Giovanni’s Pizza is the kind of place that makes you question everything you thought you knew about pizza in the Southwest.

Here, you’ll find simple Italian-American dishes but with his acquired gourmet touch. His customers can’t get enough.

If you walked into Giovanni’s when it first opened in 1976 and then again today, you’d notice not much has changed.

Joe’s Meat Market opened Giovanni’s restaurant, named after its young chef, in a former church fellowship hall next to the ...