Serving Lots Of Pizza At a Party? Reheat It With An Electric Griddle

Last night at our first book launch party, we served pizzas from Motorino. Not only did the pizzas have to come all the way from the East Village, they also had to be served continuously throughout a four hour long party. Compounding our difficulties was the fact that there was no operating oven in the space we were serving from. What were we to do?

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Post a Comment | Posted by J. Kenji López-Alt, November 15, 2011 at 1:15 PM
Tagged: Motorino, reheating slices

A Pizza Snob's Approach To Toppings

As a writer for the people, I often try and suppress my inner pizza snob. I try and pretend that all pies are created equal, and that there is goodness to everything on a crust. Sometimes I even manage to convince myself. After all, if tens of thousands of people enjoy eating buffalo chicken pizza, there's got to be something good about it that I'm missing, right? Well today, I'm letting diplomacy take a little breather and laying out a few of my hard and fast ground rules about pizza toppings.

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103 Comments | Posted by J. Kenji López-Alt, September 2, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Tagged: Antonio's, Asian pizza, Best Pizza, Co., Company, Motorino, NY Pizza Suprema, Paulie Gee's, Pizza, pizza weirdness, Pizzaiolo, Pizzeria Bianco, Star Tavern, Toppings, Zuppardi's Apizza

NYC Pizza Cultural Literacy

Here's the tweet that inspired this post:

Yes, @alexandrak, such a post does exist, and if your boyfriend finds what I'm about to write all TL;DR, he can check it out: The 10 Best Pizzas in NYC » That's a solid list, no doubt. And if his NYC pizza research stops there, I'm sure he'd be happy. But I think simply dropping a best-of list on a New York newbie does him a bit of a disservice. After all, he's moving to a pizza mecca. I think a little context is in order.

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41 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, August 5, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Tagged: Arturo's, Best Pizza, best pizza lists, best-of lists, Di Fara, Forcella, Joe and Pat's, Joe's Pizza, John's, Kesté, L and B Spumoni Gardens, Lombardi's, Louie and Ernie's, Lucali, Motorino, Paulie Gee's, Roberta's, Rosario's Italian Deli, Sal and Carmine's, Totonno's

Closings: Brooklyn Motorino Shuttered for Good by NYC Dept. of Building

Horribly tragic news on Eater New York today: The Brooklyn Motorino has been closed for good by the NYC Dept. of Building.

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14 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, August 1, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Tagged: Brooklyn, closings, Motorino, Motorino (Brooklyn), NYC, Williamsburg

The 10 Best Pizzas in NYC

When deciding on this list, certainly history, setting, and pedigree had an impact, but in the end, it was all about the flavor. We didn't care whether the joint was 80 years old, or 8 months old, as long as they served a tasty pie. And here they are. Our favorite pizzas in the city. A mix of the old, a mix of the new, a representation of most of the boroughs, a bit of something delicious for everyone.

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75 Comments | Posted by The Serious Eats Team, July 14, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Tagged: Artichoke Basille's, Best Pizza, best pizza in NYC, best-of lists, Bleecker Street Pizza, Di Fara, Joe & Pat's, Joe's on Carmine, L&B Spumoni Gardens, Louie & Ernie's, Motorino, New York, Patsy's, Paulie Gee's, Pier 76, Rubirosa Pizza and Bar, Sacco, Sal & Carmine's, Totonno's

9 NYC Pizzerias with Great Gardens

Let's talk about the weather. Though it's still a bit chilly and rainy here in NYC, the trees at least are blooming, which means truly glorious days are on their way. We at Slice can't think of a better way to mark the season than with a roundup of our favorite NYC pizzerias with garden seating.

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14 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, April 21, 2011 at 12:25 PM
Tagged: Adrienne's Pizzabar, Franny's, Graziella's, L and B Spumoni, Michael Angelo's II, Motorino, Motorino (Brooklyn), outdoor seating, Pizza Box, Roberta's, Saraghina

The Pieman's Craft: How to Make Heart-Shaped Pizza

That we at Slice love pizza is a given. So you know we love the various heart-shaped pizzas that appear this time of year. Our favorite cardioid pie is the one at NYC's Motorino, where it's become a Valentine's Day tradition. We asked chef-owner Mathieu Palombino to show us how it's done.

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3 Comments | Posted by The Slice Team, February 7, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Tagged: heart-shaped pizza, how-to, Mathieu Palombino, Motorino, Motorino (Manhattan), Motorino (Williamsburg), The Pieman's Craft, Valentine's Day, videos

Daily Slice: Motorino's Cherrystone Clam Pizza, East Village, NYC

October! National Pizza Month! This month we'll be bringing you Daily Slice, quick snapshots of slices and pies all of us at the Serious Eats empire have been enjoying lately. —The Mgmt. [Photograph: Sarah Wu/Motorino Facebook] Given how much we love Motorino around these parts, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the pizzeria would eventually appear in Daily Slice. Yes, it's a whole pie — composed of four slices. And, despite this feature's name, we never meant it to adhere slavishly to the slice-only format. Especially if that would keep us from mentioning this killer pizza. If you've followed...

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33 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, October 13, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Tagged: cherrystone clam pizza, clam pies, Daily Slice, East Village, Manhattan, Motorino, Motorino (Manhattan), Neapolitan-style, NYC, seafood pizza, white pies, wood-oven

The Pieman's Craft: Stretching Pizza Dough with Motorino's Mathieu Palombino

The pizzas at both the Brooklyn and Manhattan locations of Motorino are known for their puffy outer edge (what the Italians call the cornicione). We wondered how Motorino owner and head pieman Mathieu Palombino achieved this effect. So we visited with videocam in hand and captured it here.

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41 Comments | Posted by The Serious Eats Team, September 17, 2010 at 3:15 PM
Tagged: dough, how-tos, Mathieu Palombino, Motorino, stretching dough, technique, The Pieman's Craft, videos

'MetroMix' Picks Its Top 5 Neapolitan Pizzerias in NYC

MetroMix weighs in with its Top 5 Neapolitan pizzerias in NYC, and they are: Roberta's Kesté Pizza & Vino Franny's Motorino L'Asso There's not really a ranking or particular order. They are described as "essential," instead....

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7 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, June 14, 2010 at 6:00 PM
Tagged: best-of lists, Franny's, Kesté Pizza and Vino, L'Asso, Metromix New York, Motorino, Neapoletan-style, Roberta's