Pizza wasn’t always the plan for Alberta’s owner and pizzaiolo, Beau Mitall. 
 
A Pittsburgh boy, Beau left the Steel City as a teen in pursuit of art fame, studying at New York City’s School of Visual Arts. The 20 years he spent living and working in New York exposed Beau to pizza of all kinds, from dollar slices to the city’s legendary pizzarias. 
 
But when love took him to South Africa in 2004, he realized that good pizza isn’t always so easy to come by. So when Beau began running his wife's traditional South African restaurant in 2006, he took the opportunity to try his hand at making a few pies of his own for staff and friends, without much success. 
 
In 2008, Beau returned to New York and fell in love again. This time with a small, Napoli style pizzeria in the East Village. It was some of the best he had ever had, but was mostly empty and overshadowed by neighboring slice joints. Some might say that this is where Alberta’s really began because as Beau fell deeper and deeper into the traditions of Naples pizza making, he became determined to make quality pizza using those same hand made traditions. 
 
Beau returned home to Pittsburgh in 2015, now with his family in tow, and officially founded Alberta’s Pizza, named in honor of his late mother, Alberta Gail. Started as a pop-up and then a truck that served more than a dozen breweries and events around the Pittsburgh area, Beau began making plans for a more permanent home in 2023. 
 
And that’s how we’re here at 917 Western Ave, still hand mixing dough every day and making fresh mozzarella. The way it was intended. No substitutions.