Frenchie Pizza, a new fast-casual concept featuring thin-crust American pizzas as well as European flatbreads called flammekueche, opens at 11 a.m. Thursday in south Gilbert.
It takes over the former My Pie Pizza in the Crossroads Towne Center on the southeast corner of Gilbert and the 202.
Although the restaurant will be geared toward takeout, there will be a 30-seat dining area. Six beers on tap, single-serve bottles of wine, and a margarita machine will be available for dine-in guests.
The restaurant’s name is a reference to owners Fabrice and Máiréad Buschtetz, who moved to the Valley from France in 2013, and also the flammekueche (pictured), a specialty of the Alsace region of France.
Traditional ‘‘flammes,’’ as they are called, have a tangy white sauce, smoked bacon, and onions, but Frenchie Pizza also will offer versions with additional toppings, as well as dessert flammes.
Frenchie Pizza will be the fourth member of the Buschtetz Family Restaurant Group, which also includes Cuisine & Wine Bistro in south Chandler and B Gastrobar and Copper & Logs in Gilbert.
