La Mozzarella Flies Fresh Cheese in From Italy for Denver’s Top Restaurants

If you’ve eaten fresh mozzarella di bufala at a restaurant in the metro area, it’s likely that it was made in Italy just days before and flown in by La Mozzarella, or La Mozz, a Denver- and Chicago-based distributor of Italians meats and cheeses.

“It is all of the things that you look for as a chef,” says Russell Stippich, executive chef at Bar Dough in LoHi, one of the city’s best Italian restaurants. It sources its mozzarella di bufala, ricotta di bufala and prosciutto from La Mozz. “Guests can tell the difference. We have several people a week mention how amazing the cheese on the pizza is. It’s awesome to get to talk to them about where it’s from and why it’s so special.”

La Mozz started in Chicago in 2002, when Lara Postiglione and her husband, Rosario, moved to the U.S. after…