Well, forgive me, Ivan. I don't want to sound like a food snob. But Buffalo ain't exactly the pizza capital of the USA. Doesn't their success have a little bit to do with that?
Probably. They sell their wings nationwide, but not the pizzas.
I seriously doubt that it's even the best pizzeria in the Buffalo area, which has a substantial Italian-American population. If La Nova is the "best" there than they're setting the bar a bit low. It's better than Papa John's and shit like that, but it's noticeably inferior to the best independent pizzerias anywhere. I've had better even in Columbus, a town has about as many Italians as the moon.
And I have little doubt that being the nerve center of a mafia family was helpful back when that family was powerful (which it was up through the late 90s or so).
Originally Posted By: TommyGambino
Is there a large Italian presence in Buffalo?
Yeah there's a lot of them, but I think they are all out in the suburbs now, with very few remaining in the core city (can't say I blame them).