By Allen Brewer

After several years of planning, Emily Blount has finally opened her fist restaurant, Saint Leo, in the heart of Oxford. The old fashion wood-fire oven pizza restaurant, located on the east side of the Square, offers a newer, fresher taste for local pizza lovers.

Opening on June 30, Saint Leo offers Oxonians a little slice of Rome in Mississippi. Blount has lived in many different places, including New York, but when she moved to Mississippi she missed not having traditional wood-fire cooked pizza. After seeing that Oxford didn't have the types of restaurants to make the kind of pizza she liked, she decided to open her own.

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