\u201cThey found out that was a really good therapy for me,\u201d Sanchez said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sanchez settled in Columbia following his education there and sought to take every opportunity possible to hone his cooking skills. He got his start at Main Street\u2019s Bourbon, and soon after began moving from restaurant to restaurant, as well as doing pop-ups of his own.<\/p>\n
Sanchez said a call from the landlord of the West Columbia building about possibly opening his own place came at the perfect time.\u00a0He found he was ready to chase his dream of scaling up before it was too late.<\/p>\n
For Sanchez, his biggest challenge throughout his culinary career has been working for\u00a0people, being that he constantly did so as a Marine.<\/p>\n
“I was the tip of the spear, you know,” Sanchez said. “I was a grunt.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said New Brooklyn Pizza came mainly from\u00a0a desire to be his own boss and do something he\u2019s proud of.<\/p>\n
Sanchez\u2019s affinity for pizza comes in part from his experiences while stationed in Italy, as well as his love for baked goods and the artisan process that comes with making pies. Though he has made a variety of foods throughout his career, his love for pizza has now come full circle.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been doing this for a long, long time,” Sanchez said. “I built up a nice reputation for myself.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
What makes great pizza<\/p>\n
New Brooklyn Pizza uses a combination of\u00a0artisan sourdough crusts, fermented dough, San Marzano tomatoes and whole-milk mozzarella in its handcrafted pies, according to its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For Sanchez, the dough is what he\u2019s proudest of. His\u00a0process takes five days to perfect and, unlike some other restaurants, Sanchez said New Brooklyn Pizza stands out in how every item is made from scratch. Menu items like the \u201cYardbird Pizza\u201d use in-house smoked chicken, while the \u201cState Street Pizza\u201d uses cup-and-char battistoni pepperonis and fresh ricotta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey found out that was a really good therapy for me,\u201d Sanchez said.\u00a0 Sanchez settled in Columbia following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1149,98,100,99,9868,1070,143283,143284,9,24,63,61017,58147,1302,7980,143285,143286,143287],"class_list":["post-399556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-art","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cooking","tag-food","tag-hector-sanchez","tag-new-brooklyn-pizza","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-opening","tag-pizzeria","tag-restaurant","tag-story","tag-west-columbia","tag-west-columbia-pizza","tag-west-columbia-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}