Brooklyn Flea to Host Mobile Wood-Fired Pizza Oven

Posted by Adam Kuban, September 26, 2008 at 4:00 PM

The Brooklyn Flea, the Sunday hipster flea market in Fort Greene, will be home to a new food vendor this weekend. The blog Brownstoner, whose proprietor helps run the market, reports that a chef named "Dave" has built a mobile wood-fired pizza oven and will debut it this weekend at one of the food stalls there.

"Dave" built the brick oven on a small trailer not unlike the mobile pizza ovens I've seen online and IRL in other parts of the country. There's a fleet of them in the Pacific Northwest, an outfit upstate in Ithaca, and Ed Levine here at the office says he's seen one at the farmers' market in Chicago.

I was wondering when this pizza trendlet would hit New York City and whether it would even be possible, given what I'd imagine would be tough restrictions on wood fires. The thing about the other mobile, trailer-based pizza ovens in other cities, though, is that they operate at farmers' markets, where they can take advantage of the bounty within easy reach. Maybe once "Dave" pioneers the trailer-based pizza oven field here in Gotham, other pizza ovens will invade the city's various Greenmarkets. [via Eater]

Pizza Moto at Brooklyn Flea

Lafayette Avenue, between Clermont and Vanderbilt avenues (Fort Greene; map)

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Tags: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Flea, Fort Greene, mobile pizza ovens, NYC, Pizza Moto, pizza ovens, Wood-Oven

4 Comments:

No chimney? No insulation? I hope he knows more about pizza than he does about oven building.

d_m_u_n at 6:41PM on 09/26/08

I can't speak for the insulation, since we can't really see into the oven, but the chimney thing, I know from looking at plans of ovens online, that with certain sizes and shapes of ovens, they can go chimneyless, and smoke/air vents out the front at the top of the hole.

Adam Kuban at 11:16AM on 09/27/08

I made my first trip to Brooklyn Flea yesterday. I've never had better pizza off a flatbed trailer. Here are some shots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauliegee/sets/72157617345488360/

Here's a set I made from the Pizza Moto shots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauliegee/sets/72157617254410573/

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

pauliegee at 12:35PM on 04/26/09

Wow...i love it...it could make it's way to the city. Could you imagine...they should combine a kitchen trailer, mobile restroom trailer and a gutted travel trailer...total restaurant on wheels. Move it around the city and let everyone get a taste of the fare. I love brick oven pizza.

tshell at 2:17PM on 07/20/09

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