Mystic Pizza

Restaurant

Mystic Pizza

56 West Main Street, Mystic, 06355, CT

Yes, that Mystic Pizza — setting for the runaway late-1980s blockbuster that launched Julia Roberts’ career. The downtown pizzeria is still living off the movie’s fame, with the DVD played on repeat on a flatscreen in the entrance way, framed publicity stills (with an impossibly young looking Roberts) on the walls, and a merchandise shop with the restaurants logo printed on shirts, aprons, keychains, shot glasses and countless other memorabilia items. Of course, the movie wouldn’t be nearly as popular if the pizza weren’t so good, and regulars still line up with the tourists for the Zelepos family’€™s famed “secret recipe,” including the house specialty piled high with pepperoni, sausage, meatballs and veggies.