Olives and Oil New Haven

What Olives and Oil New Haven does

Olives and Oil New Haven is a single-location, full-service Italian restaurant operating at 124 Temple Street in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, founded in 2016 as part of the Fork Hospitality group. The restaurant serves local residents, downtown workers, and visitors with house-made pasta, gourmet pizzas, and locally-sourced cheeses, branded as "Electric Italian" — a modern reinterpretation of classic Italian cuisine. The physical footprint includes a stone oven pizza station and brick oven on display, supporting both dine-in service and a hands-on cooking class program (Pizza, Pasta, Mozzarella, and Cannoli) led by Chef John.

The business operates on a diversified transaction-fee revenue model spanning four streams: dine-in restaurant service, $80/person cooking classes held roughly every other Saturday, private event hosting with tiered food ($15–$39/person) and beverage ($25–$38/person) packages, and catering delivered through sister brand Shaken and Stirred Catered Events. Distribution is direct-to-consumer, facilitated by OpenTable for reservations, Toasttab for online ordering, and Tripleseat for event management, with gift cards sold through the Fork Hospitality platform. The entity is organized as Fork Hospitality 2 LLC dba Olives and Oil, a Connecticut LLC wholly owned by Fork Hospitality LLC, which also operates Elm City Social, Tomato Joe's, Mama Luke's, Shaken & Stirred Catered Events, New England's Finest, and Smallbatch Cocktail Co. The team is small, with approximately 5 employees and active hiring for Sous Chef, Line Cook, and Assistant Manager roles.

Name

Olives and Oil New Haven

Legal name

Fork Hospitality 2 LLC

Website

https://olivesandoil.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Olives and Oil New Haven is a single-location Italian restaurant in downtown New Haven, CT, serving local diners, private event hosts, and cooking class participants with house-made pasta, wood-fired pizza, and catering services under the Fork Hospitality group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Italian Restaurant / Hospitality Services

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511)

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Brasseries, Bistros & Trattorias (THAFACAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Special Occasion & Destination Restaurants (THAFACAK)

Keywords

• Italian restaurant dining
• Cooking class experiences
• Private event catering
• Gourmet pizza venue
• Farm-to-table cuisine

Headquarters

HQ city

New Haven

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Dining: Full-service Italian restaurant offering dine-in service for lunch and dinner with house-made pasta, gourmet pizzas, and locally-sourced cheeses
2. Cooking Classes: Pizza, Pasta, and Cannoli making classes at $80 per person, lasting approximately 2 hours, typically held every other Saturday afternoon
3. Private Events & Catering: Event venue hosting with customizable menus, party packages, and catering services for events of various sizes
4. Gift Cards: Physical and e-gift cards sold through Fork Hospitality platform

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Olives and Oil New Haven is a full-service Italian restaurant offering house-made pasta, gourmet wood-fired pizzas, and locally-sourced cheeses with a modern twist on classic Italian cuisine. Beyond dine-in lunch and dinner service, it operates chef-led hands-on cooking classes (Pizza, Pasta, Mozzarella, Cannoli) in its open-air kitchen and hosts private events and celebrations in its brick-oven-lined venue, with catering delivered through sister company Shaken and Stirred Events.

Product overview

Olives and Oil New Haven is a single-location Italian restaurant operated by Fork Hospitality, offering a unified dining experience centered on modern Italian cuisine with house-made pasta, gourmet pizzas, and locally-sourced ingredients. The business operates as an integrated hospitality offering that combines the core restaurant dining service with cooking classes (pizza, pasta, mozzarella, and cannoli), private event hosting, and online ordering. Catering services are delivered through the affiliated brand Shaken and Stirred Events.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dining Restaurant Full-service Italian restaurant offering house-made pasta dishes, gourmet pizzas, and locally-sourced cheeses with a modern twist on classic Italian cuisine, available for lunch and dinner dine-in service.
• Cooking Classes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Shaken and Stirred Catered EventscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSister catering company under Fork Hospitality providing in-home and in-office catering across Connecticut. Chef John brings restaurant-quality dining to off-site events.
• Fork HospitalitycoreOthersParent company and brand operator managing multiple restaurant concepts including Elm City Social, Tomato Joe's, Mama Luke's, and Olives and Oil Pizzeria

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Cozymeal: Online marketplace for cooking classes and culinary experiences. Comparable as an alternative channel competing for the same hands-on cooking class revenue stream that Olives and Oil operates bi-weekly at $80 per participant.

Direct peers

• Sally's Apizza: Iconic New Haven pizzeria founded in 1938, famous for its coal-fired thin-crust apizza. Directly comparable as a New Haven pizza-focused Italian dining destination competing for the same local diners, downtown traffic, and visitor demand.
• Modern Apizza: Long-established New Haven pizzeria (est. 1934) known for brick-oven coal-fired pizza. Comparable as a New Haven Italian pizza competitor targeting the same local and visitor traffic with similar brick-oven cooking methodology.
• Elm City Social: Sister brand under Fork Hospitality, operating as a gastropub/bar in New Haven. Comparable as a sibling restaurant concept sharing the same parent company, downtown New Haven operating environment, customer demographic, and management infrastructure.
• Consiglio's Restaurant: Long-running New Haven Italian restaurant (est. 1938) serving traditional pasta and Italian fare. Comparable as an established downtown New Haven Italian dining competitor with similar cuisine category and full-service format.
• Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana: Legendary New Haven pizzeria (est. 1925) and originator of the New Haven-style white clam pizza. Comparable as a heritage Italian pizza destination competing for the same downtown New Haven customer base and tourist traffic.
• Union League Cafe: Upscale Italian restaurant in downtown New Haven serving full-service cuisine. Comparable as a downtown New Haven destination-dining concept targeting special occasion, business, and tourist diners with similar price point and menu category.
• Mama Luke's: Sister restaurant under Fork Hospitality (TJs Restaurant Group LLC). Comparable as a sibling brand sharing parent company operations, supply chain, group-level marketing, and Connecticut restaurant operating expertise.
• Tomato Joe's: Sister pizza concept under Fork Hospitality (TJs Rocky Hill LLC). Comparable as a sibling brand sharing parent company infrastructure, menu overlap, and pizza-focused target customer segment within the same restaurant group.

Broad incumbents

• Sur La Table: National specialty cooking retailer offering in-store cooking classes across many locations. Comparable as a broad incumbent in the cooking class category that competes for the same experiential culinary education demand, though with retail-storefront delivery model rather than restaurant-based.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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