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A new pizzeria from entertainment multihyphenate Issa Rae and her business partners is set to debut this weekend, bringing funk-inspired pizza to their popular cafe. By day, the downtown space will continue as Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen. At night, starting May 3, it flips to Downtown Dough, a pizza joint that specializes in a kind of California-meets-Neapolitan style, the crust leopard-spotted from a wood-fired brick oven.

“The daytime is really for the drip, and the nighttime is for the dough,” said co-owner Ajay Relan.

Relan and business partner Yonnie Hagos launched Hilltop via their hospitality group, GVO, and quickly partnered with the “Insecure” actor and producer, whose mission of creating inclusive spaces aligned with theirs. In the years since, the trio launched another four Hilltop locations, downtown rooftop bar Lost and a sleek restaurant, bar and jazz club called Somerville.

“We could not think of a better partner and ambassador for our mission,” said Relan, who added that Rae is “very involved” in the restaurants’ operations and menu planning.

At Downtown Dough, the menu calls for almond wood sourced from Northern California, which is used at the wood-fired grill — for dishes such as chicken, branzino and steak — as well as in the pizza oven. Chef Geter Atienza (previously of Broken Spanish, Bouchon Bistro, the Fig) brushes his crust with garlic oil and sprinkles it with Parmesan and tops the pizzas with pepperoni, local honey and Fresno chiles; truffled fondue and farmers market cauliflower; bacon, Manila clams and caramelized onions; and more. There are pastas, Black Angus meatballs, salads and crispy calamari.