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What's the Longest Wait You've Had at Di Fara?
How about the shortest wait? I got in line at 11:40 am a couple Sundays ago as the first stop on a Brooklyn pizza tour day (Di Fara, Franny's , Totonno, Grimaldi's). Dom handed us the first pizza out of the oven 15 minutes later, before they were even officially open. Brilliant! As the comment above says, nothing compared to my five hour odyssey during a prime Saturday night at Sally's.
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I wonder what, per the Times post, what some of the top pizzaiolos would charge for pies with an eye towards cutting wait times. I think Mangieri was pretty close around $24 per pie, as I always walked right in at UPN, even when it was decently crowded. What would Bianco have to charge for a pie? $75? He'd get a lot of angry Yelpers, but now they'd be complaining about price and not wait.
What's the Longest Wait You've Had at Di Fara?
How about the shortest wait? I got in line at 11:40 am a couple Sundays ago as the first stop on a Brooklyn pizza tour day (Di Fara, Franny's , Totonno, Grimaldi's). Dom handed us the first pizza out of the oven 15 minutes later, before they were even officially open. Brilliant! As the comment above says, nothing compared to my five hour odyssey during a prime Saturday night at Sally's.
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Me and a friend waited for 3 hours for a square pie once, but it was prime-time on a very nice spring day on a Saturday (ordered at 3, got it around 6)
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@adam -- i was actually referring to the link right above my comment. you guys clearly don't need to rely on difara posts for traffic.
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My lone wait was in the 2 1/2 hour territory, last summer, the night the tropical storm hit the area on a Saturday night.
As for being "overrated......" I mean, it's a very good pizza, but it just can't possibly ever match the praise that's thrown at it. You'll never have a pizza with more love put into it, but you'll have better pizza.....in New Haven, and even in a few places that get little love in NYC.
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@Adam Since you removed denali1540's ad, my comment doesn't have a reference. You should remove mine (and this one) as well.
Thanks,
Paulie Gee
What's the Longest Wait You've Had at Di Fara?
Just posted a review of Lucali in Carroll Gardens...at least they let you call ahead :) And the pizza is amazing.
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Forget it denali1540. These people will never kick their DiFara jones.
Ciao,
Paulie Gee
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Why are the lines so long? Does he only sell by the slice and make a single pizza at a time? Can you not call in an order? Is the whole thing really about the show??
Really curious, never been there..
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I feel like we were there for 3 hours. Of course, it got smokey at some point and I stopped being able to see inside. I didn't even think it was WORTH the wait. Pizza was kind of too oily although the cheese was heavenly.
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I always wonder how popular DiFara's would have become if only whole pies were available. We'll never know.
Ciao,
Paulie Gee
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That's crazy! I hope you had a good book.
If you are going to eat a lot at this joint, it may be worth it to invest in a Kindle!
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egadman and brooklyn brownie stole my crown! and hey - no cheating by bragging how quickly you got a SLICE!
i agree with you adam about the stale pie. i never eat old pizza, but dom's is great reheated for several days. i'm guessing it's the oil.
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@sloppy: It wasn't posted to "drum up traffic" but as a suggestion by way of Norman. I'm sure I could think up better ways to drum up traffic. As it is, talking about the wait at Di Fara or how good it is is pretty stale. Not too many new ways to talk about the place anymore.
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hey, it's the annual anti-di fara blog post to drum up traffic! whoopee!!!
http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2008/07/difaras-attacked-by-blogger.html
personally, i don't go there very often because of the hassle and the fact that i can have a more civilized, less sloppy, and just as tasty meal at totonno's. whatever.
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Di Fara overrated?
Check it out....
http://www.ubereater.com/2009/03/artisanal-sin-doubting-di-fara-pizza.html
The Ubereater
www.ubereater.com
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The sugar is for the zeppole in the bottom left of the picture.
I once waited 3 hours in the middle of the day--that was tough, but still its fun to watch Dom make pizza. Usually though my experience is to wait one hour or less.
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@southlake98 and oregonpinot -- hey geniuses, Di Fara has zeppole, too.
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I don't know about confectionary sugar but surely some pizza lovers out there have tried honey? Legendary pie spot here in the pacNW has a honey bear on every table... Try it on peperoni!
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Usually my wait hasn't been terrible, but one time we did wait 3 hours. We ended up closing out the place with the last pie of the night. The sad part was about 15 minutes into the wait Dom had an unclaimed pie that we were very, very tempted to call our own. But we held back not wanted to steal it from it's rightful owner. By the end of the night it was clear that no one picked up the pie. :(
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maybe its just some kind of dumb luck, but I've never waited more than about 45 minutes, and we've been many times. Have always gone sometime mid-afternoon, Sat or Sun. Granted, I haven't been in the last year or so...and it seems like its gotten worse.
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i'm wondering what the confectionary sugar is doing in this pic..?
is he now adding a sprinkling of this after the pies come out the oven?
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My only wait was like 15 minutes. ACCIDENTALLY. As Dom was cutting a pie I told him "Dom I came all the way from California to eat your pizza." (I had made a tour of pizza places on my vacation) Dom said thank you and handed me the first two slices he cut. His daughter objected. But Dom waved her off. I told everyone in line what happened, offered up my slices, but no one wanted them. His daughter said..."Well if he wanted to give 'em to you what can I do."
The great part, seeing this pizza artisan cut fresh basil was one of the transcendent food moments of my life!
What's the Longest Wait You've Had at Di Fara?
I once waited an hour and fifty minutes. Uncoincidentally, that was my last visit. Used to go weekly, but I really can't deal with the scrum anymore. Now DiFara is the legendary pizza of my late youth, joining Pizzatown USA in Elmwood Park, NJ (the legendary pizza of my childhood and adolescence).
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Y'know how the temperature during the winter is reported with "wind chill factor" making it feel like....?
Well, I waited one hour on a hot, humid summer day. With the heat index, that was equivalent to a wait of two days and seven hours.
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I wonder what, per the Times post, what some of the top pizzaiolos would charge for pies with an eye towards cutting wait times. I think Mangieri was pretty close around $24 per pie, as I always walked right in at UPN, even when it was decently crowded. What would Bianco have to charge for a pie? $75? He'd get a lot of angry Yelpers, but now they'd be complaining about price and not wait.