Daily Slice: Ricotta Slice, Birdbath Bakery, Soho

The little slices at Birdbath in Soho are part pizza, part tart, but they're quite nice—delicate and flaky, like a flat square of croissant dough brushed with rich, cooked-down tomato sauce. The edges look as if they were cut with pinking shears, and there isn't any puff, but the crust is salted just enough and it's rich without being overwhelming.

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1 Comment | Posted by Maggie Hoffman, April 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM
Tagged: Birdbath Bakery, Daily Slice, Manhattan, NYC, Soho

New Pizza Style in NYC Uses Puff Pastry as Crust

Village Voice You know, I thought I had linked to this Village Voice blog post the day it came out in one of the daily(ish) Leftovers I do, but it looks like I didn't. Oh, well, I was going to give it its own post anyway, since it's totally worth it. The heart of the matter: Robert Sietsema has discovered a new pizza style in Manhattan at Birdbath Bakery: [Birdbath] has come up with a pizza based, not on the usual yeast- or sourdough-risen crust, but with a flaky puff pastry crust. The crust renders brittle and oily, and...

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6 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, May 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Tagged: Birdbath Bakery, East Village, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NYC, pizza styles, puff-pastry pizza, reviews, Robert Sietsema, Village Voice