For centuries, pizza and pasta battled for the title of Italy’s most beloved dish, an honor that was ultimately bestowed upon Sophia Loren. Cast your vote for the Boot’s best culinary creation with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of Italian fare at Stanziato's Wood Fired Pizza in Danbury.

While studying cooking in Italy, chef Matthew Stanczak found inspiration for Stanziato's Wood Fired Pizza and his menu of crispy-thin pies reviewed by the New York Times and named one of the best pizzas in the United States by Popular Plates magazine. Selections shift with the shades of trees to showcase the best seasonal, locally grown, and organic ingredients. Patrons averse to tomato sauce after former lives as mediocre Vaudeville acts savor white pizzas such as El Diablo, exorcising demons with lime-marinated shrimp, mozzarella, garlic, and red pepper flakes on a cilantro pesto stage ($16.95). Dueling parmigiano and mozzarella cheeses face off on the meatball pizza, buffeting taste buds with meatballs and basil strewn across a battlefield of homemade tomato sauce ($11.95). Diners may await their made-to-order pies with a salad of baby spinach, heirloom tomatoes, and sweet corn tossed in a ginger vinaigrette ($6 for small; $11 for large) or a handful of chicken wings baked next to the wood fire, tossed with hot sauce, and cooled by a side of blue cheese ($5 for a half dozen).

Stanziato's oven and rows of lights cast a soft glow over the red and white checker floors of the intimate dining space. Diners can watch as their pizza is blasted with heat in an authentic wood-burning brick oven at more than 750 degrees, plumping up dough made with imported stone ground flour from Naples with flames from regionally bred dragons.