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If you consider yourself a New York pizza lover, there are a couple dozen pizzerias you must try before you can even pretend to know of what you speak. You may have heard that Patsy’s of East Harlem serves a floppy, lifeless slice. But throngs of loyal fans have lived and died by Patsy’s for decades, so if you want to talk intelligently about the pizza in this town, you have to go and decide for yourself. Some critics claim that John’s is just a shell of its former self. Yet there is a line (of tourists) out the door almost every night. So you’ve got to get in line and taste it for yourself before you make any judgments.
Totonno's Pizzeria Napolitano of Coney Island is one of those places. Some contend that Totonno's is nothing special. Then there are people who make pilgrimages to Neptune Avenue from every corner of the globe for Totonno. I count myself amongst those who consider Totonno's one of the quintessential New York thin crust pies in all the five boroughs.
Even though they’ve opened a couple of locations in Manhattan, I always eat my Totonno's pie down in Coney Island. I love the smell of the pizza wafting out the door as it mixes with the smell of the Atlantic in the air and the grease and exhaust from the auto body shops on the block. It is a beautiful, uniquely Brooklyn experience. Also, I always get a kick out of watching Cookie shouting un-pleasantries at her staff and customers in her thick outer borough accent.
Totonno’s pizza is delectable. Usually, pizzerias have one thing they do particularly well. The sausage is what’s perfect at Louie and Ernie’s. The sauce is the key component of a slice at New Park. But at Totonno's, everything is absolutely great. The cheese, the crust, the sauce, even the olive oil are all remarkable. The entire pie is a perfect balance of simple, fresh ingredients. It is everything New York pizza should, and could, be.
Pizza, especially in this city of 8 million people with 8 million tastes, is an intensely personal thing. I happen to think Totonno's is one of the best. But you should know, I’ve tried Grimaldi’s and DiFara a few times each, and I wasn’t really impressed. However, I can see why people put those pizzerias on their top ten lists. I suggest heading down to Coney to see why Totonno's is on mine.
Totonno Pizzeria Napolitano, 1524 Neptune Avenue, 718-372-8606
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Grimaldi's, Difara's nothing special? No offense buddy, but you know shit about pizza. Pizza "is an intensely personal thing"? Wrong again. Pizza is a science that CAN be perfected--it just hasn't been yet. I'm not the only one who puts Grimaldi's/DiFara's 1/2--the dozens of Zagat's reviewers and thousands of New Yorkers agree. There's nothing personal about it--you're dead wrong.
And to top if off, you have the gall, the fucking gall, to put a review of deep dish pizza on your site. That is not pizza, it's a cheese pie.
Go back to fucking Chicago where everyone else lives with no taste in their goddamn mouths. Stop writing about fucking pizza. For Christ sake, if people from outside NY read this drivel you put on your site they'd come to this city and think pizza was crap.
Get with the program, realize that thousands upon thousands of people disagree--and then are intelligent enough to put their disagreements in a mathematical, three step Zagat's equation. Fuck you. Go to Domino's and get an anchovy and cunt meat lovers pizza. Get some fucking taste and don't you goddamn dare write a word about pizza ever fucking again.
I think Totonno's is among the best, certainly as good as Grimaldi's.
apt certainly needs to remove the pizza from his/her ass.
But that zagat's equation comment makes me think you're being facetious. If you were trying to be funny, it was over the top. If you were serious... there are more important things to get passionately pissed off about. Chill, mofo.
"there are more important things to get passionately pissed off about."
You know, cate, if that's your attitude, then fuck off and eat whale blubber in an igloo. You don't deserve to eat pizza: the heavenly nectar, ambrosia of the Gods. The world has gone mad. Stupid twats are now dedicating their lives to writing about food but who 1) can't write, and 2) have no taste. Jesus chicken in a basket Christ. Don't fucking tell me there are more "important things" when you're the same stupid asshole posting shit on this site about Pizza. There's some immigrant dying to be in NY, waiting at the border, and it's fucks like you, cate, who are taking their space. And shit, I bet they'll at least appreciate good pizza! Get the fucking door cate! It's Dominos, the taste police, and your motherfucking eviction notice.
As for Dave's comment, perhaps. I can see some marginal differences between the two, that when construed in a more favorable light, could put Totonno's on top. I personally don't think so, but when dealing with narrow statistical wedges at a pizza level that high, it becomes very difficult to achieve unanimity.
To preempt "Hey, give me another helping of dogshit" cate, my comment does NOT mean that there's something PERSONAL about the difference between Totonno's and Grimaldi's/DiFara's. It simply means that at such a high tier, we're inherently limited by the very act of our own observation, like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. BUT THERE IS A SINGLE TRUTH, A SINGLE GREATEST PIE, SOMEWHERE, AND ALL OF MANKIND HAS A RESPONSIBLITY TO FIND OUT WHERE IT IS. It's fucking assholes like you, cate, who are slowing down the progress of all humanity. Do the world a favor and choke on your next slice of Pizza Hut.
holy shit, viva la revolucion!
International Pizza Fascists!
Apt,
I was skeptical about your arguement at first, but you've convinced me. I think it was because your writing was so good.
Thanks, Apt. I needed a good laugh!
Dominos has Anchovy on their toppings list?
That's news to me.
Pizza another 10 cent food that's overrated in NYC.
The owners are laughing at you while they're making money hand over fist.
You think a liquor license is a quick way to print money, try selling pizzas. Goldmine.
Apt/aka Vanbruntboy, (the psychosis and condemnatory tone makes it clear it's you from insane comments past)
You are sick and you need help. I am so sorry that you were brutally abused as a child and have not sought out help. I hope that you get to a good psychologist as soon as possible before someone else on this website is a victim of your lunacy and ridiculous comments.
well, he's basically right.
Hey Apt, why don't you tell us where you like to eat pizza. Maybe you're right, but it doesn't help if you don't give us your point of reference. Or maybe you just got too doped up and burned a hole in your skidmarked sweatpants and needed somewhere to take your anger out.
Apt,
Thanks for the laugh. Your little sissy act, you know, the act where some dumbass tries to look tough by writing classless, expletive-laden nonsense because he has a two inch penis, and was ass-raped by more than one male relative? Yeah, well you made me laugh. You're pretty funny for someone who likes getting it in the back door.
Since you like taking it in the sphincter, I deduce that you don't know much about good food. So YOU need to shut the fukc (I misspelled that intentionally, you bottom) up, you little bitch.
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