Greg Seider, the genial barkeep behind the widely adored cocktail lounge The Summit, and Mathieu Palombino, chef/owner if the white hot pizza joint Motorino, have teamed up to open a new cafe/bar called Prima in the East Village. (Ken Nye from Ninth Street Espresso is also on board.) The little restaurant opened last week serving a "fish-focused" dinner menu, as well as meticulously crafted cocktails and coffee.
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Photos: Summit Bar And Motorino Team Up For Seafood-Centric Prima
Leaning Tower Of Pizza Motorino Shuttered Forever In Williamsburg
Just days after we staged a North Brooklyn New Wave Neapolitan Pizza Battle Royale, major contender Motorino has been permanently knocked out of the competition by the Department of Buildings.
North Brooklyn New Wave Neapolitan Pizza Battle Royale
Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick have a confluence of excellent, new-school Neapolitan pizza. But where to go? We break it down.
Williamsburg's Leaning Of Tower Of Pizza Will Be Righted
The leaning tower of pizza—a.k.a. the home of the original Motorino—will be fixed, meaning a hipster building collapse will likely be averted. After letting the problem fester for a decade, last year the Department of Buildings started getting seriously concerned about the fact that the four-story building was slowly starting to lean onto Devoe Street. Now the buildings owner is getting around to propping the building up.
The Best Kid-Friendly East Village Pizza Joints
As you get older it seems to happen more and more often: Your friends start popping out babies and suddenly you never get to see them—let alone go out and eat with them. And really,for the first few years there isn't much you can do about it. But once the rugrats are in their late threes there is a compromise that doesn't include babysitters: Early dinners out...with children. Also known as one of the reasons that god invented pizza. Kids love it, grown-ups love it, and thanks to high-profile pizza joints popping up all over the past few years, foodies even love it. But where to go? Well, over the last year we've systematically visited nearly every pizza joint in the East Village with a four-year-old in tow and have found that when it comes to kids, not all pizza places are created equal. Still, here are five that shouldn't let you down.
Motorino Expands With Steakhouse, Shoolbred's Hates Forms
The Cooper Square Hotel news wasn't the only thing we learned at last night's Community Board 3 SLA committee meeting. In terms of food news the big story was the approval for a steakhouse from Motorino owner Mathieu Palombino at 241 Bowery. The team behind the concept, which interestingly includes an owner of the East Village Brazilian joint Esperanto, hopes to open the 72-seater within six months. But this being a complete buildout of a space currently used for restaurant supply, we'd guess more like a year.
[UPDATE] Motorino: The Leaning Tower of Pizza
[UPDATE BELOW] The original Williamsburg location of Motorino, one of the epicenters of the Neapolitan-style pizza earthquake that's rocked NYC in the past few years, is tipping over! For over 15 years, according to DOB records, the building on Graham Avenue that houses the ground floor pizzeria has been listing to the side. Now a tipster tells us that it's shifted so far out of plumb that the doors and windows don't properly close.
Eat Cetera: Drunken Cupcakes, A Midnight Feast and Sidwalk Eating
This week in Eat Cetera: A French feast at midnight at Landmarc, alcoholic St. Patrick's Day cupcakes from CupcakeStop, and dining outside is starting again!
Midweek Special: NYC Restaurant Review Roundup
After losing out to Phoenix's Pizzeria Bianco for the best pizza in America, Motorino gets a rave from the Times's Sam Sifton, who says the margherita pie has "perfect-pitch dough with exactly the correct ratios of tomato to cheese to surface area to char to bubble and flat. And "a winter-special pie of brussels sprouts and smoked pancetta, dressed with mozzarella, garlic and pecorino, is like something from a magic act... It is great and unsettling, far better than imagination would dictate."
Chef Mathieu Palombino, Motorino
After earning the adoration of the hipster masses with his killer Neapolitan-style pizza, Belgian-born chef Mathieu Palombino has recently opened his second Motorino location across the river in Manhattan. The East Village spot (49 East 12th Street) is cozy compared to the spacious original, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in charm and legend: It's the former home of beloved Una Pizza Napoletana, and with the lease Palombino got his hands on the restaurant's prized Acunto wood-burning oven, handcrafted in Naples.
Midweek Special: NYC Restaurant Review Roundup
This week Robert Sietsema at the Village Voice reviews Motorino, the wood-oven pizza place in Williamsburg named after a Vespa-like scooter. He says the prices are reasonable and the pies first rate: "Stippled with char, smoky, and slightly doughy, the marguerita ($10) stands up to any other I've tasted...Even more amazing is the Pugliese pie, name-checking the southern Italian region where many Brooklynites came from. This pizza deploys broccolini and sweet sausage, and who'd imagine bitter greens would make such a fab topping? These pies might be called 'back constructions' by a linguist: They re-import the true pies of Naples to New York 120 years after they first arrived, and then slap Italian-American ingredients on them."
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