April 28, 2008
All Aboard New York City's New Pizza Bus Tour
Jersey based pizza fanatic Scott Wiener (pictured) may have found a way to turn his appetite into a career with his just-launched Pizza Tours of New York City. Every Sunday, Wiener will escort up to 32 ravenous adults on a pizza tasting odyssey to half a dozen pizzerias stretching from Lombardi’s on Spring Street to Louie & Ernie’s in the Bronx.
The licensed New York City tour guide is charging $55 a person for the privilege, which includes a plain slice at each pizzeria and the pleasure of Wiener’s enthusiastic company aboard a yellow school bus. As the erudite self-publisher of his own Pizza Journal, maybe Wiener can use his tour as an opportunity to settle the raging debate on why NYC pizza is widely considered the best on Earth.
And on weekdays Wiener will soon start leading a three hour walking tour of historic downtown pizzerias. Those tickets are $30; you can find out more info on his website, Scott’s Pizza Tours.
Photo of Scott Wiener via Dr Baloney.
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SO THERE NEXT TIME!
Great. Another fumes belching tour bus idling on my block.
$55 for six slices? And people complain about Di Fara's prices.
That actually sounds like it could be fun.
And filling.
Its time...
more annoying intrusions
add this new lunacy to the cupcake lines and gelato lines that already clutter up the sidewalks. Why can't these rubes just navigate Manhattan like the rest of us? If you need a tour operator to lead you to a decent slice of pizza, you are an idiot.
more emissions? very nice.
Great. So the people who don't need to be led around by their noses to find good pizza now have to deal with a school bus full of idiots swamping wherever they happen to be trying to get a slice. Whoopee.
I'd rather go on Kramer's tour.
Good luck parking a school bus on Spring Street!
I was lucky enough to be on the maiden voyage yesterday. Some of you seem to be confused...this tour is not only to go eat good pizza, but to learn about pizza history and the history of some of NYCs best pizzerias. There are even some surprise bonus stops. Yesterday, we stopped by a historic oven manufacturer. Also, Scott asks trivia questions on the bus where you can win some sweet prizes.
And by the way, parking the school bus was never a problem for all-star bus driver.
I'd rather suck in the bus' emissions than 'enthusiastic' Scott's.
Shouldn't some douche named Wiener be leading tours of a hot dog eating odyssey, anyway?
[10] you are a shill for the pizza-tour, fess up
A relative emailed me last year about a very similar Brooklyn pizza tour. THAT one stuck to the decidedly tourist-friendly destinations (like Grimaldi's and L & B Spumoni gardens) and avoided the weirder places where they might get bogged down. I can't see a tour bus *ever* planning to go to DiFara's, since you wouldn't want to schedule for a possible 3 hours in-and-out.
I see this one goes to Totonnos - good luck with that.
I sent in the link to Jen about the tour - I'm quoted in the article actually. My friend who knows Scott invited me, but I didn't know him before.
Scott made a point of letting us know the bus is a new model and among the greener busses they make these days.
He's a cool guy and he has it together, he knows the history of the food and of the people and places through history that contributed to the culture.
No need for so much vitriol against a guy who is sharing something he is passionate about.
Scott is an awesome guy and Truly knows what he's talking about when it comes to pizza. I can't wait to take the tour! We need more fun stuff like this in NYC. It might actually give the Tourists a chance to taste real pizza and stay away from Pizza Hut in Times Sq!
you know this is a rip off of the "A Slice of Brooklyn" pizza tour...right?
http://www.bknypizza.com/
lets try to be more original people, for f-ck's sake
What this guy said about Hoboken pizza is absurd. Benny Tudino's is the best pure slice joint in the New York metropolitan area.
I've also found that you're much more likely to get a good slice at any random spot outside of Manhattan than in.
Oh No! Riding around New York in a bus eating pizza! How horrible! If Princess Coldstare were driving the bus, and it were covered in denim, everyone would be on their knees behind Happy Endings to get reservations.
If I remember correctly, all the pizza establishments also sell beer. Having someone drive me around to drink beer and eat pizza. Yeah, I'm in.
@TimSPC: I agree that overall Benny Tudino's is pretty great, and when drunk the novelty of the huge slice never gets old. The only drawback is you have 1d6 chance of Vinnie Goombatz throwing up AfterShock onto your shoes.
Yeah, his quote about Hoboken is a little out of context. He spoke at length about pizza in Hoboken (where he said he lives) and I think he did talk about that one. I can't quote him, so I won't try.
I'm sorry, i promise to ride this NYC bus before i open my big fat Ginzo mouth and talk smack!
how could i hate on another man proliferating "the art of the slice"
salud!