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I never could go in there. The light was way too bright. I do miss Tahini, though. That was a good sandwich. Hope someone figures out something interesting there. The space seems to turn over frequently.
ReplyDeleteIt was always SO bright and antiseptic, like you might be questioned by the FBI or asked to perform surgery in between bites. I stayed away and clearly too many people did too.
ReplyDeletethere are several places that look like this one, and are called little italy pizza. the only specific one i can think of this minute is on the boardwalk in brighton.
ReplyDeleteand i believe another was/is in the village.
in any case there was nothing enticing about any of the places and they also had too much light.
pizza places come and go so quickly it is hard to keep track of them
and there are so many now
It's a chain/franchise of some sort. There's one on University between 11th and 12th and another next to Penn Station on 32nd. Nothing to mourn here.
ReplyDeleteI went in there. It was the worst slice I ever had. Really made me miss the old St. Marks Pizza, which used to be the best slice around.
ReplyDeleteIt's a chain - there's another one on 33rd b/n Madison & 5th Avenue. It's not a terrible slice of pizza, but it's very geared towards tourists and whatnot. They all have the same look - like most chains.
ReplyDeletereminds me of the Sandy days, where (among many restaurants) south brooklyn pizza was open only by candlelight. so few establishments have a sense of aesthetics.
ReplyDeleteI passed by just as the workers were hilariously loading trays of fresh pizza dough along with half used cans of tomato sauce and olives in the back of a white van while trying not to spill them all over the place. A guy carrying out a deli cheese slicer said they needed to leave in a hurry. Looks like another fly by night operation as they were moving all the fresh ingredients to another one of their locations, but thank God they are gone. Enough with the cheap pizza and falafel joints. Hello, future cheap food entrepreneurs, but Mahmoun's down the block is much better and cheaper than your stale overpriced grease balls. Can't we just get a Dojo's restaurant back on St. Marks, or are we stuck with transient crappy junk food joints and bad Korean restaurants that also close every six months. I think I see a Taco Bell express taking over this space in the near future. And sadly that would be an improvement. Feliz Navidad!
ReplyDeleteGiovanni, Dojo was filthy, greasy non healthy. The staff was rude, never courteous in all the times i was there. This vision of a utopian village some posters on this blog have boggles my mind.
ReplyDeleteI don't like the franchise stres as much as anyone else but Dojo? Oh gawd!!!
Kevin Bernardo
Agree with you Kevi. 8th Street always had such garbage restaurants and food. In-fact, it have probably come up in quality. The "Old Days" people are full-of-shit. I grew up there in the sixties, I remember it all.
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