Customers at a new west Casper restaurant can watch house-made pizza arrive out of the 1,000-degree, Italian-designed wood-fired oven. Ludovico Farm to Wood Flame opened about a month ago with a focus on Italian fare made from scratch and an aim to use local and regional ingredients, operations manager Jason Groves said.

The food ranges from New York- or Detroit-style pizza by the slice to made-from-scratch pastas and tomahawk pork chops that have been marinated for four days. Much of the lunch, dinners, appetizers, desserts and even some drink ingredients are prepared in the free-standing wood-fired oven.