5 Borough Pizza Put Down Part 2: The Meanest Pie In Town

 Posted by at 2:01 pm  Brooklyn In Pizzas, Coney Island, Food & Drink, Not Brooklyn
Apr 122011
 
What Totonno’s lacks in basil (and kindness) they make up for in pure pizza goodness
Patsy’s service proved pleasing; their pie peculiarly premature

This is it. The culmination of countless afternoons spent devouring the best pizza we could find. This is the 5 Borough Pizza Put Down. In our never-ending quest to find the perfect pizza pie parlor, we’ll award points based on 5 categories: food, service, atmosphere, cost and value. In the short term we will be grouping pizza places together: either by geography, shared history or both, and comparing. In the long term, we will use the points system to decide on an overall city-wide winner. (I’ve decided that, in order to simplify any comparisons, I will only order the plain, or margherita pie at each pizzeria.)

Following up on last week’s Brooklyn versus Manhattan theme, we once again have a battle of the boroughs. This week we matched up Patsy’s Pizzeria in Murray Hill with Totonno’s Pizzeria Napolitano in Coney Island.

5 Borough Pizza Put Down Part 1: Conspicuous But Deadly

 Posted by at 12:36 pm  Brooklyn In Pizzas, Food & Drink, Not Brooklyn
Apr 042011
 
John’s pie is impressive…
…but so is Grimaldi’s

This is it. The culmination of countless afternoons spent devouring the best pizza we could find. This is the 5 Borough Pizza Put Down. In our never-ending quest to find the perfect pizza pie parlor, we’ll award points based on 5 categories: food, service, atmosphere, cost and value. In the short term we will be grouping pizza places together: either by geography, shared history or both, and comparing. In the long term, we will use the points system to decide on an overall city-wide winner. (I’ve decided that, in order to simplify any comparisons, I will only order the plain, or margherita pie at each pizzeria.)

For the first part in this series we’ll tackle what are probably the most obvious choices. Along with Totonno’s in Coney Island and Patsy’s in Murray Hill, both are linked directly, indirectly or mythologically to New York’s first licensed pizza maker, Genaro Lombardi. Straight out of the guide books we have from Manhattan, John’s Pizzeria of Bleecker Street and from Brooklyn, Grimaldi’s Coal Brick-Oven Pizzeria. Continue reading at Wandering NYC
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Brooklyn’s best pizza?

 Posted by at 10:10 am  Brooklyn In Pizzas
Jul 212010
 

According to 10best.com Brooklyn’s best pizza is Di Fara (1424 Avenue J, Brooklyn). The Village Voice (from 2009) has Totonno Pizzeria Napolitano (1524 Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn,) followed by DiFara and continue with 3. Grimaldi’s (19 Old Fulton Street, Brooklyn) 4. Roberta’s (261 Moore Street, Brooklyn) 5. Motorino (319 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn) 6. LaVilla (261 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn) 7. Luigi’s (686 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn) 8. Krispy Pizzeria (7112 13th Ave., Brooklyn). Never go topless unless its anchovies.  So who do you think has Brooklyn’s best pizza?

Brooklyn In Pizzas: How To Order A Square From DaVinci’s

 Posted by at 9:00 am  Bensonhurst, Brooklyn In Pizzas
Apr 062010
 

A square from DaVinci’s. All photos: Brian Hedden

When they’re fresh out of the oven, the squares from DaVinci’s Pizzeria on 18th Avenue are a must-have. But it has recently been brought to my attention that not everyone knows how to order one of these. So I have prepared this handy, step-by-step guide.

1. Ask for a square.

2. Better yet, ask for two.

DON’T ask for a Sicilian slice. Don’t ask for a slice of anything. If you ask for a slice, you are asking for this:

DaVinci’s slices are also very good, but Sicilian pizza doesn’t come in slices. It comes in squares. A Sicilian slice is what English teachers refer to as an oxymoron, like working vacation or Central Intelligence. It just doesn’t make any sense.

Important tip for parties: slices come from round pies. Squares come from square pies.

Two pi aren’t always square, but they could be. Just ask.