Messy and Picky

Yesterday, we ate… a lot. We got our NY bagel fix between the hotel and Messy's conference at the Garden City Deli on 9th Ave around 42nd St. It wasn't the best bagel Picky has had (he'll head downtown to SoHo for that later), but it quenched their lust for a good bagel and Steve […]

We went to La Fourno on a particularly cold night, and we were immediately warmed up by a brick oven hard at work. Our friendly hostess lead us past a large counter with tons of pizzas into the rear portion of the dining room which was very cozy — intimate, even! — with barely any lighting aside from candlelight bouncing off of the exposed brick walls…

Although we have had pretty good experiences with Pine Street Pizza, there is one major disappointment: there are no single slices. A small pie, which costs $5.75, is slightly bigger than a Pizza Hut personal pan pizza. They come with six small slices, roughly equal to two and a half "real" slices. The pizza is thick, and Greek-style, with crust that tastes almost like French bread. It's a good balance of mozz and sauce, but still too thick and chewy for Picky's liking…

First off, we gotta say that Lazaro's slices are huuuuge, even by our standards. They're also pretty tasty: our only complaint is that the sauce is way too sweet. But otherwise, the pizza is very good, especially for Philadelphia…

One of very few gourmet [brick oven] pizza places to earn the seal of approval from Picky, a bona fide pizza snob. With assorted toppings to choose from including, but not limited to: anchovies, arugala, goat cheese, kalamata olives, proscuitto and roasted zucchini. After much deliberation, we settled on roma tomatoes, ricotta and spinach. There is surely something to please everyone…

After more than a dozen failed trips to various "pizza" places, Picky's co-worker told him about this gem…

Due to Picky's skepticism of non-New York Pizza, we ventured into Joe's pizza only on the recommendation of a tried-and-true New Yorker. Sadly, Picky was not impressed…