Wow.... what happened to prompt that? I would have met you there if I had known earlier.
Besides the Sicilian pizza you should try the spumoni. The food in their restaurant is decent, and the portions are nicely sized but it's not anything to write home about.
No toppings. I wouldn't buy the round pizza (it's VERY ordinary) and the square certainly doesn't need any.
It's gonna be a nice day so be prepared to put up with a crowd (but it's worth it). Grab an outdoor table when you get there, and have someone order the square pizza at the window to the far left (as you look at the place). You shouldn't have to wait more than a few minutes. IF you eat inside (waiter service and a complete lunch/dinner menu) you can still order square pizza and enjoy it a little more leisurely.
So??? What is the verdict? How'd ya like the pizza?
Well, as I told my brother, it's "good".
Listen, I just love pizza, no matter what style it is. Even that crap I had in Chicago
I was raised on, and still prefer, good ol' "New York-Style" pizza w/ more cheese than sauce. This is the opposite of that, but still pretty good. It wasn't too bready like some Sicilian style pizzas can get. The sauce was quite sweet, though; perhaps a tad too sweet for me. Probably the San Marzano tomatoes. The crust was really good, though. (Unlike some people, I actually enjoy the crust, crispier the better!)
But I got over the sauce issue after discovering the cheese was under the sauce. Just not enough cheese and a tad too much sauce.
The place is great, though. And the spumoni was doubly GREAT! The only other thing we tried was the calamari. Eh. I prefer Carrabba's. And I'm quite picky when it comes to that! It was still par or better, though.
Now I gotta try Lombardi's and see...
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And the spumoni that started the entire 70+ year business...
The place is popular, though! If you can find a parking spot like these fine folks...
Heading out I could swear I was in the middle of a movie set on 86th St
Afterwards it was back to Don Cardi's stomping grounds (where I felt safe) and visited a real Pastosa shop!
Pastosa makes tremendous stuffed pastas, and where I am they come frozen from Brooklyn. These fresh ones are even better, despite coming from Staten Island.
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol
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When you can, read an article in the July edition of Popular Science. It's about a guy that has invented a pizzeria on wheels. He converted a shipping container to house his oven, etc. and mounted it on a bobtail truck frame. He had to invent a suspension system though to protect his pizza oven from stress fractures. And he's not even Italiano!
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#654526 07/05/1207:31 AM07/05/1207:31 AM
In a list otherwise dominated by East Coast and Chicago, Detroit pizza makes the cut as one of ten classic styles.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
And I'm not 100% sure what show it was... but this saddened me....
A local (unique) diner will NOT appear on the Travel Channel because after the impressive workjob they did, they then told them it'd cost them $1200 (or whatever, close to that) to appear. "Shut Up and Eat" reluctantly and disappointedly declined with, "you know I just sell eggs, right?"
While I so understand the exposure these places get -- obviously! But I never expected they had to pay for it...
Makes you wonder if they actually air the best places... or apparently just the ones willing to pay for the exposure...
FAIL!
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol
Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy?--Peter Griffin
I like the list (because Chicago is listed as #1) but do any of the cities listed besides Chicago, NYC, Philly, Providence, and Boston actually have good pizza? I can't see Dallas, Nashville, or Orlando having good pizza places.
A short distance away on Neptune Avenue and 15th Street is Totonno's, an ages old pizza joint that has the best brick oven pizza I've ever eaten. [/quote]
You can have decent pete sa in a lot of places but this Joint You mention ( Totonno's) was always above all. Had it many times when I lived in Brooklyn and we used to go down the block and buy Jeans. I do not remember the name of the store but the best jeans, at best prices and every brand,,, cheap. Stacked up on wooded tables every day like they fell off a truck or something.
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Re: Pizza Hunter
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#708722 04/06/1308:14 AM04/06/1308:14 AM
I wonder how much overarm hair one consumes a year eating pizza? It's gross to me how they flip and throw the pizza dough up in the air and it lands on an overarm covered in thick hair.
I wonder how much overarm hair one consumes a year eating pizza? It's gross to me how they flip and throw the pizza dough up in the air and it lands on an overarm covered in thick hair.
Good lord, you are going to ruin it for all of us!
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