Steve Grillo has transformed himself from Howard Stern’s onetime sidekick to pizza poo bah, opening Hell’s Kitchen Pizza at 47th Street and Tenth Avenue with partner Russ Brunelli. Their “Hellfire” pie fea tures sausage, cherry peppers and pepperoni. Grillo said ...
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Feed SubscriptionTonda Opens In East Village
Tonda opened in the East Village earlier this week and although we haven’t made it there yet, early reviews look promising. We hear the restaurant features a $30,000 slow-rotating 1,000-degree wood-burning pizza oven in the center of the space. If ...
Read More »A Hidden Bar Below An East Village Pizza Shop?
UrbanDaddy reports on “the secret bar below pizza shop.” So forgive us if we prefer to walk into a small East Village pizza shop, ignore anything covered in mozzarella and make our way to the secret basement bar below. Introducing ...
Read More »(Another) New Pizza Place In The West Village
Kesté Pizza & Vino (271 Bleecker Street) could open as early as next weekend in the West Village. Though you have to wait a week, there’s still plenty to get excited about: a gorgeous oven; an owner “so obsessed with ...
Read More »Mario Batali And Jimmy Fallon Check Out Pizza Joints
We could try to summarize this great nymag.com piece for you, but it’s so awesome you should just check it out yourselves. Mario Batali and Jimmy Fallon hit up Co, Spunto, Motorino and San Marzano last week. Motorino got the ...
Read More »Fire Shuts Totonno’s, Legendary Coney Island Pizzeria
In what’s already been a bad week for pizzeria damages [see Saturday’s posting], the legendary Totonno’s has been closed due to a fire. I’ve yet to make it there and was planning on doing a Pizza Club out on Coney ...
Read More »Co. Now Open For Brunch
Co. is now open for brunch! It’s never to early in the day to have some pizza!
Read More »Pizza Parlor Collapse In Harlem
Last week a concrete wall collapsed into a pizza parlor in Harlem. Our thoughts go out to everyone that was injured in the accident.
Read More »Birdbath Bakery Making Pizzas?
Grub Street reports that Birdbath bakery began using pretzel-croissant dough to make handheld pizzas with house-made tomato sauce and fresh mozzarella from Joe’s Dairy. Sounds tasty!
Read More »United States Pizza Team Puts On Show At The Javits Center
From The New York Daily News: Dough flew high and far at the Javits Center on Sunday as members of the United States Pizza Team demonstrated the extreme sport of pizza tossing. Expert pizza flingers twirled chunks of dough behind ...
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