V. Paul’s Italian Ristorante and Pensacola Energy featured in national restaurant industry magazine


  • July 8, 2015
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One of Downtown Pensacola’s newest restaurants was recently featured in Cooking For Profit magazine, a professional-level monthly trade publication directed to owners, managers and chefs of food service facilities.

The national magazine, which has published for more than 80 years and has a 65,000-membered audience, presents stories, recipes and feature spreads about the benefits of cooking with natural gas.

V. Paul’s Italian Ristorante, owned by Paul Bruno, Jr. and his partner David Hambrick, opened in the historical Brent building in August 2014 with Executive Chef Tricia Horton at the helm.

The restaurant has a seating capacity for 200 and features a kitchen filled with a vast lineup of natural gas cooking equipment and an exhibition cooking area.

“Gas cooking is a key ingredient to our cooking regimen with nearly one million BTUs of connected equipment in our overall cooking lineup,” said Horton.

In the magazine article, Horton explains that her customers enjoy watching their food being prepared before their eyes, and that gas is a key and entertaining ingredient in their display cooking area.

Pensacola Energy, owned and operated by the City of Pensacola, provides the natural gas energy to V. Paul’s, along with thousands of customers in the city. Pensacola Energy assisted V. Paul’s owners and staff during the renovation and equipment selection phase of the restaurant’s opening. The restaurant also appeared on Pensacola Energy’s locally televised cooking show, “Coastal Cooking.”

“V. Paul’s has been a tremendous addition to Palafox (Street), which was recently named one of the American Planning Associations’ Great Streets in America,” said Ashton Hayward, Mayor of Pensacola. “Like many of the great restaurants in Downtown Pensacola, V. Paul’s chooses to cook with natural gas – the best, most economic choice and the choice of top chefs around the country.”

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