Vincent Perricone learned from the best.
So when Slice of New Haven pizza truck took the title “Best in Fest” at Connecticut Pizza & Brew Fest against the heavy hitters, Pepe’s, Zuppardi’s, Big Green Truck, you had to consider the owner.
In what is is like an Ivy League education in pizza, Perricone, 36, worked at Pepe’s on Wooster Street for 10 years, taught by the late Gary Bimonte, grandson of Frank Pepe and an owner of Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, and then worked four years for Doug Coffin, founder and at the time, owner of wildly popular Big Green Truck Pizza…