Liguria Bakery (1700 Stockton Street) has been operating for over 100 years on the northeast corner of San Francisco’s Washington Square Park. Is it a bakery? Well, technically. A pizza place? Not quite. But what is pizza anyway? Loosely define ...
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Feed SubscriptionArinell Pizza: NYC Quality Slices In San Fran
There’s a slice join in San Francisco’s Mission District that has lines out the door every evening. It’s on a strip where bars outnumber any other establishment…. which begs the question: Good sober pizza or just good drunk pizza? To ...
Read More »Deep Dish Vs. Thin Crust At Little Star In SF
When a pizza place has its menu sectioned off between deep dish pies and thin crust pies its usually a warning sign. In fact, deep dish pies on any pizza menu should be alarming. Other than perhaps one or two ...
Read More »One Pie At A Time At Berkeley’s Cheese Board
One of the more talked about pizza places in the Bay Area is called Cheese Board Pizza (1512 Shattuck Ave) in Berkeley. What’s so special about this place? Well, for starters — they only make one pie a day. When ...
Read More »Ribalta: A Three Oven Affair
Ribalta (48 East 12th Street) is a new pizzeria that opened this spring in the former Piola space — a few blocks from Union Square. The concept is similar to 900 Degrees — which shuttered after only six months last ...
Read More »Trattoria Lungofiume: Tasty Pies In Tokyo (When You’d Least Expect It)
The third and final pizza place I visited on my spring break trip to Japan was located in the same neighborhood (Nakameguro) as both Seirinkan and Trattoria Pizzeria Il Lupone. Yet it wasn’t somewhere on my list of places to ...
Read More »Ramp Alert: Truck Pizza In Hudson, NY
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ESTABLISHMENT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED Last week, some friends and I headed upstate to Hudson, NY for the 2012 Hudson Ramp Festival. For those who aren’t familiar with ramps — they’re an early spring wild onion/scallion/leek-like vegetable ...
Read More »Trattoria Pizzeria Il Lupone: Tokyo’s Best Pie
During a week-long spring break trip to Japan, I wasn’t quite sure how many pizza places I would be able to hit. The final day of my trip had arrived, and I’d only been able to make it to one ...
Read More »Seirinkan: Simple Pies At Tokyo’s Funkiest Pizza Place
When I told friends I’d be spending my spring break in Japan, one of the most common questions was whether or not I was going to try any pizza there (answer: of course). I was only going to be there ...
Read More »Osteria: Pies Shine At Popular Philly Italian Restaurant
I’ve had quite the range of experiences when it comes to pizza in Philadelphia. I loved Stephen Starr’s Pizzeria Stella back in 2010 but was disappointed with the classic pies at Tacconelli’s last year. One place that had been on ...
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