Famous Original A's

Brooklyn

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Totonno’s serves one of the better coal-oven pizzas in NYC. A plain pizza from just after the joint’s triumphant post-Sandy reopening.

You know, you’re not going to go wrong adding toppings to a Totonno’s pizza, but when the joint is firing on all cylinders, like it was when I visited yesterday, you only need a plain pie for a satisfying meal.

Of course that didn’t stop me and my dining companion from getting another pizza topped with sausage. (more…)

Large pepperoni pizza from Grimaldi’s Coney Island, $16.

Grimaldi’s, on an expansion jag as of late, has opened a branch in Coney Island. For the longest time I’ve thought the one under the Brooklyn Bridge was a tourist trap, but a recent visit to its new digs and a visit to the Coney outpost have me reconsidering. (more…)

Every Friday I drop a pizza review on Slice. Here, on FOA, I give a little background info.

Pauline & Sharon's Pizza on Fourth and Prospect avenues replaced Peppe's Pizza & Panini in November 2010.

I originally visited the Park Slope area to try newly opened Giuseppina’s up on Sixth Avenue and 19th Street. It’s the long-anticipated sister restaurant of Lucali in Carroll Gardens. Or should I say “brother restaurant”? Giuseppina was opened by Chris Iacono, brother of Lucali’s Mark Iacono. If you know anything about Brooklyn or NYC pizza, the fact that top-rated Lucali has spawned a spin-off is BIG NEWS. After a year of delays, it had finally opened last week.

As at Lucali, though, it’s impossible to take a decent photo in the dim lighting there. This was Wednesday, and I needed to have my review in by Thursday night. Problem. I could either go back as close to opening (6pm) as possible and try to get a shot in what remained of the daylight or scramble to review a different place.

Luckily, I had stopped by Pauline & Sharon’s on my way up to Giuseppina’s.

See my “review” on Slice » (more…)