Was White Castle all booked up when you went to make your Valentine's Day reservation? Fear not, fast food loving Romeo, Pizza Hut has got you covered. Because if you have $10,010 to drop on a proposal, obviously Pizza Hut should be your first choice. Is that what you are thinking right now? That there is probably nowhere else your future bride would rather be proposed to than over a lukewarm $10 pizza? Seriously dude, you can't think of one better place? Fine. Let's do this...
Got $10,000? Pizza Hut Has The Pizza Box For YOU To Propose Over
Video: Giants Devour Special Delivery Of Long Island Pizza
With the Giants getting ready for a very unusual Super Bowl tomorrow in Indianapolis, it is only fitting that it took a very unusual set of circumstances for them to get their beloved and traditional Friday after-practice Long Island pizza there. Umberto's was given a police escort to LaGuardia Airport yesterday in order to fly out to Indy to deliver 15 pies to the team. And the millionaires seemed to enjoy the fact that greenhouse gases were pumped into the atmosphere so they could enjoy lukewarm pizza, despite a lack of salsa.
Umberto's Pizza Gets Police Escort To LaGuardia For Giants Lunch Delivery
Since the Giants devour pizzas from Long Island's Umberto's after every Friday practice, you wouldn't think a little four hour flight would stop them while they're in Indianapolis for the Super Bowl, right? Except the Giants aren't going to be returning to New York for their weekly meal, they're having it delivered to them—never underestimate the power of superstition when it comes to the sports set. But what's really absurd is that the pizzas just got a police escort to LaGuardia Airport!
Pizza Is Still A Vegetable: U.S. Announces New School Lunch Rules
Finally, the United States has overhauled school lunch rules for the first time in 15 years, forcing cafeterias to do things like "Offer fruits and vegetables as two separate meal components" to help with the childhood obesity epidemic. Thanks goodness Big Pizza, Big Salt and Big Potato succeeded in getting pizza and French fries classified as vegetables.
Would You Try Pizza-Flavored Beer?
Regular beer pairs just fine with pizza, but if you really want to step up your gluttony game, you're going to want to invest in some Pizza Beer, which is something that exists and people pay for. Yes, it tastes like pizza.
Video: Is Every Pizza Slinger Secretly An Amazing Opera Singer?
Oh sure, science hasn't quite been able to create real life Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles yet, but they've made amazing strides in creating other hybrid animals, such as Zebroids (horse/zebra), Ligers (lion/tigers) and Wholphins (whale/dolphin). Judging by the awesome video below, it seems a new hybrid is already in existence: The Opizzera (opera singer/pizza slinger).
No. 7 And Pulino's Alums Bring Crazy-Topped Pizza To Crown Heights With Pete Zaaz
Just a few blocks from the Brooklyn Museum of Art, an ambitious new pizza parlor, Pete Zaaz, breathes new life into an old world classic with its toppings-driven creations. Co-owners/Chefs Peter Entner, formerly of No. 7 under Chef Tyler Kord, and Glen Hudson, formerly of Pulino's, combine a simple crust with some not-so-simple toppings for a truly inspired outcome.
Staten Island Pizza School Offering $2,800, Five Day Course In Advanced Pizza-Making
Back in the day, you could learn how to make pizza with a minimum-wage job in a dead-end suburban town. But these days, if you want to do it right, you apparently have to sign up for a five-day, $2,800 "Pizza School" conveniently located in...Staten Island.
Food Porn: Pizza Gets "Sexy" For L'asso's 2012 Calendar
Is 2012 the year that pizza got...weird? We ask because today not only were we introduced to the amazing, insane, wiener-chopping Pizza Boomerang—if you haven't watched that yet, just click the link and get to it, we'll wait—and now we find ourselves trying to figure out what in the world to make of the 2012 pinup calendar from LES pizza joint L'asso. Look, we love pizza as much as the next blog, but even we are not sure about taking a pie on as a lover...
Video: Pizza So Good It'll Cut Your Wang Off
American food companies, you need to step up your commercial game. Not only are Spanish-language viewers outside the U.S. getting celebrity-filled fast food spots but they are also getting magic. And by magic we mean epic, two-and-a-half minute online spots for pizza in the shape of a boomerang that includes a shirtless man using a microwave on the moon, magic balls, pizza-assisted suicide prevention, cheesey music and, oh yeah, a man's penis severed by a pizza thrown from space. Trust us on this one, okay?
Is Di Fara Moving To New Jersey?
The rumor mill is buzzing today with the news that legendary Midwood pizzeria Di Fara, recently recovered from a nasty run-in with the DOH, might be expanding to New Jersey. Could it be true?
The Year In Food: Doughnut Tickets, Hand-Pulled Noodles, Beer And More
Instead of putting out another year-end "Best Chefs" or "Best Restaurants" or "Best Burger" or "Best Handmade Artisanal Hay-Wrapped Compound Butter" list, we've decided to take a look back at a handful of our favorite food stories from 2011, superlative-free. So without further ado, we present the year in noodles, food crime, beer and more.
New Grimaldi's Opens With Lines Around The Block
Yesterday, we were quite happy when word came that the city Buildings Department had given approval for Grimaldi's to install a coal-fired oven in their new Front Street DUMBO location, ending a month-long work standoff. And they wasted no time reopening, with lines around the block Saturday afternoon: "The Earth tilted back on its axis today. Long lines return at new Grimaldi's, all the way to the future Juliana's," tweeted FultonFerry.
Grimaldi's Gets City Approval For Coal Oven!
The Grimaldi's Pizza relocation saga has come to a happy ending: the city Buildings Department has given approval for Grimaldi's to install a coal-fired oven in their new DUMBO location. “The pie will be the same, maybe a little better,” owner Frank Ciolli told the Post.
Grimaldi's Has Left The Building
Well, folks, it seems like the long, sad saga of Grimaldi's Pizza has hit a dead end today, with the original space looking like it's almost certainly shuttered and no re-opening date for the famed pizzeria's new digs next door in sight.
When Life Hands You Meyer Lemons... Make Pizza & Pie
Every winter Fresh Direct offers up bags of Meyer Lemons for just $2.99 each, and every year we find a new way to use them in the kitchen. The lemon is sweeter and lower in acid than other lemons, with a thinner peel. Here are some recipes we've tried out this year:
Former Original Ray's Pizza Will Be A New Pizza Place And...A Spa?
The real, original Ray's Pizza on Prince Street near Little Italy, which served its last slice in October, is being split into two separate businesses and will reopen next year, DNAinfo reports. Those businesses? Another pizza place and a spa, so you can get your greasy cheese-stained lip waxed all in one place.
Where Is The Ultimate Pizza Neighborhood In NYC?
Since the dawn of humanity, uptowners have battled downtowners, and east siders have fought brutally against west siders, to retain the title of champion pizza-eating neighborhood of New York. Today, the New York City Economic Development Corporation has released the statistics that can finally put this battle to rest, declaring the areas in each borough with the highest number of pizza establishments. And the winners are...
Famous Ray's Pizza Being Replaced By Famous Original Ray's Pizza
Regular New York pizza eaters are familiar with a variety of Rays: Ray's Pizza, Famous Ray's Pizza, Famous Original Ray's Pizza, and even the occasional "World-Famous Original Ray's Pizza," too. So when the Famous Ray's on 6th Avenue and 11th Street in Greenwich Village closed in October, not all slice-hounds were terribly concerned. And why should they be? As it turns out, Famous Ray's is being reborn as Famous Original Ray's. Will anyone be able to tell the difference?
Police Pilfer Peckish Protesters' Pizza At Precinct!
A group of protesters arrested for blocking traffic yesterday during a World AIDS Day civil disobedience action near City Hall say they were not only denied dinner while being booked at the 7th Precinct, but that police also ate two pizzas that were specifically ordered for them by their supporters. This is already the second pizza pilfering scandal to rock the NYPD in as many years; last time it was the "hipsters" who suffered. In this latest incident, police allegedly encouraged the detained activists' supporters to order the pizza.
Grimaldi's: Not Dead Yet!
The good times go on at Grimaldi's! Though the beloved coal-oven pizzeria in Brooklyn was supposed to have closed up shop and moved next door earlier this week—what with their lease ending—that has been postponed for the time being, as you can see from the photo above, taken just after noon today.
New Domino's "Game" Will Train America's Idle Workforce (To Order Pizzas)
Finally, a chance to play a video game and order unhealthy fast food at the same time! See, when it isn't co-opting the word "artisan" beyond recognition and putting out temporary Facebook games meant to briefly induce '80s nostalgia it seems the Domino's chain is dabbling in iPad game development. Finally, a chance to revisit our lost youth working at a fast food restaurant—and without having to bother getting a work permit! And yes, the free game will let you order yourself a pie of your own creation. Sigh.
Pizza Shocker: Grimaldi's Is Being Replaced By The Original Grimaldi
What could be a classic pizza war is about to start brewing down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass! Last week we learned that the legendary Grimaldi's was moving around the corner from its longtime DUMBO space after a rent dispute with its landlord. The next day the Post talked to the landlord, who revealed he was keeping the restaurant's coal oven and promised a "very popular pizza establishment" would be moving in. Damn but he wasn't lying! Turns out that no less than 80-year-old pizza king Patsy Grimaldi is returning to the Brooklyn pizzeria where he made his name!
Di Fara Is Back In Business After DOH Drama
Pizza and waiting-forever-for-pizza lovers, rejoice! Di Fara pizzeria in Midwood has officially re-opened, following a nasty little spat with the Health Department over some less-than-savory conditions in the legendary restaurant.
Di Fara Pizza Prepares For Epic Battle Against DOH
The widely loved Di Fara pizzeria in Midwood is preparing to launch an epic battle against the Health Department, who forced the restaurant to shutter last week in the face of 67 violation points. And there will be blood! Sort of.
Grimaldi's Closes DUMBO Location Nov 28, Opens Next Door Nov 29
The DOH shuttering of Di Fara isn't the only big news in Brooklyn pizza today. On November 28 another staple of the Brooklyn pie-scene will be closing its doors forever...and reopening next door. People: It is the end of Grimaldi's as we know it!
Have A Slice Of Thanksgiving Early With A Thanksgiving Pizza
Yesterday we offered an easy guide to having a lowbrow Thanksgiving with all the 'fixins. But now a pizzeria in Midtown has gone and made that point moot. Because how can you go lowerbrow than Thanksgiving Pizza? The pie, by Pizza by Cer Te, features "turkey meatballs, mashed potatoes with giblet gravy, butternut squash, and cranberries" and according to Midtown Lunch it is actually edible?
Pizza Now Counts As A Vegetable, According To Congress
Great news for the youth of America: the government, which may very well be run by cheese-loving 12-year-olds, has decided that pizza totally counts as a vegetable.
Herman Cain's Accuser Wants To Respond To His Sexual Harassment Denials
GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain is currently the subject of an awful "witch hunt." Yes, he may have been accused of sexual harassment by two different women during his tenure at The National Restaurant Association in the late 90s. But Cain has said that he's never sexually harassed anyone, and never came to a "settlement" either. Sure an "agreement," may have been reached to pay one of the women $35,000—a year of her salary—but remember the late 90s, with all its "free love" and "Macarena?" Now, the woman who accused Cain of misconduct and took the severance pay wants to speak out, but is barred from doing so by the terms of her agreement.
Two Boots Debuts Vegan Pie For Vegan Month
As you may or may not know, November is apparently Vegan Month and today is World Vegan Day. And while you may not have known it, that fact was not lost on the pizzaiolos over at Two Boots. The popular cornmeal pizza chain today has launched a new pie for November only: the "V For Vegan." Featuring Daiya non-dairy cheese, artichokes, shitakes, red onions, and a criss-cross of basil and red pepper pestos, it even sounds pretty tasty.

