Popular food blogger Orangette dropped some awesome news on her site early last week: Her husband is opening a pizzeria. It's in their Seattle neighborhood, too, which I assume is within walking distance of their home. How cool would that be, to own a pizzeria and be able to walk to it? Here's what she says about his pizzamania:
[Brandon] is also obsessed with pizza. As a grade-schooler, he used to go to a pizzeria near his parents' house in New Jersey and pepper the owner with questions about dough and mozzarella. When I met him, he lived on the Upper West Side [of New York City], but he trekked out to the middle of Brooklyn at least once a week to wait patiently in line at Di Fara. Last year, he agreed to drive a car from San Antonio to Los Angeles just so he could try the pizza at Mozza, and he took an overnight trip to Phoenix for the sole purpose of eating at Pizzeria Bianco. So when he told me that he wanted to make pizza, it didn’t exactly surprise me. It may have scared me a little, but it didn't surprise me.
The place, which doesn't seem to have a name yet, is slated to open in spring, and judging by the 200-some comments on Orangette Molly's post, her readers will be out in full force to support it. Good luck, Brandon and Molly!
The pizzeria has to be good, if the husband is from NJ, grew up eating pizza in Brooklyn and is crazy to stand in a 4 hour line at Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix.
He has a head start!
Good luck to them. She has a great blog.
Stacey Snacks
"The pizzeria has to be good, if the husband is from NJ, grew up eating pizza in Brooklyn and is crazy to stand in a 4 hour line at Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix."
By being creepy and doing some detective work (googling the name of the place reflected in the window) I see it's going to be in Ballard. Sweet! Being a NJ native now living in Seattle, we sorely need more pizza! I'm very excited about this.
Molly and Brandon are great. I've been reading Orangette for over a year. They met because of his recipe search led him to her blog, and now are living the foodie dream! Plus she has a book coming out in March!
judging by my faith in orangette's recipes and HER faith in brandon, i have total confidence that this place will be great. too bad i've never been to seattle! ;)
if the pizza is modeled after di fara's in midwood, brooklyn, then i can only hope he will consider replicating dominic's gorgeous and ginormous calzones that are the size of a large pie :)
@gwhiz Dom's calzones may be big, but nothing tops the fried ham and cheese beauties at The House of Pizza & Calzones on Union Street in Carroll Gardens. Only the calzones a few blocks away at Lucali come close. Even if I have to bring my own ham.
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9 Comments:
Brandon walks the walk.
I like that added benefit of having a popular food blogger for a wife.
Ciao,
Paulie Gee
pauliegee at 7:46PM on 12/03/08
The pizzeria has to be good, if the husband is from NJ, grew up eating pizza in Brooklyn and is crazy to stand in a 4 hour line at Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix.
He has a head start!
Good luck to them. She has a great blog.
Stacey Snacks
Stacey Snacks at 8:30PM on 12/03/08
"The pizzeria has to be good, if the husband is from NJ, grew up eating pizza in Brooklyn and is crazy to stand in a 4 hour line at Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix."
Truer words were never spoken Stacey Snacks.
Ciao,
Paulie Gee
pauliegee at 8:39PM on 12/03/08
By being creepy and doing some detective work (googling the name of the place reflected in the window) I see it's going to be in Ballard. Sweet! Being a NJ native now living in Seattle, we sorely need more pizza! I'm very excited about this.
cakespy at 11:39PM on 12/03/08
Molly and Brandon are great. I've been reading Orangette for over a year. They met because of his recipe search led him to her blog, and now are living the foodie dream! Plus she has a book coming out in March!
LiveToEat at 12:06PM on 12/04/08
I'm sooo excited for this! I definitely plan to go to it when I visit my brother in Seattle!
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 10:51AM on 12/05/08
judging by my faith in orangette's recipes and HER faith in brandon, i have total confidence that this place will be great. too bad i've never been to seattle! ;)
megannesta at 2:44PM on 12/05/08
if the pizza is modeled after di fara's in midwood, brooklyn, then i can only hope he will consider replicating dominic's gorgeous and ginormous calzones that are the size of a large pie :)
gwhiz at 12:55PM on 03/30/09
@gwhiz Dom's calzones may be big, but nothing tops the fried ham and cheese beauties at The House of Pizza & Calzones on Union Street in Carroll Gardens. Only the calzones a few blocks away at Lucali come close. Even if I have to bring my own ham.
Ciao,
Paulie Gee
pauliegee at 8:14PM on 03/30/09