Food Adventuring Around NYC
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. You would have thought a neighborhood like Red Hook would have a cozy, industrial-feeling wood-fired pizza place. Maybe even one that was loved by locals and then soon over-run with foodies. That is certainly what happened with Hometown Barbecue, which I still claim is the …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. One pizza area I never explored in NYC were those dollar slice joints. They really gained in popularity after my official pizza journey cooled. I was eating at DiFara and Lombardi’s well before anyone was hawking slices for 99 cents. And amazingly, I have still …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. Amazingly, I may have visited Zero Otto Nove in the Bronx more than any other pizzeria in the city. That would be strange indeed considering I live nowhere near the Bronx and on many of the visits, I ordered pasta. However most New Yorkers who …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. I feel very out of touch with the food world whenever I go to Bushwick. The hip ever-changing neighborhood is a little further from where I usually hang out and It seems the neighborhood’s food scene is developing without the rest of the city fully …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. When New Yorkers talk about Italian food and the Bronx, they generally refer to Arthur Avenue, which is considered Little Italy. It’s in the Belmont neighborhood and is pretty spectacular. I’m lucky enough to lead tours up there. If you want to join me one …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City This is a little embarrassing, but when I was a kid, my favorite place to get pizza was from Papa John’s. I didn’t grow up in New York, so didn’t have quite the options or sophisticated …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. I had practically surrendered to the fact that I would probably never get to try New Park Pizza. My days of traveling to the ends of the five boroughs to sample pizza have dwindled since the early days of this blog. But I knew New …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t indulged in many typical NY slices in the last few years or if now that I’ve dabbled again, I’ve lucked out. But I have had two excellent slices in a row at cheap unassuming spots. Granted both …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. Ask any New Yorker for a favorite place to eat and odds are it won’t be anywhere near Penn Station. That’s why I’ve always been a bit unsure of NY Pizza Suprema. It’s steps from the total nightmare that is the hub of commuter trains in …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2018… Steps from Penn Station, is a great example of that classic 80’s/90’s era cheap gas oven slice of pizza. The crust at NY Pizza Suprema is thin as expected and surprisingly very crisp. Cheese is the main focus here and it’s plentiful and fresh with …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2018… My pizza reviews this year have dwindled. But not for lack of trying. I’ve eaten lots of great pizza, but my life (namely my very active two year old son) has made writing about them difficult. I wish I was able to put together …
SADLY, CORNER SLICE IS NOW CLOSED. When Ivan Orkin opened up his now infamous ramen shop in Tokyo, I imagine the Japanese customers were a bit skeptical, Here was a white Jewish kid from Brooklyn taking on their traditional noodle dishes. But it was hit. And when Orkin opened up Ivan Ramen here in New York, …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. SADLY, MASSONI IS NOW CLOSED. It was one of my vegetarian days (Mondays and Thursdays for those keeping count) and I was intensely craving mushrooms. If there was a place I could think of that just served well-sauteed wild mushrooms, I would have ordered two portions. …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. I have to admit I wasn’t very fair to Full Moon. I wrote it off before I even went inside. Let me explain: it resembles most fast cheap slice joints around the city with a counter, giant slices of cheese-covered pizzas sitting around, and the usual …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. SADLY, SORBILLO PIZZERIA IS NOW CLOSED. If you asked me about the most traditional (and delicious) Neapolitan-style pizza in New York, I would have sent you to the businesses run by Roberto Caporuscio and his family, like Kesté or Don Antonio. Sure, Roberta’s and Motorino are …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. Like so many places out there in the wilds of New York, I should have visited this place a long time ago. Sottocasa is one of those neighborhood spots that has quietly been praised and packed by locals and has even expanded to Harlem. But the …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. Of all the pizza options along Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, Mario’s might be the most interesting. And not just because it was featured in the book The Godfather. When you step inside the restaurant you are immediately transported to another time and another place. And …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. SADLY, CAFE AL MERCATO IS NOW CLOSED. One of the newest tours I give is a food tour up on Arthur Avenue, which any New Yorker will tell you is the real Little Italy. The Bronx neighborhood is densely populated with traditional Italian bakeries, cheese …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2017… Pasquale Jones is certainly not the first business to put clams on a pizza, but they have done justice to the tradition started at places like Lombardi’s and New Haven’s Frank Pepe. The hipster chefs here run an expert wood-fired oven crisping the sides …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. The students at Fordham University in the Bronx are luckier than most college kids. Not only are they steps away from the most densely populated authentic Italian food mecca in NYC (Arthur Avenue), but they also get to have Pugsley as their local pizza joint. …