Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
View pictures of the new downtown restaurant, which was formerly a funeral home. It is getting ready to open in August.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
Parts of the old elevator, used in the days when the mortuary was in business, have been salvaged to form the base of a table located in the old chapel. The main floor of the two-story building includes a dining room and bar.
Reilly Funeral Home
Reilly Funeral Home (sign read "Reilly Undertaking Company") at Scott and Pennington in Tucson in June, 1965.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
Servers, bartenders and other staff gather in the area of the old chapel as they go through an orientation. The main floor of the two-story building includes a dining room and bar. The restaurant on the main floor is scheduled to open in early August with the patio seating and a beer garden in the garage which is scheduled to open later.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
Staff members go through an orientation as they get acquainted with procedures when ordering drinks at the bar at Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink. The new restaurant featuring Italian food such as pizzas, sandwiches, freshly baked breads, appetizers, homemade pastas, craft beers, wine and cocktails is in downtown Tucson on the site of the former Reilly Funeral Home. The structure was built in 1906 and operated as a mortuary until 1990.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
The bar facing features old Italian beer and wine posters at Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink. The new restaurant features Italian food such as pizzas, sandwiches, freshly baked breads, appetizers, homemade pastas, craft beers, wine and cocktails.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
As many as 20 various types of ice cold beer can be ready to go at Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
In the basement, manager Andrew Rosenfeld explains how the beer kegs are connected to the taps directly above the beer cooler which is kept at 35 degrees.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
Sous chef Eddie Bayze brushes the pizza oven at Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink. Bayze, who went to culinary arts school with former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, has also helped to open up the Ritz Carlton, Dove Mountain.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
Owner Tyler Fenton, right, works in the kitchen at Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink which will be featuring Italian food such as pizzas, sandwiches, freshly baked breads, appetizers, homemade pastas, craft beers, wine and cocktails in downtown Tucson.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
Brothers and owners Zach, left, and Tyler Fenton discuss business near the entrance at Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
On April 4, 2012, Tyler Fenton, far right, the owner of Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink and his manager, Andrew Rosenfeld, right foreground, talked with architects and designers in what is expected to the bar area for the new business.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
Earlier this year during the early stages development, manager Andrew Rosenfeld, left, and owner Tyler Fenton discuss future plans for the business while they stood in the area of the old chapel.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
In April, workers replaced a beam into the ceiling of the old Reilly Funeral Home which was being remodeled and turned into the Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink. This is now the kitchen area.
Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink
This is the exterior of the old Reilly funeral home which is being remodeled and turned into the Reilly Craft Pizza and Drink restaurant on Pennington.
Reilly Craft Pizza & Drink, in the old Reilly Funeral Home at 101 E. Pennington St. is opening for business today.