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New York Post Roundup of Pizzerias About to Open

The sign is up at the East Village Motorino location (formerly Una Pizza Napoletana). [Photograph: Paulie Gee] The New York Post's Carla Spartos rounds up a number of pizzerias in the city that are slated to open soon (or soonish). If you've been reading Slice regularly, you'll recognize many of the names (Pulino's Bar and Pizzeria, Grimaldi's Manhattan, Motorino East Village, and Lucali II), but there are some new (to me) venues on the list: No. 28 Pizza Romano, a Roman-style branch of Greenwich Village's Neapolitan-styled No. 28; and a West Side branch of grilled-pizza outpost Accademia di Vino....

9 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, September 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Tagged: Accademia di Vino, No. 28 Pizza Romano, openings

Openings: Accademia di Vino

Over lunch, a Serious Eats colleague told me about the opening of Accademia di Vino. "What's that? Some kinda wine bar? Not interested," I said. "But it's got grilled pizza," she said. "Well, why diddincha say so?" One of the dudes behind this place—executive chef Kevin Garcia—came up through Al Forno, my colleague said, where he worked as something called a tournant, or a roundsman. Al Forno is, of course, the grilled-pizza mothership—the joint in Providence, Rhode Island, where George Germon came up the idea of slapping pizza dough on a grate over coals. Mr. Garcia also did a turn...

2 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, August 14, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Tagged: Accademia di Vino, grilled pizza, Manhattan, NYC, openings, UES