Stunned residents have been getting a pizza the action.
Intrigued onlookers watched as a 1.5-tonne wood fire oven had to be lowered into its new home in Manningtree.
Traffic slowed as a tractor crane was needed to manoeuvre the oven through the doorway at the Lucca Italian restaurant in the High Street.
Sherri Singleton, restaurant owner, said: "We ordered the oven from the United States and it arrived at the front of the restaurant on Monday morning.
"We were there all day. A tractor and a crane had to come into the High Street to help move it.
"A specially-made cage was made for the oven so it could be turned upside down.
"We then had to slowly tip the oven onto its side so it wouldn't get damaged," she said.
After the restaurant's doors were removed the oven was gradually lowered onto a cart before being wheeled into the premises.
The restaurant opens at the end of September.
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