From a food truck to Rockingham Road
One oven, one family, and no shortcuts anywhere in the building.
Pizza started early for Josh Buxton, in his great-aunt’s kitchen, where making it was the comfort he kept coming back to. In 2019 he bought a retired FBI command center at auction and gutted it into a pizza truck. Four summers on the road, and New Hampshire named it the state’s best food truck. Twice.
On Valentine’s Day 2024, Josh and Alyssa opened the doors on Rockingham Road, and the lot filled with headlights, people waiting in their cars for pizza. Same dough, three days in the making, not a spoonful of sugar in it. Same sauce: good tomatoes and salt, nothing else. The new part is a kitchen big enough to roll pasta and a room you will want to stay in.
Everyone pitches in
The same great-aunt who taught Josh pizza now grows the basil, thirty plants strong. Mom bakes the desserts, three at a time. The bar top used to be a bowling lane. The paintings on the walls are actual family, and so is the pottery on the shelves.
No TVs. No plastic. Nothing between you and dinner.
“It’s a place to experience your food. It’s all about making those connections. I want you to share everything.”
Josh Buxton, in the Derry News
