Entries Categorized as 'NY PIZZA TOUR'

Super Bowl Feast + Underdog Lounge Wings + Giants Win = Happy NYC Food Guy

Date February 5, 2008

Big Effin Blue. The Giants have done the impossible. Three straight playoff road wins and a NFL record 11 straight road wins overall. It was a total team effort, strong and determined, similar to the display put on by the NYC Food Guy and friends as they feasted, at work, during the game.
Amazing wings, greasy [...]

John’s of Bleecker Street: Best pie in the West Village but not all of NYC

Date January 23, 2008

“In 1905, Gennaro Lombardi applied to the New York City government for the first license to make and sell pizza in this country, at his grocery store on Spring Street in what was then a thriving Italian-American neighborhood.”
That information, courtesy of Ed Levine, is the reason you’re looking at the beautiful pie below. [...]

UWS Pizza: Celeste’s and Dean’s Pies are a notch above

Date January 2, 2008

While the search for the best pie on the Upper West Side continues, Celeste and Dean’s provide quality and affordable options a notch above most of the neighborhood slice joints.
Celeste’s Wood-Fired Margherita ($11.00, Cash only) covered with fresh, fragrant basil:

Dean’s Old Fashioned Sicilian aka Grandma ($16.00) and a slice from their Large Old School Round [...]

Bleecker Street Pizza: Nonna Maria Making a case for NY’s Best Specialty Slice

Date December 5, 2007

“The Best Specialty Slice in New York”, quite a claim I realize, but the Nonna Maria at Bleecker St. Pizza, with a bed of grated Grande Mozzarella supporting slices of Fresh Mozzarella and large dollops of garlicky, tomatoey Marinara sauce, all sprinkled with top-of-the-line Parmigiano-Reggiano, is a recipe for pizza perfection. That is [...]

Maffei’s Grandma Slice: An interesting departure from the norm

Date November 16, 2007

Ed Levine called Maffei Pizza’s Grandma Slice the best in Manhattan. I can’t back that up but I can say it was unlike any Grandma I’ve ever had before.

2 slices ($4.50)