Amore Pizzeria, Whitestone, Queens
Amore is a well-regarded Queens slice joint located in a strip mall in Whitestone. Every time I’ve been, it’s been busy, which means your slice is always fresh.
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Gaby’s Pizza: a mainstay of Hollis, Queens
Gaby’s is a true neighborhood institution, with photos of local luminaries (Run-DMC!) lining the walls and a steady stream of customers ordering slices to stay and picking up pies to go.
Gloria Pizza and the next generation
It’s humbling to watch a child grow and realize in a visceral way that you and your generation are getting old and becoming increasingly irrelevant. I think of this as Margot develops her own tastes and opinions, here as it relates to pizza.
Weekly Pizza Lunch: Rose & Joe’s Italian Bakery
I’ve probably eaten slices from Rose & Joe’s more than from anywhere else, and I can say from considerable experience that an edge (but not a corner), on a plate, no reheat is the way to go. It loses something in the reheat, and in fact is best somewhere between warm and not-straight-out-of-the-oven hot. I … Read more
#weeklypizzalunch: The Nonna at Tufino in Astoria
Tufino is one of the few places in NYC making naturally leavened wood-fired pizza. I love Tufino, but I’m also a bit jealous. For years I’ve been saying that Astoria could use a good wood-oven joint. I’d even secretly thought of opening one myself. But, well, look what happens when you don’t act on your … Read more