Tony Gemignani, the Bay Area’s 13-time world pizza champion and U.S. Ambassador of Neapolitan Pizza, is the restaurateur behind pizza restaurants from Walnut Creek to San Francisco and across the U.S.

If you’ve ever visited a New York City pizza joint, then you probably already know that there are two primary pizza styles that NYC can call its own: There’s the classic, thin-crusted, round pie, ...