i Fratelli
i Fratelli is famous for their free delivery within an eight-minute radius. The company motto is, "Never trust a round pizza."
i Fratelli, which means “brothers” in Italian, was founded in Irving in 1987 by four such brothers: George, David, Mike, and Darrell Cole. Now, their pizza passion has spread to 19 locations in Texas, including one in Fort Worth, which opened about two years ago in the hospital district on 8th Avenue by franchisees Johnny Mazon and Becky Mazon.
Fort Worth will gain its second location soon. The brand’s twentieth store will open in a modest strip center, whose most notable nearby anchors include a Lowe’s and a PetSmart. The social media announcement read, in part: “The Mazons are having so much fun serving Fairmount and environs, they're opening a second location at 5836 SW Loop 820.”
Another i Fratelli Pizza (No. 21) will be opening about the same timeframe at 2700 Western Center Blvd., Suite 102. That north Fort Worth location is by a different franchisee, Paul Watrous, but promises residents near Western Center the same kind of take-out deliciousness.
The store is not a sit-down place. They are all take-out models. “The finish out looks like a little pizza shop has been dropped into a warehouse,” Johnny Mazon says.
i Fratelli is famous for their free delivery within an eight-minute radius, so the residents of Southwest Fort Worth have been licking their lips since the opening was first announced last fall. Signage is now up on the building at the shopping center, and Johnny Mazon says he expects it to be up and running close to the end of February, if not before.
The company motto is, “Never trust a round pizza,” and you won’t find any at i Fratelli. Theirs are glorious ovals (Johnny describes them as racetracks) of cracker-thin crusts, topped with ample goodies. “Our dough is made fresh, as are all our ingredients and salad dressings,” he says. My personal favorite is the Del Bianco pizza which features Bianco sauce, breakfast bacon, fresh spinach, Roma tomato dices.
