Entries tagged with 'DUMBO'
Posted by Adam Kuban, July 23, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Newsday reports that Grimaldi's was shut down earlier today by state officials over unpaid taxes. $150,000 in tax warrants, the paper says.
But the joint was back in business later in the afternoon, after owners paid up.
"We seized them" said [New York State Department of Taxation and Finance representative Tom] Bergin, refering to the legal process where state officials close the business to get the liens satisfied.
Begin said that a total of seven outstanding tax warrants had been filed against Patabbe Inc., which was doing business as Grimaldi's, since January 2006. Those warrants total about $84,000 in sales and withholding taxes, he said.
Repeat: They're back up and running again. Like nothing ever happened, kids. Like nothing ever happened ...
Posted by Adam Kuban, June 18, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Went to the NYC Food Film Festival last night and had a pretty good time. Festival co-organizer George Motz screened his short film Brooklyn Pizza, and the short documentary Pure and Simple, a day in the life of Una Pizza Napoletana, was also shown. Photos and such, after the jump.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, June 17, 2008 at 5:05 PM
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NYC Food Film Festival pizza component, al fresco in the parking lot next to Grimaldi's, 19 Old Fulton Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 (map).
Anthony Mangieri of Una Pizza Napoletana fame will be there.
When: 8 p.m., Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Cost: Free
Here's the complete line-up:
- Brooklyn Pizza: Motz's short, six-minute film is basically pizza porn, following the pie-making process from start to finish at the Coney Island Totonno's, Di Fara, and Grimaldi's
- Pure and Simple: A short documentary on Anthony Mangieri and his venerated Neapolitan-pie shop Una Pizza Napoletana. Directed by Fabrizia Galvagano and Julie Haslett, 6 minutes
- In Pignata: Calabrian Fireside Cooking: "Follows a Southern Italian farmer in her eighties through a typical morning on her farm as she ponders the loss of local food traditions." So this one's not exactly pizza, but it is Italian, so deal with it, sliceheads. Directed by Jessica Theroux, 24 minutes
Chairs will be set up in the parking lot for your comfort, and there will be a Grimaldi's tasting. More info at nycfoodfilmfestival.com.
See you there, homeslices.
Posted by Adam Kuban, May 23, 2008 at 3:00 PM
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Just got word from George Motz, one of the masterminds behind the NYC Food Film Festival, that the pizza component of this year's summer screenings will be held al fresco in the parking lot next to Grimaldi's, 19 Old Fulton Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 (map).
What better place than under the Brooklyn Bridge for a line-up of three films that starts with Motz's own short film Brooklyn Pizza?
When: 8 p.m., Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Cost: Free
Here's the complete line-up:
- Brooklyn Pizza: Motz's short, six-minute film is basically pizza porn, following the pie-making process from start to finish at the Coney Island Totonno's, Di Fara, and Grimaldi's
- Pure and Simple: A short documentary on Anthony Mangieri and his venerated Neapolitan-pie shop Una Pizza Napoletana. Directed by Fabrizia Galvagano and Julie Haslett, 6 minutes
- In Pignata: Calabrian Fireside Cooking: "Follows a Southern Italian farmer in her eighties through a typical morning on her farm as she ponders the loss of local food traditions." So this one's not exactly pizza, but it is Italian, so deal with it, sliceheads. Directed by Jessica Theroux, 24 minutes
Chairs will be set up in the parking lot for your comfort, and there will be a Grimaldi's tasting. More info at nycfoodfilmfestival.com.
Full disclosure: I'm friends with George and will be serving as a film judge for this year's NYC Food Film Festival.
Posted by Adam Kuban, January 3, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Brooklyn real estate blog Brownstoner gets a snap of soon-to-open Ignazio's Pizza (above) at 4 Water Street in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn. The blogs are already billing this as a "pizza war," given that Grimaldi's is within spitting distance, but we'll leave speculation on the shelf in favor of good old fashioned taste-testing once the new joint opens.
The owner is Louis Timero, born and raised in Bensonhurst but who moved to Hartford, Connecticut, to open the Luna Pizza mini chain in and around that city. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle ran a nice little profile on him in August of last year.
Posted by Adam Kuban, September 12, 2007 at 5:00 PM
A letter from a reader ...
Dear Adam,
I keep up with Slice via bloglines and it dawned on me that you should know my wedding story because it ended with fabulous Grimaldis!
Scott and I were married on Friday, July 13th in the city-owned part of Brooklyn Bridge Park. We invited a dozen guests and the Reverend Billy and his wife.
Dinner was fantastic and I wouldn't have had it any other way (I was a little nervous since it was my first time at Grimaldi's place).
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Posted by Adam Kuban, December 11, 2006 at 5:24 PM
Slice reader M.B. writes in:
Has anyone else noted the change of sausage at Grimaldi's, from slides of delicious sweet sausage with fennel seeds to crumbled bits of what tasted like the breakfast sausage I sent back last time I tried it at a diner? When I called to complain about it (last month—on a take-out pie), the person answering the call said, "So don't order sausage." I'm very disappointed.
Posted by Adam Kuban, October 6, 2006 at 12:26 PM
This just reached our desk at Slice HQ:
Breaking! We are ordering pizza for lunch at our office today — no pepperoni! This email was just circulated to our office.
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Conversation: No Pepperoni
Subject: No Pepperoni
Grimaldis is out of pepperoni! Salami will be taking its place today, hope that's OK with everyone.
Posted by Adam Kuban, April 4, 2006 at 2:57 PM
If you've ever gone out to eat with someone who blogs about food or uses a photo-sharing website like Flickr—or, worse, both—then you're all too familiar with this refrain: "Wait, wait, lemme getta shot first!"
One camera-equipped person is bad enough, but what happens when a group of Flickr-ers has a weekend meetup at Grimaldi's? A picture (right) is worth a thousand words.
See the digital contact sheets from their day of slice stalking: Baobee, cknlomein, eggrollboy, Plaid Ninja, Roboppy
Photograph from Baobee on Flickr
Posted by Adam Kuban, January 17, 2006 at 6:33 PM
By the way, I got on a jury last week.
My fears of sequesterization ("If the jury's sequestered, this site will fester") did not come to pass. That's not how the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York rolls.
At lunch today I ate at Fascati Pizza. It's good, but it left me hankerin' for some of that hot coal-oven action just blocks away at Grimaldi's.
Objection! Relevance?
Sustained.
Allow me to redirect.
I will prove to you, ladies and gentlemen, beyond a reasonable doubt, two things:
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Posted by Adam Kuban, October 4, 2005 at 12:00 PM
An email from a reader ...
To the editors:
I really enjoy your site. Thought I'd give back a bit and send in a report from the field.
The other day I went to Totonno's and Grimaldi's. I'd wanted to try both places for a long time, and since I had the time, I couldn't resist going for it with both. I had one large, half-cheese and half–roasted pepper at both places.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, April 26, 2004 at 1:47 PM
Oh, it's such a perfect day ...
What do you get when you mix a beautiful Saturday afternoon, a visiting food-loving Aussie (by way of London), and a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge? With the proper catalyst (in this case, a Slice editor), your result is lunch at Grimaldi's Pizzeria.
Located at 19 Old Fulton Street, almost directly under the historic bridge, Grimaldi's is the place to stop for a post-journey meal (provided you walked from Manhattan to Brooklyn). And so it was with our weekend excursion to this coal-oven shop in the, uh, Brooklyn Heights? DUMBO? Vinegar Hill? section of the BK.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, December 9, 2003 at 8:00 AM
One of last night's reruns of Law & Order on TNT contained a Grimaldi's reference. In the episode "Tabula Rasa," detectives Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) and Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) are investigating a suspect who claims he's never been to New York before. After obtaining his credit-card receipts, they find he has visited Grimaldi's—alone, no less.
Lieutenant Van Buren: [reading list of card charges] United Airlines, TKTS, Museum of Modern Art Bookstore, Barneys, Grimaldi's Italian Restaurant.
Briscoe: Grimaldi's in Brooklyn?
Van Buren: You know another one? Charge was for twelve bucks and some change.
Briscoe: [with the wisecrack] You can't feed a family of four mice on that.
Van Buren: So he was by himself.
Curtis: Guy's never been to New York before and he manages to find the best pizza in the five boroughs?
Van Buren: Right. Check it out.
The scene then cuts to Grimaldi's, where Briscoe and Curtis grill someone at the pizzeria. (It's not Patsy, that's for sure. He might be the guy who bought the place from Mr. Grimaldi, but I don't know what he looks like.)
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