Well Andrew... the fact that a 'Slice of Pizza' cost more than a Subway ticket @ $2.75 compared to an avg. price of a Slice in NYC @ $3.26, which is still a reasonable price, all things being equal... I've noticed after 60 years, NOT MUCH gets cheaper... Food is certainly not an exception... yet you could play the 'Game'.... Instead of raising the price, charge the same, yet give them a 'thinner' slice... perhaps 10 slices rather than 6 or 8 slices per Zza... Quality ingredients are important, they do ad to the taste, which is key... I say, leave the slice size alone... let's face it, for less than $3.50, you get a very reasonable lunch, dinner or for that matter, breakfast... Your choices for NYC pizza joints, is pretty spot on...!! My favorites are DiFara's, L&B Spumoni Gardens for their 'Sfincione' or Tomato Pie, which thanks to you, i was watching Bazaar Foods and ventured there for my first square of Tomato Pie.... Yummmmm... +Roberta’s & Motorino are very good too....
BTW: Your comment about 'The Cost of Pizza' & Subway prices, I must agree... "There is a war in Ukraine that has me scared for the world my son will inherit, a climate crisis that is truly existential that we aren’t doing enough about, a voting rights crisis that is under-reported despite all the daily news about it (add more Russian interference/hacking for 2022 to that mix as retribution for sanctions) and I am worried for the future of my country." ... And someone wants to write about subway prices and pizza slices??? WTF.... I couldn't agree more...!!! Always best regards Andrew, keep-up your phenomenal efforts to make the World round.... take care....
Best pizza we had in Boston was in little gas station in Wakefield, MA called Slice. Tiny place run by a former Hells Kitchen contestant but good consistent pizza.
So refreshing to read an honest man who loves food and the earth and all that is on it. Only wish I lived closer to NYC, but only for the food.
Incidentally, I wow my friends often with your cabbage schi recipe. Most have never had anything, except gin, seasoned with juniper berries. I bless your grandmother eveytime I make it.
Hysterical timing! Just had a heated talk about pizza with a friend…as in if you could only have 1 more slice…or you had to walk miles to get it…who’s it gonna be? If I’m sticking local, in town, I’m going to Armand’s. Living just minutes from pizza Mecca…my short list? Pequods! Vito & Nicks! And a lil more excited today to say Paisans, just found out they are opening minutes from my home. 🎉 There are a dozen more I’d be happy to go to, but I’m a thin bubbly burnt crust kind of gal, and they do it best. Our pizza game is pretty strong ‘round here…now I’m also thinking about Lou’s, or Salernos….oh my!
And yes, seems silly to talk pizza when we are fully cognizant of the atrocities both near & far. But life is about balance, do everything you can to help others, but don’t neglect yourself.
On the cost of foods we want. The price of wheat over the last ten years has increased substantially. Transportation costs have risen. Import costs risen or are harder to procure ( thankful for local and regional producers). Labor costs unfortunately have remained low. We want quality for what many would consider non essential or luxury. Would splurge on a stellar pizza...but can't eat dairy...tho some pizzas are made well w/o it...(good luck)... But envy so the milky comfort of a cheese pizza... just one less thing I have to think about emptying my wallet for.
People need to stop talking about DiFara is if it was 10 years ago. It hasn’t been good in a while and I’m afraid Don’s passing isn’t the reason. L&B has also become subpar of late. The baton has been handed over to guys like Scarr’s and Lindustrie, as we’ll as places like Bellucci’s (the new one) and Austin Street in Queens. I think Johns might be the last Manhattan place to get a NYC pizza. Don’t sleep on Ribalta and Song a Napule for Neapolitan as well.
Head about 70 miles north on I-95 to New Haven for some apizza! Nothing else comes close… Too many great spots to name them all, but Modern Apizza is a must.
When I lived in New York, I liked John's in the Village, but it became too touristy. Cornet near Columbia U. had dollar slices bigger than your head and were amazing when drunk. Now I'm stuck in the pizza desert of Buffalo, where the locals think their pizza is good but it isn't. Do you know of any coal fired pizza places in NYC?
I appreciate the fact that Andrew is an expert in the food industry. One of his implied goals is to bring unity within our divisive world. Food is a means to do that.
As he shares these clips, may we remember what our King shared: "... Man shall not live by bread alone ... and that in Me (Jesus) ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I (Jesus) have overcome the world. ... I (Jesus) am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I (Jesus) give is my flesh, which I give for the life of the world."
Well Andrew... the fact that a 'Slice of Pizza' cost more than a Subway ticket @ $2.75 compared to an avg. price of a Slice in NYC @ $3.26, which is still a reasonable price, all things being equal... I've noticed after 60 years, NOT MUCH gets cheaper... Food is certainly not an exception... yet you could play the 'Game'.... Instead of raising the price, charge the same, yet give them a 'thinner' slice... perhaps 10 slices rather than 6 or 8 slices per Zza... Quality ingredients are important, they do ad to the taste, which is key... I say, leave the slice size alone... let's face it, for less than $3.50, you get a very reasonable lunch, dinner or for that matter, breakfast... Your choices for NYC pizza joints, is pretty spot on...!! My favorites are DiFara's, L&B Spumoni Gardens for their 'Sfincione' or Tomato Pie, which thanks to you, i was watching Bazaar Foods and ventured there for my first square of Tomato Pie.... Yummmmm... +Roberta’s & Motorino are very good too....
BTW: Your comment about 'The Cost of Pizza' & Subway prices, I must agree... "There is a war in Ukraine that has me scared for the world my son will inherit, a climate crisis that is truly existential that we aren’t doing enough about, a voting rights crisis that is under-reported despite all the daily news about it (add more Russian interference/hacking for 2022 to that mix as retribution for sanctions) and I am worried for the future of my country." ... And someone wants to write about subway prices and pizza slices??? WTF.... I couldn't agree more...!!! Always best regards Andrew, keep-up your phenomenal efforts to make the World round.... take care....
Best pizza we had in Boston was in little gas station in Wakefield, MA called Slice. Tiny place run by a former Hells Kitchen contestant but good consistent pizza.
So refreshing to read an honest man who loves food and the earth and all that is on it. Only wish I lived closer to NYC, but only for the food.
Incidentally, I wow my friends often with your cabbage schi recipe. Most have never had anything, except gin, seasoned with juniper berries. I bless your grandmother eveytime I make it.
Hysterical timing! Just had a heated talk about pizza with a friend…as in if you could only have 1 more slice…or you had to walk miles to get it…who’s it gonna be? If I’m sticking local, in town, I’m going to Armand’s. Living just minutes from pizza Mecca…my short list? Pequods! Vito & Nicks! And a lil more excited today to say Paisans, just found out they are opening minutes from my home. 🎉 There are a dozen more I’d be happy to go to, but I’m a thin bubbly burnt crust kind of gal, and they do it best. Our pizza game is pretty strong ‘round here…now I’m also thinking about Lou’s, or Salernos….oh my!
And yes, seems silly to talk pizza when we are fully cognizant of the atrocities both near & far. But life is about balance, do everything you can to help others, but don’t neglect yourself.
Thank you for the pizza therapy! Food, for me, usually makes things better. I have never said WTF so many times in my life as in the last few years.
And thoughts go out to the victims in Brooklyn today 😒
On the cost of foods we want. The price of wheat over the last ten years has increased substantially. Transportation costs have risen. Import costs risen or are harder to procure ( thankful for local and regional producers). Labor costs unfortunately have remained low. We want quality for what many would consider non essential or luxury. Would splurge on a stellar pizza...but can't eat dairy...tho some pizzas are made well w/o it...(good luck)... But envy so the milky comfort of a cheese pizza... just one less thing I have to think about emptying my wallet for.
Oh don't you dare make me salivate for pizza at 10:30 a.m., Andrew Zimmern!
People need to stop talking about DiFara is if it was 10 years ago. It hasn’t been good in a while and I’m afraid Don’s passing isn’t the reason. L&B has also become subpar of late. The baton has been handed over to guys like Scarr’s and Lindustrie, as we’ll as places like Bellucci’s (the new one) and Austin Street in Queens. I think Johns might be the last Manhattan place to get a NYC pizza. Don’t sleep on Ribalta and Song a Napule for Neapolitan as well.
Head about 70 miles north on I-95 to New Haven for some apizza! Nothing else comes close… Too many great spots to name them all, but Modern Apizza is a must.
When I lived in New York, I liked John's in the Village, but it became too touristy. Cornet near Columbia U. had dollar slices bigger than your head and were amazing when drunk. Now I'm stuck in the pizza desert of Buffalo, where the locals think their pizza is good but it isn't. Do you know of any coal fired pizza places in NYC?
I appreciate the fact that Andrew is an expert in the food industry. One of his implied goals is to bring unity within our divisive world. Food is a means to do that.
As he shares these clips, may we remember what our King shared: "... Man shall not live by bread alone ... and that in Me (Jesus) ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I (Jesus) have overcome the world. ... I (Jesus) am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I (Jesus) give is my flesh, which I give for the life of the world."