On Wednesday evening, the leading story on Nightline was a seven minute segment titled: It’s On!: Pizza Wars. You’d think Nightline’s time and money might be better spent covering real wars and it didn’t help that there were no new ...
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Feed SubscriptionOliO Pizza e Più Announces Late Night Hours
OliO Pizza e Più — which set up shop in the West Village earlier this year — is now open until 4AM every night of the week. The pizzeria’s Margherita pie and Diavolo pie (with salami) will be priced at ...
Read More »Meet Jim Lahey This Weekend
This Saturday, Jim Lahey, master of the no-knead bread, will be speaking at Broadway Panhandler (65 East 8th Street). At the event, he will demonstrate his basic recipes for both bread and pizza. You can find more information here.
Read More »Celebrities Take Over Greenwich Village Famiglia Location!
Earlier this week, some celebrities took over the Famiglia on Broadway and 8th Street for the day. Crowds swarmed the area and a line to get inside wrapped around the block. Among the familiar faces behind the counter: Lil ...
Read More »New York Magazine: The Roberta’s Timeline
This success of Roberta’s has been well chronicled in the press, but nobody has done a better job a providing a chronological history of how it all came together than New York Magazine. Last week’s Who Runs New York? issue ...
Read More »Papa John’s Opening In… East Village??
As if there weren’t enough pizza places opening in the East Village… along comes a shop which we could really use: Papa John’s! Not. Whatever research they did to determine that the East Village was a good place to open ...
Read More »Pizza Sandwich At Keste
The folks at AlwaysHungryNY recently stopped by Keste to try out their new pizza sandwich. Although it appears the dish was enjoyable, the site points out that it’s not exactly pizza. Rather it is a “pizza round cooked without sauce ...
Read More »Paulie Gee’s Now Seriving Beer & Wine
Last week Paulie Gee’s got its license for beer and wine. When I stopped by on Sunday evening, the place was hopping. Here’s what you can get this week: I didn’t have anything, and I must say — the prices ...
Read More »RIP: Druken Pizza Place
According to EV Grieve, Pizzanini has closed. Although New Yorkers might not recognize the pizza place by its name, nearly everyone who has ever been drinking in the East Village has stopped by this spot on the corner of 2nd ...
Read More »New York Times Features Three New Pizza Places
Today, The New York Times dining section previewed three new pizza places: Paulie Gee’s which opened in March, Totale Pizza which opened in June, and Olio Pizza e Piu which opened a couple of weeks ago. Of the three, I’ve ...
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