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“I’ve always loved pizza it warms my soul,” she says. After moving to Portland after stints in Florida, California, and New York, she worked her way through a few Portland Italian restaurants - A Cena, Caffe Mingo - before the former PieVino space fell in her lap. She took her first restaurant job at 15 “to get out of school,” and ended up working through most food service jobs, from bussing tables to bartending to serving. Her family is Italian American, and she was born in Queens. Rollo has a long, storied history with pizza, and the food industry at large. “I’m just humbly trying to serve this neighborhood.” “I’m not trying to be the pizza queen,” she says. What that means: The pizzas at Pizzeria Stellina will be lightly tangy, char-speckled, Neapolitan-looking pies, with a balance of airy crumb and crispy structure. Rollo, on the other hand, will slow-ferment a dough made with Walla Walla-grown hard red spring wheat flour (with 70 percent hydration, for you pizza nerds out there) over two-to-three days, before it hits a hot deck oven. fast food style - soft, maybe a little thick, with quick ferment and a pale crust.
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Excluding the New York slices at A Cena offshoot Sunny’s and the personal pies at the Muddy Rudder, Sellwood’s pizza scene is primarily dominated by chains: Bellagios, Pizzicato, Papa Murphy’s. Then again, what Rollo will be serving at her incoming restaurant, Pizzeria Stellina, won’t exactly be ubiquitous in that neighborhood. “But in New York, there’s a pizza place on every corner. “People say, ‘Why are you opening a pizza place? There are so many pizza places in Sellwood,’” she says, sitting at a table in her future restaurant. When Gina Rollo tells people she’s opening a pizzeria in Sellwood-Moreland, they get concerned.