This post originally appeared in July 2009 on SliceNY.com when it was part of Serious Eats. It was scrubbed from SE in 2021. I’ve salvaged what I could of this post from the Wayback Machine and present it here.
The Brooklyn Firefly serves great pizza in a space that was once home to legendary Brooklyn pizzeria Lento’s. It’s a different pizza and different scene, but it’s a worthy successor.
Roll-N-Roaster isn’t pizza but nonetheless looms large as an influence on me—and any eventual Margot’s Pizza.
Laveglia takes one of his fantastic slices, which need little embellishment as they are, and plops a nice dollop of the creamy cheese cold on top. You can’t not.
I usually hate when publications peg their content to things that happen every year at a given time (Memorial Day grilling articles are the worst), but I was thinking about a couple recent trips to L&B Spumoni Gardens and what a magical place it is at dusk on a not-too-hot summer night. So, voilà, SUMMER JAMS, PIZZA EDITION!
In which yours truly visits Di Fara after many months, if not years, and discovers they are doing a handful of things differently—including an efficient system for ordering.
If you’re one of the 60 or so people a day to get your hands on a Massimo Laveglia pizza, count yourself lucky. Over the last two years the Florence native has been steadily building a reputation for stellar pies and slices at L’Industrie, his tiny shop on South 2nd & Havermeyer in #Williamsburg. Don’t … Read more
I’ve never seen it, but I’ve heard that second-generation owner Gio Lonzo has devoted the entire next-door storefront to a series of refrigerators all set to different temperatures, which house the dough at different stages of its fermentation.