I’m sorry that it’s taken me nearly a year to find my way into the artfully-appointed 1889 Pizza Napoletana, the stylish pizzeria created by Kelli and Jason Kolich in Kansas City, Kansas.

The venue is located in the NorthWood Shopping Center, the once-dowdy shopping strip that formerly housed a Maj-R Thrift and Discount Store and the eccentric China Tom’s restaurant. The new incarnation of the strip center is considerably more glamorous and this expensively-mounted pizza restaurant, with its sleek tile floors and glittering chandeliers, adds an alluring note to the upscale transformation.