Would You Spend $100 for a Pizza Pie?

East Atlanta's Asylum restaurant has a pizza pie on the menu for $100.

To some folks, you'd have to be nuts to pay $100 for a 12-inch pizza pie. Perhaps it's fitting, then, that the "Crazy Capobianco" pizza is one of the offerings at Asylum, the restaurant and bar that opened July 13 in the old Echo Lounge-turned-Icehouse space in East Atlanta Village. Named for Franky Capobianco, Asylum's chef, the pie is his brainchild, Jonathan Hammond, the restaurant's general manager, told East Atlanta Patch. Capobianco, a New Orleans native, was the chef for Nawlin's, the now-closed eatery that operated in My Sister's Room, the EAV's lesbian bar. " 'It's called the Asylum, so we should do something crazy,' " Hammond recounted Capobianco as saying. So the meal was born with an ingredients list so decadent as to make …

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