Have Pizza, Will Barter: The Irregular Story of Unregular Pizza

In the middle of the pandemic, Gabriele Lamonaca built a business—and human connections—swapping over-the-top pies for homemade goods

Gabriele Lamonaca (L) and Salvatore Gagliardo at Unregular Pizza in New York. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

What would you give for a fresh-baked pizza? For some people, anything from homemade cocktails to caviar to a night in a hotel penthouse, Gabriele Lamonaca discovered.

The 31-year-old Rome-born, New York City-based pizzaiolo is the creator of Unregular Pizza, a new pizzeria built on an age-old idea: bartering.