Co. Opens This Week!

Co. -- which we wrote about earlier this month - opens this week. Yea!!!

Alligator Lounge Opens New Location In Greenpoint

Alligator Lounge - which was one of the first bars in New York City to serve a free pizza with each beer - has opened a new location in Greenpoint. Alligator 2 is taking over the space formally occupied by Lost & Found which was known for serving up free hot dogs with each brew.

South Brooklyn Pizza Now Delivers

Slice reported earlier this week that South Brooklyn Pizza (451 Court Street), one of Brooklyn's most delicious pizza places, will now be delivering. Too bad they don't deliver to Manhattan!

As a Holiday surprise In response to ongoing customer requests, South Brooklyn Pizza is slated to soft-open their new adjoining takeout/delivery annex today (Tuesday, December 16), located next to the restaurant's main entrance and sharing the same address and phone number.

Two kinds of pizzas will be sold (cash only): Sicilian Margherita and Cheese Melange (mozzarella, fontina, asagio, ricotta, and pecorino, all imported from Italy) in 18-inch size—$20 each; by the slice—$3 per. Both takeout and delivery (within a 10-block radius) will be offered, and hours and days of operation to begin with will be limited, and then expanded to 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week, in time for the official grand opening on Thursday, January 8.

Artichoke Basille's Pizza To Expand

The New York Post reports that Artichoke Basille's Pizza, my personal favorite pizza place in Manhattan, is looking to expand:

The little spot on East 14th Street that made a splash when it opened last spring is scouring for at least five more new locations.

Artichoke has tapped Zelnik & Co. Realty's Jason Turner to spearhead the search. Artichoke co-owner Francis Garcia said his first priority is the West or East Village.

Nino's Christmas Decorations

Even Santa has his priorities straight!

Banks Use Free Pizzas and Humor to Calm Fears

Today's New York Times reports that banks are using free pizzas to attract new customers.

As Christmas approaches, many pitches are taking a less serious tack, replacing straightforward reassurances about safety and security with free pizzas and humorous advice about holiday gift-giving.

Slice Introduces Build-Your-Own-Pizza Kits

New York Magazine reports thatVancouver-based Papa Murphy’s has become the country’s fifth-largest pizza chain by serving up pies that (contrary to all logic) you cook yourself. Now Slice is following in their footsteps.

Slice, on the Upper East Side, has launched a line of “build your own pizza kits” that will satisfy all your take-and-bake urges. Buy them for $7.99 at Gourmet Garage, Fairway, Zabars, or Garden of Eden, and you get (in separate baggies, never frozen) two slices of whole-wheat crust, all-natural marinara sauce, and low-fat organic mozzarella cheese. Cook them for about five to eight minutes et voilà — way better than zapping a half-pound pepperoni-and-cheese Hot Pocket! Or more dignified, anyway…

Ray’s Pizza (The Real One) Opens In Jersey

Across the River for a Slice of Ray’s Pizza
By JOE BRESCIA
NEW YORK TIMES
December 1, 2008

HAZLET, N.J. — Hey Diddy, we’ve found your pizza.

Robert Duvall, we’ve located your chicken cacciatore.

Pelé? Your four-cheese pasta is ready.

Dom DeLuise, your chicken française is as tender as ever and it’s waiting for you

That’s the good news. The less than good news is that you have to travel a bit farther — at least gas prices are down — than the theater district to enjoy them.

Ray’s Real Pizza restaurant is still open for business, here in Hazlet. Where? How?

There are so many pizza restaurants in Manhattan with Ray in their names that their abundance rivals the ubiquity of Starbucks: Ray’s Pizza, Ray’s Original Pizza, Famous Ray’s Pizza and World-Famous Original Ray’s Pizza. But the story line of this Ray’s might be titled “From Broadway to the Boondocks, With Extra Cheese.” [read more]