If Al Forno is best known for its pizzas ... Until it’s more. Confit and roasted duck legs, with an orange-kumquat glaze, potato gratin, and broccoli rabe, is a table favorite.

Predating the current debate in food circles by decades, Al Forno has long rejected the idea of reservations. Show up early or late or there will usually be a wait. A friend and I arrived around 6 ...

Also impressive was the linguine with creamy egg, duck bacon, and pea tendrils – Al Forno’s version of pasta carbonara, executed with a much lighter touch than usual. The mains were not quite ...

Paltrow also posted that she had visited Al Forno, 577 South Water St., where she ordered their famed grilled pizza, along with avocado salad, linguini with clams, duck confit and baked pasta.

Hunter Walker gets us seriously hungry for some grilled pizza in Providence. Al Forno means “from the stove” in Italian, a style of cooking from northern Italy that uses a wood-fired brick oven.

Long before COVID-19 utterly transformed how restaurants operate, Johanne Killeen, chef-owner of Al Forno in Providence, had watched the hospitality industry undergo profound change. "When we ...