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Double Decker Pizza Opens 4th Location In Media

Media Borough's newest pizza place opened on Monday.

The home of the original Inside-Out Pizza can now call Media its newest home.

Double Decker Pizza, on Baltimore Avenue near Media Ski and Snowboard, officially opened its doors on Monday.

Extensive renovations and re-construction were needed to convert what once was five different shops into the now two-story restaurant.

The family-owned restaurant offers pizza, stromboli, wings, wraps, sandwiches, burgers, salads and much more. The upstairs dining area is available for private parties and the front counter offers diners a convenient charging, USB and Wifi station and even the ability to print out a last minute report for those procrastinators.

Double Decker Pizza first opened in 1976 in Ridley Township when Roula Gianneas and her parents decided it was their turn to run a pizza shop.

Andreas Vlazakis, Roula Gianneas' father, was a carpenter and had been creating tables and countertops for area pizza shops and decided one day it was time that he opened his own pizza shop,  Roula Gianneas says.

"We figured, why not open one of our own," she says.

Gianneas says she came up with the name Double Decker, because she always liked double scoop ice cream and double decker buses, and she didn't want to go with a family name.

"We thought, Double Decker will do, and I had it registered before my dad changed his mind," she says.

Andreas Vlazakis, 83, is still creating the tables and counters for Double Decker. He built the charger station counter at the Media location, as well as countertops, cabinets and 40 plus tables.

Dimitri Gianneas, Roula's son and Vlazakis' grandson, says Double Decker makes its own dough, blends its own cheeses to create a special three-cheese combo and spices its own sauces.

But, the pizza place's biggest claim to fame is the Inside-Out. It's sort of like a calzone but of course much better, Dimitri Gianneas explains, and combines their speciality cheeses, sauce and homemade dough to create a pizza pocket and then they deep fry it (or bake it for the health conscience).

Stop in today and give Double Decker Pizza a taste. 


Double Decker Pizza, located at 415 E. Baltimore Ave. in Media, is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to midnight, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. and Sunday noon to 10 p.m. 




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