David Foulquier ate pizza when he was a kid in New York, just like most kids everywhere. A lot of pizza.
After school, he’d get slices. He ate pizza and pies from Randazzo’s and John’s of Bleecker Street. And he was looking forward to going out for pizza with his family and having what he calls “a proper pizza meal.”
Now, with the help of his brother Joshua and business partner Danielle Hultman, the owner of Eleventh Street Pizza in downtown Miami has opened a second, bigger store in Kendall.
The new Eleventh Street Pizza is in a corner of Downtown Dadeland. It has a lower price point and twice as much room, and it focuses on whole pies.
Foulquier has been in the restaurant business for a long time. He ran the late, well-known Fooq’s, which served French-Persian food in the same spot where the first Eleventh Street Pizza opened. He said he has always wanted to serve a “proper pizza meal.”
“That area, with all the late-night clubs and bars, is perfect for slices,” he said of the first restaurant, which opened in 2021. “Because of how big it was, we had to offer cuts. There wasn’t enough room to seat everyone.”
The famous sourdough pies made from a sourdough starter (or mother, if you prefer) that has been cared for seven years will be served at the new Dadeland location, which he sees as a more family-friendly place. You can order it in the usual thin-crust style or in the Sicilian square-cut style, which Foulquier says is more of a mix between Sicilian and Detroit-style pie.
“It’s light, tall, and crunchy, and it has what people call “cheesy crust” on the edges,” he said.
The new round pie size is 14 inches, which is a little smaller than the old size. It can feed two people or one really hungry person. They are 8 inches by 10 inches and can feed two or three people. The Classic Cheese, the Brooklyn Cheese with sauce on top, and the Pepperoni and Hot Honey are some of the options.
Specialty pizzas are also available, like the Wild Shroom, which has cremini mushrooms, thyme, shallots, mozzarella, garlic confit, caramelized onions, and parsley, and the La Provencal, which has organic Bianco DiNapoli tomatoes, confit garlic, roasted red onions, zucchini, basil, pepperoncini, and sourdough breadcrumbs.
Beer and wine will also be on the menu.
Foulquier said that Downtown Dadeland is a great place for restaurants. He and his brother also own Sushi Noz in Manhattan, which opened in 2018 and got a Michelin star.
“It’s a great way to be a big fish in a small pond,” he said, instead of being in the most popular part of Wynwood, where a new hot restaurant opens every day. “This is a place for families. You don’t have to drive all the way downtown to get good pizza.”
