From Brooklyn, the $5.00 pizza slice......

I love me some Sbarro's.

 

There are actually some good Pizza Huts in Kansas, at least they were a decade or so ago before I moved away. Tiny towns such as Osborne, Lincoln, Plainville have some of the original shops from before it became a huge global chain. I'd wager many of them are run by the same families that ran them 30 years ago and they haven't changed much.

It was always amazing to me how much better the pizza was in Osborne, Kan., than in some bigger town that had a brand new Pizza Hut. And the Pizza Hut's here on the east coast don't even begin to compare.

 

I can't stand Pizza Hut pizza in general. But there was one down the street from my flat in London. And while it wasn't amazing, it was all right and worked when I was craving pizza.

 

Yeah, I actually ate at one in Valencia, Spain, and found it to do the job quite nicely.

 

Puff, puff, pass, dude.

 

You wouldn't pay five bucks for a decent entree?

 

It don't have bourbon in it or nothin'?

 

This. Couple of your friends + Night of beer pong + XXL order of Pokey Stix = Perfection.

 

Niiiice.

 

i just read the first post and had to chime in before reading on:

i was lucky enough to grow up within a few blocks of difara's. it is ABSOLUTELY the best pizza i've ever had -- by far. in recent years i've even had my dad -- still in brooklyn -- bring a sicilian pie from difara's out with him and my mom when they visit us in the 'burbs.

both the round and sicilian are extraordinary, with all the ingredients so described in the piece. and dominick makes each pizza by himself, which creates loooong waits.

but my dad called me earlier to make sure i'd seen the piece. then he informed us no more pies for the shockeys -- the wait is too long and price too high.

despite the daughter's denial in the article, the leap up to 5 bucks a slice is indeed due to dom now opening the store five days. his rent is enormous so to stay in biz 5 days a week he had to boost the price to a mind-boggling amount.

folks still come from near and far. the wait is still interminable line is waiting as he opens up at 11 a.m. and goes out the door all day.

two ways to look at it in this economy: it's too much money for pizza, but it's such a fulfilling meal that you can feed a fam of four for 30 bucks, markedly less than taking the fam to a restaurant for dinner.

i get that it nonetheless sounds crazy for those outside of nyc, but take my word for it: if you can be satisfied by pizza, you'd love this place. it's PIZZA. trust me.

heck, how serious am i? no smiley faces from me on this one. i'm serious about my pizza. i've taken many friends into brooklyn to see what i'm always raving about and they, too, now understand..

 

I'll try DiFara's next time. But I like Grimaldi's a LOT. Took my mom there on her first trip to NYC in the spring. She loved it too.

Does DiFara's do the same kind of pizza? With the fresh mozzarella in gobs instead of shredded?