Whats French for Pizza?
Ciro’s Coté Sud is a tiny French restaurant with some of the best pizza around 04/05/02By Brett Anderson Restaurant critic Sometimes, purchasing a restaurant doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want with it. Take the case of Sophie and Ollivier Guiot. Just over five years ago, the couple bought Ciro’s, an Uptown pizza joint. Ollivier emphasizes “joint” when describing the condition of the place when he bought it. Layers of linoleum and plywood obscured natural wood floors. A brick pizza oven was disembodied from the rest of the kitchen. No windows. “It felt like a tunnel,” Ollivier said. So the Guiots closed the restaurant for five months of renovations. They liberated the wood floor, reintroduced windows, moved the oven to a more space-efficient position in the kitchen. When it reopened as Ciro’s Coté Sud, regulars who’d been frequenting Ciro’s since its opening in 1963 probably didn’t even recognize the place. Except for one thing: The pizza. “The first day we opened,” Ollivier said
