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The 'New York Times' on Anna Maria Pizza

Posted by Adam Kuban, September 12, 2006 at 2:11 AM

This quick take on Williamsburg pizzeria Anna Maria (the one just north of the Bedford Avenue L Train station) has a lot of good quotes and nice imagery in it. Among them, a nice summation of the unspoken ways in which a veteran pizzaman keeps his customers shuffling through quickly:

George [Acosta], 49, has been in the pizza trade since he came to New York 30 years ago. He ran Sorrento’s in the East Village for 11 years, naming it after a sepia photograph his grandfather gave him of the craggy Italian seaside terraces. And Anna Maria? “From a lot of Anna Marias in the neighborhood,” he says.

“I always look for an expression,” he says, describing his line-moving style. “It’s an instruction I give. ‘Next please!’ It applies to everyone, to the old man, the homosexual, the metrosexual.”

Do click through for some more priceless quotes.

An ‘Expression’ of Food, Brooklyn Style [New York Times]

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