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    Speedy Romeo Pizza Review – New York – Lower East Side

    Dinner last night Speedy Romeo, and my friends and I could not stop talking about how good it was! I've heard good things about this pizzeria for years but didn't have a reason to visit until we went to the @dvnny1 gallery opening and needed something for second dinner. We started with the mozzarella appetizer with wood-fired butternut squash, raisins, brown butter, and toast. Then we had the St. Louie pie with pepperoni, sausage, and pickled chilis, and the Kind Brother with bechamel sauce, wild mushroom, smoked mozzarella, egg, and sage. We still weren't full, so we had the Dangerfield with bechamel sauce, pork-veal meatballs, ricotta, basil, and garlic chips.…

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    Emmy Squared, Detroit-Style Pizza in Williamsburg

    To me, the Clinton Hill pizzeria Emily is famous because my neighbor and her husband own it. My boyfriend and I started going there because they offered everyone in our building a free dessert, and there aren’t many places I wouldn’t go for a free s’mores calzone. We kept going to Emily because it turned out the pizza was really the epitome of what great NY wood-fired pizza can be, with an airy, crisp crust that wasn’t hard and overly chewy. And then all of NYC went there, too, not only for the funky pizza concoctions (like the Colony with pickled chilis and honey) but for the award-winning burger that…

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    Forno Rosso Pizzeria and Its Half-Pizza-Half-Calzone

    I’m writing pizzeria reviews as Examiner.com’s Manhattan Pizza Examiner. I know it shows that I have the palate of a 5-year-old, but pizza’s easily my favourite food, so you can count on me for plenty of fangirling over crust and sauce in these articles. I had to order the Forno Rosso, figuring they wouldn’t name it after the restaurant itself if they kind of didn’t want anyone ordering it, and also figuring that the best situation one could ever encounter in a pizzeria is a half-pizza/half-calzone on the menu. The Forno Rosso is part classic calzone (house-made tomato sauce, imported smoked mozzarella, ricotta, imported soppressata, EVOO), part Primavera pizza (house-made…

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    Sottocasa: Authentic Neapolitan Pizza in Brooklyn

    I’m writing pizzeria reviews as Examiner.com’s Manhattan Pizza Examiner. I know it shows that I have the palate of a 5-year-old, but pizza’s easily my favourite food, so you can count on me for plenty of fangirling over crust and sauce in these articles. I live a couple of blocks from Sottocasa but would have never noticed it, hidden away as it is underground between two staircases. I was looking for it, though, because one of my favorite Brooklyn pizza chefs, the owner of Emily, trained here for years and still talks about what great pizza it is. The owner of Sottocasa trained at NYC favorite Kestè, so it’s a…

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    Barboncino: Some of the Best Pizza in Brooklyn and Beyond

    I’m writing pizzeria reviews as Examiner.com’s Manhattan Pizza Examiner. I know it shows that I have the palate of a 5-year-old, but pizza’s easily my favourite food, so you can count on me for plenty of fangirling over crust and sauce in these articles. Read my review of all of the pies, meatballs, watermelon salads, and burrata cheese here!

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    Pan Pizza in Brooklyn at Pronto Pizza

    I’m writing pizzeria reviews as Examiner.com’s Manhattan Pizza Examiner. I know it shows that I have the palate of a 5-year-old, but pizza’s easily my favourite food, so you can count on me for plenty of fangirling over crust and sauce in these articles. I’m facing a bit of a conundrum here when it comes to reviewing the pan pizza from Pronto Pizza on Court Street in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood, because Pronto is my go-to Brooklyn pizzeria for delivery, but this is not the pan pizza of my past. From the outside, Pronto Pizza seems a little too new and cutesy for me. The font on their signage is…

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    Fratelli Pizza and Wine Bar – Upper East Side

    I’m writing pizzeria reviews as Examiner.com’s Manhattan Pizza Examiner. I know it shows that I have the palate of a 5-year-old, but pizza’s easily my favourite food, so you can count on me for plenty of fangirling over crust and sauce in these articles. The most important thing I learned thanks to an invitation to dine on the house at Fratelli Pizza and Wine Bar on the Upper East Side is that “fratelli” means “brother” in Italian. So the famed Fratelli brothers in “The Goonies” were really the Brother brothers. You’re welcome. Brothers Jon and Marc Bash opened Fratelli in 2007 after successfully running a cafe next door, and the…

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    Emily – Pizza in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

    I’m writing pizzeria reviews as Examiner.com’s Manhattan Pizza Examiner. I know it shows that I have the palate of a 5-year-old, but pizza’s easily my favourite food, so you can count on me for plenty of fangirling over crust and sauce in these articles. The basic feeling in Brooklyn is that there’s already a pizza saturation, that we’re going to keep trying to reinvent the wheel to the point that it becomes square again, that the last thing we need is another adorable little hipster pizza joint with funny toppings. . . but no one’s saying that about Emily in Clinton Hill. Made famous by its crowd-sourced pizza oven funded…

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    Thick Crust: NYC’s First Local Deep-Dish Pizza at Emmett’s

    I’m writing pizzeria reviews as Examiner.com’s Manhattan Pizza Examiner. I know it shows that I have the palate of a 5-year-old, but pizza’s easily my favourite food, so you can count on me for plenty of fangirling over crust and sauce in these articles. The wait for NYC’s first real deep-dish pizza at Emmett’s in SoHo is as long as the crust is tall. If you arrive right at 5:30 p.m. when it opens, the friendly bartender will casually mention you to a server, who will casually push together some of the eight or ten tables for two to accommodate your group. But if you arrive any time after that,…

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    The Gloopy, Sloppy Artichoke Slice at Artichoke Basille’s Pizza

    I’m writing pizzeria reviews as Examiner.com’s Manhattan Pizza Examiner. I know it shows that I have the palate of a 5-year-old, but pizza’s easily my favourite food, so you can count on me for plenty of fangirling over crust and sauce in these articles. I remember reading a magazine article a few years ago in which pizza snobs argued about the best pizza in NYC: was it Lombardi’s, Grimaldi’s, Di Fara? I was confused. It was obviously Artichoke. Read the rest here.

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