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Chopped liver!

I posted my grandmother's chopped liver recipe on my blog. Not sure if it is unusual or not, but it is very good.

http://www.nyfoodanywhere.com/labels/recipe.html

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Great Sicilian Slices at Sal's Pizzeria in Mamaroneck

Hey Nick I am a fellow Purchase alumni myself. Sal's is pretty good. I used to also hit up T&J's Pizza and Pasta in Port Chester on Weschester Ave. They make a great slice as well (Regular and Sicilian).

Flaksman
http://www.nyfoodanywhere.com

From Slice

Any Good New York Style Pizza in Miami?

I recommend Papa Piccolo Pizzeria in Kendall. I lived right around the corner during my days in Graduate School and probably ate there almost every day. It isn't going to knock your socks off but they make a respectable NY slice and great Chicken Parm sub. This is where I spent my time trying to fill the NY pizza void while living in Miami. My one caveat is I haven't lived in Miami in almost 10 years so I can't be sure things are still the same

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http://www.nyfoodanywhere.com

From Serious Eats: New York

Top 5 Chinese Spare Ribs

And for those looking for spareribs in the seattle area check out my recent blog post at www.nyfoodanywhere.com

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From Talk

Chopped liver!

I posted my grandmother's chopped liver recipe on my blog. Not sure if it is unusual or not, but it is very good.

http://www.nyfoodanywhere.com/labels/recipe.html

From Slice

Great Sicilian Slices at Sal's Pizzeria in Mamaroneck

Hey Nick I am a fellow Purchase alumni myself. Sal's is pretty good. I used to also hit up T&J's Pizza and Pasta in Port Chester on Weschester Ave. They make a great slice as well (Regular and Sicilian).

Flaksman
http://www.nyfoodanywhere.com

From Slice

Any Good New York Style Pizza in Miami?

I recommend Papa Piccolo Pizzeria in Kendall. I lived right around the corner during my days in Graduate School and probably ate there almost every day. It isn't going to knock your socks off but they make a respectable NY slice and great Chicken Parm sub. This is where I spent my time trying to fill the NY pizza void while living in Miami. My one caveat is I haven't lived in Miami in almost 10 years so I can't be sure things are still the same

Flaksman
http://www.nyfoodanywhere.com

From Serious Eats: New York

Top 5 Chinese Spare Ribs

And for those looking for spareribs in the seattle area check out my recent blog post at www.nyfoodanywhere.com

From Slice

Apizza Scholls: One of the Top Five Pizzerias in America

The one down side of this restaurant is that they have not learned how to make enough dough to meet the demand. Multiple times I have driven down from Seattle to Portland to try their pizza and have waited on line for hours only to be told when I reached the door that they ran out of dough. They might make great pizza but that is no excuse for poor customer service.

From Serious Eats: New York

New York Food Anywhere

While I agree that the definition of NY food is open for debate I can't help but think my opinions are shared by many. My entire childhood through college was spent in New York and I have spent the past 12 years living elsewhere in country. No matter where I go I find expat New Yorkers who eagerly agree with my desire for what I consider to be, NY comfort food. How else can you explain the countless blogs devoted solely to things like NY pizza, NY bagels and other food I have been writing about. There is even a guy who has a blog devoted to the Black and White cookie! So I encourage you to reminisce about your “ GCOB local Oysters” and while you are doing that I will be eating even better Oysters at Elliott’s Oyster House in Seattle reminiscing about food I really can’t get outside of New York!

From Serious Eats: New York

New York Food Anywhere

Thanks for the shout-out! And I promise more posts are coming ASAP!

From Slice

Great Sicilian Slices at Sal's Pizzeria in Mamaroneck

Having lived in Mt. Vernon, I did visit Sal's once. I can say with confidence that the Sicilian slice at Joe's Fleetwood pizza in Mt. Vernon is superior. It's less greasy and the cheese that they use is less stringy.

From Slice

Any Good New York Style Pizza in Miami?

In Miami:
Two Brothers owned by 2 Italian brothers. Excellent! 2 locations Town & Country mall SW 117th Avenue and in front of Dandy Bear on SW 137th Avenue
Mike's Pizza owned by one of the Cozzoli family of the famous Dadeland Cozzoli's back in the late 70's besides Dandy Bear on SW 137th Avenue
Miami's Best Pizza on US1 near UM
Big Cheese on US1 near Dadeland
Andiamo in North Miami 55th and Biscayne

From Slice

Great Sicilian Slices at Sal's Pizzeria in Mamaroneck

does Sal's have a second branch in White Plains? There's a pretty damn good sicilian slice on mamaroneck ave in white plains that has been there at least ten years or so...

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Any Good New York Style Pizza in Miami?

Mauro Pizza [by the Slice] in Hollywood.

It's a little bit north of Miami, but there is a great beer bar next door called PRL that you can hit at the same time.

From Slice

Any Good New York Style Pizza in Miami?

I moved from Brooklyn to Kendall in 1975 (behind Dadeland) and never wanted for NY slices because I found Cozzoli's in the mall to be a very reasonable facimile. Being young and homesick for NYC, I didn't stay there long, but when I returned to visit the area years later, I noticed that they had opened more locations. I see that they are still around, but since no one here has made mention of them, I suspect that their pies no longer compare to a good New York slice. Or perhaps I don't know jack about NY pizza and they never did. The latter is very unlikely, however.

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

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Any Good New York Style Pizza in Miami?

I am Bensonhurst native-Down here in Florida you can fahgedaboud places like Totonnos- people in the Tampa Bay area where I live think Papa Johns is great. However, I found one place that is OK -for NYC,Very Good for Florida. The Pizzeria is Pino's-it is on U.S. Hwy.19 and Alderman Road in Palm Harbor,over in Pinellas County-about 40 minutes from Tampa Airport. Owner Pino is a Napolitano who used to run a Pizzeria in Brooklyn when he first came to the US.Pino's is kind of a trattoria-they serve Pasta alla Carbonara,other,Pasta,good Veal Parmeggiano and and fried Calamari that are not burnt like Onion rings.Unlike other alleged Italian restaurants down here,Calamari heads and tentacles are served ,,and if people think that's "icky"- Olive Gardens are all over. Crowded on Weekends-expect 1/2 hr. or more wait.No delivery-Call and order your pie about 15 min. in advance.

From Slice

Great Sicilian Slices at Sal's Pizzeria in Mamaroneck

You all are so lucky! I've been living outside of the Northeast for several decades and now in metro DC...there is no real pizza outside of the NE. I miss those bubbles in the crust. They say it's the water used to make the crust that makes the crust so crunchy and thin and wonderful.

From Slice

Great Sicilian Slices at Sal's Pizzeria in Mamaroneck

I second the "Can there ever be too much cheese?" comment, especially when paired with such an amazing-looking crust.

From Slice

Great Sicilian Slices at Sal's Pizzeria in Mamaroneck

It does look like too much cheese, but as I said it always ends up being just the right amount.

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Great Sicilian Slices at Sal's Pizzeria in Mamaroneck

looks like too much cheese for a sicilian pizza.... usually it's a little
simpler with a garlicy tomato sauce and spotty mozzarella & romano....
but, hey, i'm only half sicilian!

From Slice

Great Sicilian Slices at Sal's Pizzeria in Mamaroneck

I thought that neon said Sichuan Pizza. Now that might be interesting.

From Slice

Apizza Scholls: One of the Top Five Pizzerias in America

native new havener here, just returned from PDX...

the pizza at scholls was really good. more nyc napo than new haven. what really wowed me about the pie here was the depth of the sauce. it was complex, rich.. had a roasty, meaty, pungent flavor that reminded me a lot of homemade pasta sauce.

i'll be back in portland soon and will certainly revisit apizza scholls. good beer selection, too..

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Apizza Scholls: One of the Top Five Pizzerias in America

Flaksman,

We make enough dough to meet the demand of a complete 5 hour dinner service at maximum capacity. We generally finish making pizzas right around 10pm. If I made more dough, I would have to keep my doors open even longer, and at the moment, working 14 hours a day is plenty for me.

I am a little confused by your comment about standing in line for hours only to be turned away. The longest anyone has waited in line, before opening, was about an hour. On average, people start lining up for the first seating about half an hour before we open. After we open, those who have waited in line are sat and then there is no longer a line. If the restaurant fills up completely at opening, then people who come in put their name on the waiting list, and every one who puts their name on the list gets a pizza. If it is a busy night and we do pull the waiting list (we don't sell out of dough every night) it generally occurs at about 8pm, which is three hours after opening. That being said, I am curious to know what pizzeria you waited in line for hours, only to be told that they were out of dough when you finally got to the door.

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Apizza Scholls: One of the Top Five Pizzerias in America

Flaksman...Brian's unwillingness to whip up more dough last minute and serve so-so pizza is a mark of the control freak perfectionist he is. I call that thoughtful!

So arrive when I do...4.30 or so, wait only a little, enjoy a lot!

Incidentally, my wife, my ex-Brooklynite friend, and I have driven there for dinner—from Seattle! That's 3 hours one-way. Worth it? Yeah, and not just for nostalgia. That "char" (deliciously caramelized crust, that is), those bubbles....swoon-city, baby.

This is hard to say, but here goes: I grew up in New Haven, thought I could never find better. But I did back-to-back trips to Portland and New Haven, and have to admit that Brian Spangler's the winner.

From Serious Eats: New York

New York Food Anywhere

This LES Jewish-Italian vision of NY authenticity is really too banal and um ethnocentric. Can somebody please write a musical and throw the carcass to the tourists? I've lived in NY on and off for many years and I can tell you that I've never suffered for want of fried wontons or chicken parmesan, not in New Haven and not in LA. I am thinking about a possible move even now, and it's Evans Farmhouse milk, Fishkill Farms eggs, local oysters at the GCOB, lebneh and freekeh from Kalustyan's, the odd reservation number at Sushi Yasuda and delivery from Moore Brothers that I worry about. These are among the products I associate with New York food (obviously with at least as broad and international a perspective as the op's).

I recognize that there are more takes on NY food than there are mouths and menus but this is egregious synecdoche.


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Website: http://www.nyfoodanywhere.com

Location: Seattle

About: expat New Yorker who will do anything to find New York food in other parts of the country!

Favorite foods: Pizza and Chicken Parmesan Subs

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