UrbanDaddy reports that Co. is now open for lunch! Lunching Co. Pizzeria Opens for Lunch The newly famous pizza spot adds lunch to their repertoire, including their béchamel-enhanced flambé pizza. Unfortunately, delivery is still just a dream. 411: 12:00-3pm, Tuesdays ...
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Feed SubscriptionDom DeMarco Named to Pizza Hall of Fame. Sweet!!
Di Fara’s owner and pie godfather, Dom DeMarco, will be inducted into the Pizza Hall of Fame tomorrow. He will be introduced by a representative of the next generation of Brooklyn pizza chefs, Nino Coniglio, who recently opened Pizzeria Del ...
Read More »Spunto Opening In West Village
As the newest addition to the proliferating pizza chainlet that includes Gruppo, Posto, and Vezzo, Spunto shares all the requisite DNA: gold-leaf window signage, a name that ends in “o,” and a menu of ultra-thin-crust pizzas. The West Village outpost ...
Read More »Wall Street Journal Documents The Decline Of Pizza
The Wall Street Journal printed an in depth article about the pizza industry yesterday. Read it here. Conditions late last year were “the worst I’d seen” since entering the business 32 years ago, says John Schnatter, founder and interim chief ...
Read More »Are Manhattan Pizza Prices Dropping?
New York Magazine says so! Maffei Pizza in Chelsea is the latest to reduce the price of its slice (from $2.50 to $2). Brian Lehrer interviews owner Dominick Maffei, along with an economist, and discovers it’s because cheese costs have ...
Read More »Sbarro May Not Make It Through The Year
Eater reports that Sbarro may not make it through 2009. Sweet! Sbarro. (Privately owned; about 5,500 employees). It’s not the pizza that’s the problem. Many of this chain’s 1,100 storefronts are in malls, which is a double whammy: Traffic is ...
Read More »E.U. has closed; Pizzeria Moving In…
… according to the outgoing voice mail message: Ciao, and thank you for calling the former E.U. We are currently changing the E.U into a contemporary Italian-style pizzeria called Tonda. Tonda will be open in approximately six weeks and we ...
Read More »Co Vs. Motorino – GQ Magazine Reports
GQ’s Alan Richman writes: To Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who speaks often of worsening economic conditions and widening deficits, I offer an elegant solution to the woes of New York City: Open more pizzerias. I agree! Read “A Pizza Advice” which ...
Read More »Nizza Goes Gluten Free
Midtown Pizzeria/Italian restaurant Nizza will begin serving some gluten free fare. Read about it here.
Read More »Di Fara has been closed for the past two weeks!
A sign on the door reads: Dominic is currently recovering from broken kneecap surgery which occurred during a slight car accident on icy roads on Monday, January 19. He is doing well. Our expected date of reopening we are estimating ...
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