Zagat.com released the results of a poll that found pizza is New York City's No. 1 on-the-go food. This, according to the New York Daily News.
The online poll asked people to rank six items designed to be wolfed while walking: pizza by the slice, hot dogs with red onions, soft pretzels with mustard, roasted chestnuts, shwarma (gyro) and Italian ices.What makes a slice so nice? "It's affordable, convenient and nutritious," says Todd Birnbaum, co-owner of Park Ave. South pizzeria Pinch, where slices are sold by the inch.
No big news there. Of course pizza is the Big Apple's biggest walk-and-eat food. What's more noteworthy to us at Slice is the second graf of this story: "More than a dozen pizzerias have opened this year. And at Palá, opening in November, press reps have been required to sign nondisclosure agreements about how the crust is made."
Geeze Louise! Nondisclosures for pizza? Ai yah!
As for why nondisclosures—according to Florence Fabricant's recent roundup of upcoming openings of note in the New York Times is this sentence on Palá: "All sorts of pizza technology is going into this place, which will pride itself on its crust and its Roman-style ingredients."
OPENING
Palá: 198 Allen Street
Pizza's runaway favorite in nosh-as-you-walk poll [New York Daily News]
A Tasting Menu of Restaurants to Come [New York Times]
Advertisement will not be printed.