Right now, a couple of trends are dominating the New York pizza scene. The proliferation of upscale artisinal pizza places has been well documented. And old school pizza places like Lombardi’s, Totonno, and Di Fara have also gained new found ...
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Feed SubscriptionDa Franco: Bringing Quality Pizza To Queens
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ESTABLISHMENT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED Astoria is known for many things. It’s Greek food. The Bohemian beer garden. Kaufman Studios. But one thing that doesn’t come to mind when you hear the name of one of Queen’s ...
Read More »Toby’s Public House: Quiet, Quaint & Quite Tasty
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ESTABLISHMENT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED Greenwood Heights. Believe or not, that’s a neighborhood in Brooklyn. I’m pretty proficient in New York City geography, but even I was unfamiliar with this pocket of land nestled between Park Slope, ...
Read More »Tito Bravo: Best Place To Grab A Slice In Jerusalem – CLOSED
Last week, I reviewed two of my favorite pizza places in Israel: The Pizza in Tel Aviv and Yeminite Food Bar in Safed. While The Pizza is an upscale artisinal pizza place that churns out pies similar to what you ...
Read More »Yeminite Food Bar In Safed, Israel: What Is Pizza Anyway?
Last week I began a recap of pizza in Israel. One of my favorite meals of the trip was at Yeminite Food Bar — a modest food stand in Safed (often spelled Tzfat). It couldn’t be more different than the ...
Read More »The Pizza (HaPizza) In Tel Aviv: Fresh & Tasty
I recently returned from Israel where I had the pleasure (or sometimes displeasure) of trying six different pizza places. Some people refer to Israel as the land of milk and honey. Others refer to it as the land of falafel ...
Read More »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 »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 »Buenos Aires Pizza Tour — Las Cuartetas: Nothing Special
The final stop on my Buenos Aires pizza tour was Las Cuartetas (Corrientes 838). Located right across the street from El Palacio De La Pizza, I hopped over right after finishing my slices there, since I didn’t think it made ...
Read More »Buenos Aires Pizza Tour — El Palacio De La Pizza: A Pleasant Surprise
Stop three on my Buenos Aires pizza tour was El Palacio De La Pizza (Corrientes 751). As you might have guessed, that aptly translates as The Palace Of The Pizza. If I were ever to live in a palace it ...
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