Entries tagged with 'Di Fara'
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Di Fara Pizza Smackdown
"I don’t particularly care to walk in to a place and watch a guy past his prime “whip” up pizza and (what seemed like the case the last time I was there) who looks bored and careless as to what he was doing. As I mentioned earlier, consistency is something I look for, and the only thing I find consistent about his pizza is that he doesn’t make them all the same. ;) " —Nicky M., on Di Fara How’s it going, Slice? I will give you a little history on myself, and offer up my recommendation. My grandfather had two...'Details' Magazine Pizza Roundup
Pity poor Ed Levine. When his workday doesn't involve ordering one of each doughnut at a well-regarded New York City doughnuttery, he gets to eat pizza from some of the country's best pizzerias and write about it for Details magazine. His findings cover some familiar ground to readers of Slice and of Mr. Levine's 2005 book PIzza: A Slice of Heaven, but there are some new entries to be savored. Pizzeria Bianco [623 East Adams Street, Phoenix AZ 85004; map] "The sauce tastes like a distillation of the ripest tomatoes."Di Fara[1424 Avenue J, Brooklyn NY 11230; map] "... a Di...From the Mailbag: 'The Definitive Top 10 List'
An interesting item hit the Slice inbox yesterday. OK guys, put this in your pie and smoke it! A couple of caveats: The list isn't quite as definitive as it claims to be, as it is missing any critical analysis of Staten Island, Queens, and Bronx joints. When you guys post this on the site (front page, please), perhaps you may want to refer to it as "The Definitive Manhattan and Brooklyn Top 10 List." We've all been to these places enough times to know what's going on and who's coming with their A game and who isn't. Seltzerboy, as...Di Fara Pizza Roundup, Part 2: Back to Di Fara
In my roundup of Di Fara posts the other day, I completely forgot to mention this one: Back to Di Fara, by writer Peter Cherches. This is indeed a huge oversight, as it's one of the best musings I've read lately on Dom DeMarco and his art. It also complements Jason Perlow's post that rhapsodizes on the square slices at Di Fara. On his blog, Word of Mouth, Mr. Cherches details a homecoming trip to Midwood, Brooklyn, to try a few slices after a near 30-year Di Fara–less gap. His take? The regular slices are OK, but not as great...Di Fara Pizza Roundup
photograph by Jason Perlow Two Di Fara items of note for you today ... First is from Off the Broiler, which is where the above photo comes from: On all my visits to Difara in the past, we’ve always gone for the regular pizza pies, and haven’t eaten anything else, such as his Italian-American specialities and the elusive Square Pie — which is sold sometimes as slices but not nearly as frequent as the regular pies — that takes nearly an hour itself to prepare, because it has to be proofed, the pizza shell has to be baked separately (which...Di Fara Pizza: 'Why the hurry? Life's too short'
In an earlier post, I complained about the wait at Di Fara, prompted by a recent thread on Chowhound. Slice's city editor, Seltzerboy, responded in the comments section of that post. But his words are too good to be buried there. Dig ... --Ed. WORDS BY SELTZERBOY .::. Di Fara is not the problem. It's the victim of a much larger problem. Too often, pizza is viewed as fast food. Di Fara is anything but fast food. In pretty much any restaurant, people are used to having their food delivered in less than 30 minutes. When someone says a restaurant...Let's Take Up a Collection
Not to be a pizza weblog that complains about something without offering a solution, we propose to spearhead a collection to buy Dom DeMarco a Take-A-Number system. Who's in? $550 for: Two-Digit Indicator with bar-segmented numbers and black housing Wireless Receiver with mounting bracket Electrical Adapter plug-in Set 1P 2 Remotes with Velcro D900 Ticket Dispenser, red/gray Counter Stand for Dispenser Take-A-Number Sign for Dispenser (English) 6 Rolls T90 Tickets (4,000 tickets per roll) Four thousand tickets per roll? That should get Dom through half a day. Take A Number 2-Digit Wireless Ready Set Kit [Take a Number, Inc.]...DiFaraPizza.com
A Slice reader alerted us to a looooong thread on Chowhound about the interminable wait and dropped orders at Di Fara. It was started by this post: There is no way I will get my husband to go back to try again, but I would like to know if anyone else has had this kind of experience, in case I make a visit with other friends. Were we wrong to order a whole pie? Were we wrong to order mushrooms? I hadn't gotten this from previous postings, but is this another case of a grumpy owner who decides that he...David Blaine Loves Di Fara
Stunt magician David Blaine loves Di Fara Pizza. He must have gone there after his latest trick, in which he submerged himself in a water-filled bubble: While in the sphere, Blaine said, "I passed the time by pretending to be an astronaut, floating freely in space." He dreamed of his favorite restaurant, Di Fara's Pizzeria in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, where he goes after every stunt. And here's from a wonderful interview Jeff Vandam did with Di Fara proprietor Dom Demarco for the New York Times: "You want to know something? A lot of people, they pay more for...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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