Why Di Marco's Pizza matters.
Di Marco's Pizza is a family-operated pizzeria where Newhall's neighborhood character meets daily-made dough, Italian American comfort food and an owner whose pizza career began more than two decades before the local restaurant.
Set along Newhall Avenue near Lyons Avenue and just steps from Newhall Community Center, the restaurant occupies a commercial stretch immediately west of Old Town Newhall between the historic Main Street district and Interstate 5, with William S. Hart Park extending south along Newhall Avenue, Placerita Canyon opening toward the San Gabriel Mountains to the east and the Santa Clara River basin spreading north across the Santa Clarita Valley. Counter ordering and closely arranged tables give the dining room the proportions of a neighborhood pizza shop built equally around dine-in meals and takeout. Pizza production centers the room around dough prepared fresh each morning before pies move through combinations ranging from traditional cheese and Margherita to stuffed-crust and specialty constructions. Pasta, calzones and deli-style sandwiches extend the kitchen beyond its principal baked format without displacing pizza as the defining specialty. The result is a compact Newhall pizzeria whose daily dough production, broad Italian American menu and position between Old Town and the western Santa Clarita Valley preserve the scale of an independently operated neighborhood restaurant.
What defines Di Marco's Pizza.
Di Marco's Pizza is best known for owner Andy's progression from working at Round Table Pizza in the Bay Area more than two decades before establishing his own Newhall Avenue restaurant. Andy subsequently built the local operation as an independently run family business and spent his early years at the restaurant working daily, including weekends, as the shop developed its customer base. Fresh dough prepared every morning became one of the kitchen's principal production practices, joined by real cheese and food cooked to order. The business later expanded into a second Santa Clarita Valley location on Bouquet Canyon Road, turning the original Newhall operation into one half of a two-location local restaurant group. Both restaurants remain under the same Di Marco's banner, with separate ordering operations and a shared menu spanning pizza, pasta, sandwiches, salads, wings and desserts. The Newhall restaurant consequently connects Andy's earlier professional pizza work with a family business that grew beyond its first Santa Clarita Valley storefront.
Specialty pizzas give the menu its strongest separation from a conventional cheese-and-pepperoni program. Mexican Pizza replaces tomato sauce with refried beans before adding mozzarella, chorizo, grilled red onions and jalapeños, then finishes the pie with fresh tomato and cilantro. Chicken Spinach Pizza layers garlic-sautéed spinach, grilled chicken, artichokes and mushrooms over tomato sauce and mozzarella, developing another combination through vegetables prepared separately before baking. Mediterranean Pizza uses grilled eggplant, artichokes and hearts of palm beneath fresh basil, shifting the specialty selection toward vegetables uncommon on neighborhood pizza menus. Ranch Chicken Pizza removes tomato sauce entirely in favor of ranch beneath grilled chicken, mozzarella and red onion, then returns to the same flavor through a finishing drizzle. Stuffed crust supplies a structural variation across the pizza program, and the kitchen's pasta range extends into Chicken Parmesan, meat lasagna, fettuccine Alfredo, carbonara and baked combinations assembled around marinara, Alfredo and mozzarella.
How Di Marco's Pizza fits.
Di Marco's Pizza works as the anchor for an outing connecting Newhall's railroad development with the preserved estate of a silent-Western star and the screen performers commemorated along the community's historic commercial center.
Begin at Saugus Train Station, created as Southern Pacific extended regular service toward Santa Paula in 1887 and subsequently developed a depot at the junction north of Newhall. Theodore Roosevelt stopped there during his 1903 presidential tour, and passenger service continued until 1971 before the final station agent closed the depot in 1978. Threatened with demolition, the building was rescued by the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society and moved two miles during the night of June 24, 1980 to Heritage Junction, where it became the center of a collection preserving structures associated with the valley's railroad, mining, petroleum and settlement history. Continue to Hart Museum, the hilltop residence of William S. Hart, who entered motion pictures around age 50 after a stage career and became one of silent cinema's leading Western actors. Hart spent his retirement on the Newhall property with his sister Mary Ellen and filled the residence with Western art and objects, including works associated with Charles M. Russell, Frederic Remington and James Montgomery Flagg. After Hart died in 1946, his will transferred most of the estate to Los Angeles County for public use, preserving the home and ranch as a direct physical connection between Newhall and the formative period of Hollywood Westerns. Conclude at Walk of Western Stars, where bronze-and-terrazzo markers embedded along Main Street commemorate performers, directors and other figures associated with Western film, television and radio. The program began in 1981, placing names including Gene Autry, William S. Hart and Tom Mix into the streetscape before subsequent classes expanded the memorial across generations of screen Western production. Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and John Wayne are among the figures commemorated along a district whose surrounding ranches, canyons and streets repeatedly became Hollywood filming locations. The progression moves from the railroad junction that connected the valley with regional markets through William S. Hart's preserved home and culminates on Main Street, where Newhall's relationship with Western filmmaking became part of the physical fabric of its historic commercial district.
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