)'
The two-story white frame building is a landmark in Lorain and is Owned and Operated by Jason Lute, Rosie’s grandson and the son of Dottie. The crust, pizza sauce and fresh ingredients are staples at Rosie's Pizza, and the smell wafting from the building often pulls new customers inside. The dough and pizza sauce are made each morning from secret recipes. But if you want Lorain’s finest pie you will have to order early because once they’re out of the dough they made for the day, they’re done making pizzas for the night.