About five years ago, two cousins working on a farm near Mount Kisco were offered a mobile catering pizza oven by someone who no longer wanted it. Natalia Cardona told Westchester Magazine how they answered: "But we don't know what to do with a pizza oven."
For a while it just sat there. Then Cardona and her cousin Laura Arias taught themselves to make pizza. By 2022 they were running it as a real business at farmers' markets, carnivals, school fundraisers and town events around the area. On Oct. 16, 2026, Pizza Girls NY opened its first full-service restaurant at 38 E. Main St. in Mount Kisco, according to The Journal News.
By the time you read this, the restaurant has been open for nearly four weeks. Plenty of people in town already knew the food before the doors opened, because they'd eaten it at the village's own markets and events.
An Oven Before a Lease
Pizza Girls had customers long before it had a lease. The business's own history says it began as a food truck serving farmers markets, private events and pop-ups in Mount Kisco. It grew to three truck ovens and two permanent collaboration locations before the cousins committed to a dining room of their own.
Westchester Magazine reports that demand got big enough this year for both women to leave the farm and make pizza full time. The cousins were born in Colombia and later moved to Westchester, according to News 12. Cardona has called Mount Kisco home base for 28 years. She credits the local business community, including the Mount Kisco Chamber of Commerce, with supporting them from the start.
Finding the space was mostly luck. Cardona told Westchester Magazine that she drove past a "For Lease" sign, asked Arias to grab the number, and they called.
"I said, I think this is it."
The building is the former home of Tamarindos, a Mexican restaurant.
What the Wood Oven Does Indoors
A permanent kitchen lets the cousins cook what a truck can't. According to the restaurant's site, the menu covers scratch-made artisanal pizzas, salads and sweet pizzas. In its preview of the opening, Westchester Magazine reported plans to add pastas and proteins, with the wood oven turning out lasagna and meatballs.
Some of the pop-up habits came along with them. The contact page says there's no phone ordering for takeout or pickup and no delivery. Dine-in is walk-in only, seated first come, first served. Plan to show up hungry and a little early on a busy night.
The Doors Around 38 East Main
Pizza Girls isn't the only new name on this stretch of East Main Street. A few doors away, more storefronts are filling with businesses that also have roots nearby.
- Little Pink Cup, 27 E. Main St. Bonnie Saran owns Little Crepe Street, and she reopened its adjacent coffee shop under this new name. The original shop, Little Spice Bazaar, opened in 2012 and closed during the pandemic. According to News 12, it came back after four and a half years dark with a soft opening in December.
- Lazy Sister, 36 E. Main St. This Chinese restaurant already has a location in Norwalk, Connecticut. The Journal News put its Mount Kisco location on its list of fall openings across Westchester, and the restaurant's website lists the East Main Street address.
That puts three food businesses within roughly a dozen street numbers of each other. Little Pink Cup is the clearest example of the same pattern Pizza Girls followed: start with a following, then expand. Saran told News 12 that the coffee counter now serves baked goods, smoothies, iced drinks and dessert boxes, all made in-house. Head barista and manager Hugo Guzman likes to experiment with Indian spices such as turmeric and ginger in the drinks. In that April interview, Saran said some days brought in nearly 150 people, including visitors from Dobbs Ferry, White Plains and Larchmont.
Where the Pop-Up Circuit Runs in December
The kind of event where Pizza Girls found its first customers is about to fill the same few blocks again. Two dates on the Chamber's calendar matter most this season.
Friday, Dec. 4, 6 to 7 p.m. The Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony is on the Village Green in front of the library at 104 E. Main St. That's the same street as Pizza Girls, Lazy Sister and Little Pink Cup, just a short walk up.
Saturday, Dec. 12, noon to 4 p.m. HOLIDAY'FEST! and the MKCC Cookie Crawl take over the Promenade and South Moger Avenue, near the gazebo and the train station.
Here's how the Cookie Crawl worked last year. The Chamber handed out crawl maps at its table on the Promenade starting at noon. The Recorder described Chamber-member businesses signing up to offer individually wrapped cookies inside their stores. In 2024, the maps came from the Chamber tent, and the downtown activities on South Moger Avenue were free. The Recorder's preview of the 2025 festival listed a children's toy party, an obstacle course, a snow globe, firetruck rides, a holiday market and an evening light parade.
The holiday market is the part that connects back to East Main Street. The Chamber's 2025 listing named nine outdoor-market vendors:
- Mujeres Emprendedoras
- Decota Naturals
- Casa Cherry Wood Carvings
- Ruffingdales
- Two Souls Handcrafted Jewelry
- Plastics Made Pretty
- Elana Levy Pottery
- Hippie Feet Tie Dyes
- Valendra Crafted Peruvian Souls
These are the small makers who sell at tables and tents. Pizza Girls did the same thing for years before 38 E. Main St. The Chamber's 2026 listing for Dec. 12 still says more details are coming, so check its calendar closer to the date for this year's vendors and crawl stops.
The Chamber is also running a Shop Small Saturday listing from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 under a Shop Local, Shop Kisco message. It's a season-long nudge to shop local, not a single event.
A December Evening on One Street
With these two dates, you can plan the season around a short walk. On Dec. 4, go to the tree lighting on the Village Green, then walk down East Main to 38 for a wood-fired pie. Without phone orders, it's easier to just walk in. On Dec. 12, pick up a crawl map on the Promenade, work through the South Moger shops, and end at 27 E. Main St. for something warm in a pink cup.
Every stop on that loop is a business that got its start, or came back, on these streets. A table at HolidayFest is how a local business introduces itself to Mount Kisco, and an East Main Street lease is what that can grow into.
If following Mount Kisco's new openings has you thinking about a move to, from or within the village, I'd love to compare notes on the blocks you like best. I'm Sami Vecchiolla, and I'm always happy to talk about the places that make a town feel like home. Let's Connect.
