You know how I feel about “Best Of” pizza lists, don’t you? Oh, well I don’t really like them. But I must say that any list which has Di Fara on it has to be at least some what legitimate. ...
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L’asso: Too Cool For School?
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ESTABLISHMENT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED The first word that comes to mind when I think about L’asso (192 Mott Street) is cool. It’s not a particularly descriptive adjective, but if every pizza place in the city was ...
Read More »Merry Christmas!
I haven’t been by Nino’s (131 St. Marks Place at Avenue A) this winter, but I hope their Christmas decorations are living up to the great window art they had last year. Even in a recession, Santa always has his ...
Read More »Customers Complain About Di Fara’s Burnt Slices
Di Fara — as I mention nearly every week — is my favorite pizza place. Yet the blogs have been buzzing lately about its demise (see: The DiFara Slice Contention) arguing that Dom DeMarco has lost his touch, sometimes burning ...
Read More »Giuseppi’s Pizza: Maryland’s Finest
I grew up in Potomac, Maryland — a fairly large suburb of Washington, DC. But a suburb with limited options for pizza. Typically, if we were going out to eat it’d be at Jerry’s Subs & Pizza. And if we ...
Read More »New Midtown Pizzeria Has "Freakin Tasty" Artichoke Slices
Good pizza places in Midtown are few and far between. Midtown Lunch — the official source for anything edible near your office — posts that the new newly opened Previti Pizza (41st between Park and Lexington) “freakin tasty.” Of note: ...
Read More »Jude Law & Sienna Miller Share "A Pizza"
In celebrity pizza gossip news (oh yes, there’s a lot of that!) People Magazine reports that Jude Law and Sienna Miller had a post Thanksgiving meal at Emporio Restaurant during which they shared “a pizza.” Now you might be wondering ...
Read More »Di Fara: Still Has It (Duh)
There’s been a few articles floating around the blogosphere recently about the demise of Di Fara (see: The DiFara Slice Contention). Well I popped in the other week just to make sure all was well. And as I’d presumed, their ...
Read More »Happy Hanukkah (Pizza!!)
Last night, Paulie Gee tweeted a photo of a delicious looking Hanukkah pizza he created. Maybe it’ll be the signature pie at his new pizzeria in Greenpoint which will be opening soon! Paulie writes that “the menorah is made out ...
Read More »L’asso Celebrates Twitter Milestone
Last week, Manhattan pizza joint L’asso got their 300th Twitter follower — not a particularly big milestone in my mind, but hey… it’s a nice number of followers. I’m just not so sure it warranted the tweet: 300 twitterers agree ...
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