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Luzzo’s Michele Iuliano, whose business card reads, “Owner-Founder Executive Pizzaiolo,” has opened a new restaurant right in the middle of West 27th Street’s Club Row, as if he were a budding Amy Sacco. The so-called "pizzoteca" (pizzeria, paninoteca, and enoteca all in one) boasts a wood-and-gas burning oven for Iuliano's signature pies, but differs from his other outposts thanks to an extensive panini menu and office-worker-baiting midday specials (a $6 pizza special or a $16 two-course prix fixe).  For the late-night crowd, the oven stays fired until the wee hours so the club-goers can get their fix.