I have been to Co. or Company three times now. And what’s so funny about that is, I don’t love it. There are so many restaurants in the city for me to try, so why do I repeat one of the more mediocre ones? It’s all part of the job, my friend. I first ventured [...]

For all intents and purposes, my pizza journey is over. Of course I couldn’t make it to every single pizzeria in the city and spots continue to open up every week. But I made my peace (piece?) with the pizza search and even wrote up a conclusion. Well, thanks to Jason Feirman and his Pizza [...]

I was invited once again by Jason Feirman (I Dream of Pizza) to Pizza Club. I first joined the group a few months back at the classic coal oven joint Arturo’s. This month, we headed down Houston Street a bit to the other side of the pizza spectrum to sample the newly opened (but very [...]

Saraghina is one of those well-respected new pizza restaurants that I just didn’t get to during my intense pizza search.  So I’m very thankful that it happened to find its way onto TONY’s list.  Partly because it helped make my pizza search more comprehensive, but also because it was quite delicious. Michele Iuliano, the chef [...]

What to do on a Sunday afternoon?  I’m tired of going to the movies, I’m never up early enough for brunch, and there’s only so long I can sit at home and write blog entries. So last weekend, I ventured into Williamsburg for a different sort of Sunday afternoon. Instead of doing any of the [...]

When I posted the first episode of my web series, I reached out to some NY pizza bloggers (whose blogs I had been using for research and insight) to introduce myself and present my video.  The response was pretty overwhelming and I was quickly welcomed into the community.  So much so that I was invited [...]

Okay, seriously, if you call yourself “Perfect Pizza” then your slice better blow my f***ing socks off.  I want to walk out of that pizzeria completely sockless. Well, needless to say, my feet were fully covered when I walked out of Patzeria Perfect Pizza.  And it’s a good thing too, since it was freezing outside. [...]

Long before Kesté opened to great reviews and pizza fanfare, there was a modest little pizza joint down the street that specialized in wood oven pizzas.  Their sign reads “The Original Brick Oven” referring to the wood ovens that were used before Genaro Lombardi was forced into cooking his pizzas with coals.  And they were [...]

I wonder how the people of Naples ate their tomato flatbreads in the 1700′s. I mean, if they wanted it for dinner, did they just eat them in the dark?  Not knowing which topping they ended up with?  Or did they eat them by candlelight huddled around an old table? Well, I don’t think Mark [...]

Now I want to say up front that this doesn’t even come close to being a complete critical analysis of Brooklyn’s slice joints. There have got to be hundreds of them and I bet at least half those are worthy of a special trek.  But there were two places that had been coming up quite [...]