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If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
No rec's here, I'm not in NY, I'm just so happy to see that I'm not the only pizza nut around!
TJ, good luck on your hunt and let us all know how it goes!
Serious Cheese: What Happens When a Curd Nerd Becomes Lactose Intolerant?
Poor jamie!
Okay, first, as everyone says, get tested for LI, gallbladder, etc. : ) . If you are indeed lactose intolerance, there's tons you can do! (I'm slightly LI myself.)
The take with or just before meal pills are best - and make sure you take enough of them!
Also if you've had food and an hour afterwards realized "Oh no! I ate milk" there is a chinese herbal pill that has saved me. It's called "Curing Pill" it comes in a red box, filled with ten tiny red boxes (each tiny box has a tiny tube, silly but true) and it is SO helpful. It is a pill to aid digestion. And it can help break down something in your tummy that just isn't breaking down on it's own. Like lactose. And if you're already crampy? Take it, it will help then too.
And yes I know there are many fears about foods from china. But this has no protein level (and most of the problem foods have protein) and, I've been taking it for years. So... Just an FYI on something that has really helped me.
Sugar Rush: Grapenut Ice Cream from Bittersweet
If you ever get to Los Angeles you have to go to a tiny but wondrous ice cream parlor called "Scoops". The owner changes flavors every day - except for his brown bread ice cream. Folks simply won't do without it.
It's absolutely AMAZING, and the "secret" ingredient? Grape nuts!
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Brooklyn Star Brunch: The South Has Risen Again in Williamsburg
To SugarApple I say -
Crisco is now transfat free.
And if you keep butter cold enough and don't overwork the dough, you'll have a delightfully falky biscuit that way too.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
No rec's here, I'm not in NY, I'm just so happy to see that I'm not the only pizza nut around!
TJ, good luck on your hunt and let us all know how it goes!
Serious Cheese: What Happens When a Curd Nerd Becomes Lactose Intolerant?
Poor jamie!
Okay, first, as everyone says, get tested for LI, gallbladder, etc. : ) . If you are indeed lactose intolerance, there's tons you can do! (I'm slightly LI myself.)
The take with or just before meal pills are best - and make sure you take enough of them!
Also if you've had food and an hour afterwards realized "Oh no! I ate milk" there is a chinese herbal pill that has saved me. It's called "Curing Pill" it comes in a red box, filled with ten tiny red boxes (each tiny box has a tiny tube, silly but true) and it is SO helpful. It is a pill to aid digestion. And it can help break down something in your tummy that just isn't breaking down on it's own. Like lactose. And if you're already crampy? Take it, it will help then too.
And yes I know there are many fears about foods from china. But this has no protein level (and most of the problem foods have protein) and, I've been taking it for years. So... Just an FYI on something that has really helped me.
Sugar Rush: Grapenut Ice Cream from Bittersweet
If you ever get to Los Angeles you have to go to a tiny but wondrous ice cream parlor called "Scoops". The owner changes flavors every day - except for his brown bread ice cream. Folks simply won't do without it.
It's absolutely AMAZING, and the "secret" ingredient? Grape nuts!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks
Ribeye!
I'm still not the best griller but ribeye is mighty forgiving and also tastes great when dry fried in kosher salt for the hubby.
First Taste: A Pizza Preview of Jim Lahey's Upcoming Pizzeria, Co.
Hello? How about a holla for the rabbit lamp?!
I mean kudos for the dough structure, that is huge. But keeping the rabbit lamp and all the odd whimsy therein? They get MANY extra points...
Sweet Ticket Giveaway, Week 2: What's Your Favorite Childhood Dessert Memory?
Oreos with milk. And chasing down the good humor man in the summer evenings. The fudge striped bar with the chocolate crunchies on the outside.... Yum!
Flagel = Flat Bagel
For over 30 years, a flat bagel, with topping or without, has been known as a pletzel - at least in Cleveland.
You can get them small, you can get them, large. They are WONDERFUL. But new, they are not!
Sugar Rush: "Classic Toast" With Condensed Milk and Butter at Saint's Alp
Thank you Kathy!
Now I can play... : )
Sugar Rush: "Classic Toast" With Condensed Milk and Butter at Saint's Alp
Is it sweetened condensed milk or plain?
Need to know so I can recreate it at home!
Sugar Rush: "Classic Toast" With Condensed Milk and Butter at Saint's Alp
Oh good heavens! I could feel my heart start to pound too fast from the sugar just from reading it!
And yet.... and yet...
A classic midwestern treat is strong white bread, buttered, then covered with a crunchy layer of white sugar. Eat.
Seeing how similar these treats are, who am I to claim heart palpitations?
The $9 Lobster Roll at Fairway
Is there such a thing as a good cheap lobster roll?
I admire fairway for their quality and price point.
Anyone else have a place they reccomend?
Bobby Flay's Burger Chain Opens on Long Island: Bobby's Burger Palace
The best "chip added" sandwich is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on pepperidge farm white - with a layer of lays potato chips. The extra crunch and salt with the sweet of the jelly - Ohhhhh.
Too bad it's not low-cal!
'Top Chef' Finale Predictions
Oh, hooray! I LOVE Stephanie!
I adore Richard too, and my heart broke that, as he admitted, he choked. But he is amazing and he will go far.
That said - woo hoo Stephanie!
Even if they edited Lisa to be more awful than she was, her food just wasn't as consistent and creative as Richard, Stephanie, Antonia and yes, even poor Dale.
Now I just need to get my hands on some braised pistachios...
In Videos: 'Waiters Who Are Nauseated by Food'
Look how young they are!
Are Chefs More High Maintenance than Other People?
Oh please folks, you missed it. The correct response would be -
"Thanks! And I don't hate you, much, either!"
Ed Levine's Serious Diet Week 8: Timing Is Everything and Temptation at Every Turn
Congratulations! And considering part of your job is to eat - you are doing extra well!
I do not agree in the folks who cut out everything, I think that just BEGS for a boomerang effect.
Let's go back to what my healthy, long lived Brooklyn grandma preached - Moderation.
Long life and health to you!
How Do You Feel About Valentine's Day?
I'm kind of in the middle too. It needs to be observed (It's always good to have another excuse to treasure your spouse, life gets so nutty!) but - the whole diamonds/big dinner thing? Made up, over-priced and no fun.
My husband, sweetheart that he is, is saying "Pick a restaurant you've always wanted to go to! It doesn't have to be small!" But we've gotten burned a few times, going out, spending scads of money and feeling "Ick" afterwards about the whole experience. This year, if we're not too swamped, I'm voting for a nice tasty happy hour at a place we don't get to often enough. Fun, special - but not overpriced and no pressure.
Valentine's Day Chocolate Giveaway
Dark or milk, depending on the day, the mood, the coffee or the wine.
But not white. Cuz it's not chocolate!
Chinese Food, Christmas Day, and the Jews: Where Can We Go for Old-School Chinese?
In Cleveland, and now Los Angeles - Chinese food on Christmas continues!
My folks do take out, we drive to dim sum.
New Christmas Eve Eating Traditions
Dim sum! Both Thanksgiving Day and Xmas day finds my husband and myself in the San Gabriel valley ordering more dim sum than should be legal!
It's tasty, cheap, somewhat healthy and very VERY festive.
Great Clementines from California Right Here in NYC
With a coupon - we got five pounds of california clementines (California cuties was the brand) for $1.99. They are YUMMY. As there is just two of us, we're having to race a bit to get through the box before they go bad but wow - sweet, fresh, bright, they are a real treat.
(As opposed to a few I paid much more for at a local produce. Ah well, happy I found a good box in the end! )
Serious Sandwiches: Junior's Latke Sandwich
I have to wonder as well - you had leftover latkas?!!!
In the house I grew up in - and now my house as well - latka's the next day are gold, not leftovers. Whoever gets the last one wins.
And FYI, Corky and Lenny's In Cleveland has served a latka/corned beef sandwich for passover for decades. Not an Atkins/South beach menu item, but handy...!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: D'Artagnan Heritage Smoked Ham
Mustard and maybe some really sharp cheese. But mosty - mustard.
Although a ham sandwich on sweet phillipino bread, with jam and white cheese is oddly good.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
If you haven't already left NYC, I recommend a place called Italia Pizza in the Bensonhurst/Gravesend area of Brooklyn. Like Di Fara, it is located on a street corner, but obviously not the same one. It's a family owned shop. Their ovens are made of steel as well. That's where the similarities end though. At Di Fara's, Dom is the only one making the pies. Not the case here, but it is still a great slice. Nor, do they finish the pie with fresh basil, oil, or more cheese. While Di Fara's looks like a hole in the wall pizza joint, the decor at Italia is much more modern and updated. You can get a regular slice, along with both, Sicilian and grandma slices. If I remember correctly, their hours are from 11/11:30AM to the earliest closing around 10PM.
If you're willing to trek out there, this place is on Kings Highway and West 6TH Street. To get there, you take the N train to Kings Highway in Brooklyn. If you are coming in from Manhattan, you would have to be in, or near the last car. From there, once you are out of the station, make a right, that corner would be Kings Highway and West 7TH Street. Walk down one more block, and you will find yourself on the diagonal corner of the restaurant. Their Sicilian slices are good, but grandma slices are phenomenal, if you like thin, crispy crusts for your slices. I usually get the grandma slices for $2.50.
Other than Di Fara's, that is the only pizzeria I would go out of my way for.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
Oh, Totonno's if they're open. Just bite the bullet and head to Coney.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
I haven't done most of these, but Joe's of Bleeker shouldn't be the other NYC pie. I liked even John's more, and Patsy's blows it away.
Serious Cheese: What Happens When a Curd Nerd Becomes Lactose Intolerant?
Thought for years I was lactose intolerant. Then was prescribed a Z-pack antibiotic, now i can digest dairy!!!!!! Apparently something was blocking the enzyme needed to digest dairy & the antibiotic killed it. But just recently had the stomach flu, was still sick after 2 weeks. Doc said the dairy products were FEEDING the BAD BACTERIA. Said no dairy for 2 weeks, then start adding back in PROBIOTICS (Activia, ect....) for 2 weeks then add regular dairy back in. Still in the no dairy stage, will let you know if it works. Cross your fingers!!!! lol Found this site looking for cheese low in lactose, Thank you so much for a wealth of info everyone!!!!
Flagel = Flat Bagel
I was taking a weekend in Bucks County Pa. When I stumbled upon a Deli named Bagel Junction in Newtown. Their Flagels and traditional Bagels are as good as any in NYC .The lines to the front door were there for a reason and their prices were a relief compared to NY. This place is like home away from home. If your craving NY food this is the place!
Egg salad...what's your secret ingredient?
A touch of Spectrum organic mayo just to bind the eggs together, chives, a squeeze of lemon juice, salt and pepper. Occasionally I'll add in a handful of diced celery for crunch.
Egg salad...what's your secret ingredient?
Two eggs, tuna, a dod of lurpak slightly salted butter, salt & pepper all mashed up together.
Eat in whatever fashion you like!
Some other extras could be some spring onions. You could even try a little sweet chilli dipping sauce to give you a kick up the arse or maybe thats just me cause im obsessed with the stuff haha.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
Vic's Pizza Gravesend Brooklyn, meatball hero with sauce one of a kind. Made by Vic's mom supposedly in the kitchen. small place, but old school square slices that make you feel well. Considering the fact that L&B squares seem smaller nowadays than back in the glorious 1980's, Vic's is a nice sized square.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
@paulie: Sac's? Looks like it
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
If I had to recommend another NY pizza joint besides DiFara, I wouldn't be too enthusiastic about *anywhere* that I've been. It really also depends, where is this visitor coming from, and what are their expectations? How discriminating are they? What kind of pizza have they had before?
First of all at DiFara's the pizza will be fabulously great, unless he cooks it in the top oven. I've consistently had inferior slices from the top oven. The crust is either not hardened enough by the cooking, or it turns into a 'cracker' without browning.
I enjoyed Sal & Carmine's but I reserve judgment if I have occasion to get a whole pie rather than a slice. It is still not the pizza I recall from my childhood outside of Boston, which was cooked by Italian immigrants in DeMarco's generation (all now long-retired).
Bleecker St pizza is my current top favorite in Manhattan, but *only* for the regular slice, not the wretched "Nonna Maria" stuff (contrary to what some people with bad taste say). The regular slice is pretty good, not great. There is something slightly off-putting about it, but anyway, NYC is totally bereft of good pizza.
I haven't been to the original Patsy's in a few years, but even then I found it was not as good as it was a few years earlier. I've heard good things (first hand) about Totonno's but haven't made the trek yet.
Artichoke Basille is ok, not great. It was inconsistent when I was going there. I want to support them but I think I threw away a few regular slices which were barely edible. I don't know if they use the same dough recipe as DiFara but if they do, then either their technique is bad or inconsistent or their oven is not hot enough. I cannot for the life of me order one of those steakhouse creamed spinach slices.
Most of my pizza experience is in greater Boston, where pizza like DiFara was the norm and not the exception, minus the "messy" artisinal aspect which I do like because it is quirky and great. I live in NY now and I find it amazing that NYers put up with such terrible pizza from almost every single place; and reflect on how sad it is that only DiFara still exists. Granted it is the same in Boston now, too, and doubtless many other places. Don't even mention Chicago, yuck!!!
I think the generation of Italian immigrants who made pizza in the 60s and 70s had enough knowledge and connections back in the old country to get the right ingredients. And I think now the people making pizza just don't care.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
Yes I also hate Artichoke and fail to see what all the fuss is about. There is a perfectly fabulous slice 2 blocks away at Mariella's on 3rd and 16th.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
I've always thought of the l&b square as a kind of a hybrid between the two since it tastes (and looks from above) more like a grandma than a sicilian even if it is a thicker than the standard. Hell, my favorite grandma slice in my neighborhood is even thicker than those are (and yes, they list it as grandma on the menu).
christ, now I have to check out new park too. thanks for getting that in my head.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
ill throw down another vote for artichoke!
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
I've had some disappointing pizza at Sac's in the past, but the pizza in this picture makes me want to run out and try it again - really gorgeous looking pie there. I will definitely have to check it out again to see if what I experienced was just a fluke or what.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
I only went to Louie and Ernie's once, but it was great. I don't like any of the other suggestions except Patsy's in Harlem. As stated, due to inconsistencies, you often get an inferior pie at Patsy's. Too bad La Marionetta isn't around anymore. It was the best in NYC.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
@engmcmuffin: Nope, a grandma slice is not the same as a sicilian slice. If I say so myself, we described the difference pretty well at this link...
@pauliegee and mike: for some reason, I have been thinking about New Park since I saw this post in the first place. I've gotta go there really soon... :)
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
Definitely L&B Spumoni Gardens for their Sicilian slices or pies!
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
A-f**kin'-men, Mike. Best traditional NY slice in the city. Or anywhere for that matter. And it goes great with their fruit punch.
Ciao,
Paulie Gee
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
@passion4pizza. I've never really used the term "grandma slice", so maybe I'm incorrect in my usage...but i thought it applies to the square slices at L&B.
Heres the link to the Slice review.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
@Sloppy and EngMc: Have I been out of Brooklyn too long? When did L&B start serving Grandma's?
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
What you are looking for is New Park pizza on cross bay blvd in howard beach. they have brick oven pizza that is not houty touty bull.
If you come into jfk it is right there.
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
i'm with Sloppy and EngMc
Totonno's and/or S&B
you can get square slices at DiFara's
but Totonno's is in a great retarded neighborhood, and he'd have a better experience overall. more of the same at S&B
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
JUSt a few
NY SLICE...joe's pizza, vinnie vincenz among others
neapolitan...keste
coal oven...patsy in east harlem (NOT any other patsy's)
gianluca
pizzaandcoffee.com
If I Could Only Eat at One NYC Pizzeria (Other Than Di Fara), What Would It Be?
L&B Spumoni Gardens. Especially for the grandma slices.
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To SugarApple I say -
Crisco is now transfat free.
And if you keep butter cold enough and don't overwork the dough, you'll have a delightfully falky biscuit that way too.