Resy sat down with Qiana and Michele Di Bari for a deep dive into the story behind Sale Pepe — from Michele's roots in Milan and the lessons learned at Brooklyn's legendary Franny's, to the 2023 Lahaina wildfire that destroyed everything they'd built, and the remarkable community-fueled comeback that made Sale Pepe the first restaurant on the island to rebuild and reopen. Writer Lizzie Takimoto traces a decade of dough craft, aloha spirit, and the kind of neighborhood hospitality that keeps people coming back — and that had the community raising $100,000 to make sure they did.

Two-time James Beard Award winner and Resy managing editor Jon Bonné set out to map the state of pizza across America — and Sale Pepe made the cut. In his sweeping essay on the rise of the country's pizza culture, Bonné calls out Qiana and Michele Di Bari's Maui restaurant as proof that pizza exceptionalism now reaches every corner of the country, noting the restaurant's signature Milan-Brooklyn spirit as a prime example of the hybrid, deeply personal approach defining the best pizzerias in the nation today.