Pizzeria to serve Neapolitan pizza, beer, wine in Red Bank

Say it like this: “Core Tee Lay.”

Those mysterious words – surrounded by flames – have been displayed for weeks on giant window cling advertisements in a vacant commercial building at 4400 Dayton Blvd. in Red Bank just one business away from Dub’s Place BBQ and Burgers.

It’s how to say Pizzeria Cortile, a restaurant that Justin and Amanda Bennett plan to open in late January or early February as the permanent home for Local Slice, the food truck business they started in 2012.

Cortile is Italian for “courtyard” or “gathering place for the community,” Justin Bennett said. The restaurant will be that, he hopes – and also will serve as an introduction to the style of thin-crust Neapolitan-style pizza that the Bennetts love and have tasted first-hand during a trip to Naples, Italy.