There is a difference between the smash the raw meatball on the grill to ensure maximum contact with the hot surface versus flipping over a burger that has already cooked on one side and then smashing it. The first method makes a nice crusty outside while the other way just makes for hockey pucks.
Need to grab a slice,
Its been a day since the last,
I can hardly breathe
I'm surprised the owners didn't tell them they weren't open yet and to come back in a few hours like they tell every customer.
Flour everywhere
Fresh dough stuck to all four walls
Next time watch the fan
primeval delight
on a blazing wood fire;
cheese elevates bread.
pizza haiku yay!
pizza limericks, better.
editor, contest?
The beer and pizza
combo. Timeless classic.
Cotes-du-Rhone works too.
Sadness and dismay:
They are squeezing off the oil!
They just don't get it...
Pizza for breakfast?
It's good cold or reheated.
Not so with sushi.
>>> certainly not comparable to Bleecker St. pizza or many others downtown that we frequent, and the artichoke topping gooey and sour.
Any hype whatsoever about Bleecker Street Pizza needs to die. Its one real claim to fame was a feature on Food Network, therefore people think it's great.
It's fine for just a slice, but why ever go there when Joe's is three blocks away?
If all they can do is make one pie at a time for the 30 minute long line of people, why are they even open to the public yet? I waited THIRTY full minutes and when I got to the front was told it would be another 10 minutes for a slice of whatever was coming out. Insanity. I will never return. Being a New Yorker I should have known better.
"Toppings were uninteresting with the regular slice being nowhere near as good as at most slice places, certainly not comparable to Bleecker St. pizza"
Haven't been to Artichoke yet -- it was closed when i first went and last night the line was 25 people deep. But from my observations, it looked like people were having fun waiting on line (singing along to the music - Stones, Cheap Trick, Sinatra). I kept seeing people walk out of the store with pizza in their hands; nodding and saying "yumm" with each bite. So all the blog buzz, NY Mag, Slice hype aside....I think seeing people's reactions is an even better measure of the food.
But I have been to Bleeker Street Pizza (and reviewed it on Yelp) -- that pizza is WAY overrated. Crisp my @ss! The nonna maria was too crisp it broke apart when folded!
Will try to make it to Artichoke this weekend and will report in. But reading the Yelp boards and other blogs -- seems people are really into the experience. Toppings? I thought they only serve 3 pies and no toppings except cheese?
Some dude even filmed having a broccoli rabe sandwich from Artichoke. http://moourl.com/rabewich
All comments about the queue aside, isn't the point of being a true Noo Yawker is to find ways to get around the line (go at off-times, get chummy with the people behind the counter, etc), rather than wait in it?
I must take issue, Texan. Ask the people waiting on line if they're native. Chances are, not. We don't even form a line for getting on the bus! (And, unlike the rest of the country, we wait on line, not in it!)
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