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My daughter and I are taking sort of a spur-of-the moment trip to NYC today to see Phantom of the Opera. She wants to have "real New York pizza" while we're there. Any suggestions of where to get pizza around Times Square or the theater (44th street) from those of you in NYC?

We'll be leaving about noon so any suggestions before then would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I've eaten at A Slice of New York, 727 8th Ave (between 45th and 46th). Nothing fancy, just New York pizza.

In my opinion, almost all pizza in NY is good!

You didn't say if you were looking to sit down or just stop in and get a slice. John's is very good but I don't think they sell slices. It's right there in the Times square area, I believe on 44th and 8th...or in between 7th and 8th.

I usually just stop at any place that looks and smells good so I think that would work for you too!!! Have fun today!!!

trevor_macfee wrote:My daughter and I are taking sort of a spur-of-the moment trip to NYC today to see Phantom of the Opera. She wants to have "real New York pizza" while we're there. Any suggestions of where to get pizza around Times Square or the theater (44th street) from those of you in NYC?

We'll be leaving about noon so any suggestions before then would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Dominos
153 E 116th St
New York, NY 10029
Phone: 212-831-1024
Hours: Su-Sa 11:00am-1:00am
Store Number: 3511



Enjoy!

As long as you aren't looking for any fried chicken, you'll be fine....

John's Pizzaria.

It used to be a church.

They do not serve by the slice.

It's great.

http://www.johnspizzerianyc.com/index2.htm

Avoid all chains - look for independent places. Also they must sell by the slice. Small, long narrow places with little or no seating tend to be the best IMHO. They should have a long counter, a number of ovens right behind the counter, and pies moving fairly quickly from the oven to the display/serving counter - and moving from there out to the customers at a brisk rate. You don't want a slice that is either sitting under a heat lamp for hours or they need to toss back into the oven to warm up.

Of course you might want to try:

What has been called “the world’s most extravagant pizza” is available at New York’s Nino’s Bellissima restaurant. Topped with six varieties of caviar, chives, fresh lobster and creme fraîche, this 12-inch (30 cm) pie, called the “Luxury Pizza”, retails at US$1,000.00 (or $125.00 a slice).[

---Jay (To bake the best pizza in town, no ordinary oven will do. Picard's Tiny Revolving Tray Pizza Oven easily bakes this number of pizzas at once - which is the same number of days until my air date!)

frogman042 wrote: Of course you might want to try:

What has been called “the world’s most extravagant pizza” is available at New York’s Nino’s Bellissima restaurant. Topped with six varieties of caviar, chives, fresh lobster and creme fraîche, this 12-inch (30 cm) pie, called the “Luxury Pizza”, retails at US$1,000.00 (or $125.00 a slice).[

Ewww! -- Ewww! (That's my stomach and my wallet crying out in unison.)

Go with Johns. It's close and it's wonderful.
Depending on the time of day, make sure you have some time to wait.......

If it's just a slice you could do Ray's Original....but it's pretty icky compared to John's.

There is also an italian rest. on 45 - 47th street near between 8th and 9th I think that has pretty good pizza too. Much less crowded than John's usually but I can't remember the name of it. Maybe Figaro's? something like that?

I knew you guys could help!

We'll check out John's (we should have some time to wait - probably getting to the city around 3:30 and the show's not til 7) and have the other recommendations in case that doesn't work out.

Frogman - unfortunately the J! check hasn't arrived yet so the $1000 pizza is a no-go today!

Thanks for your suggestions - I'll let ya'll know tomorrow how it went.

trevor_macfee wrote:I knew you guys could help!

We'll check out John's (we should have some time to wait - probably getting to the city around 3:30 and the show's not til 7) and have the other recommendations in case that doesn't work out.

Frogman - unfortunately the J! check hasn't arrived yet so the $1000 pizza is a no-go today!

Thanks for your suggestions - I'll let ya'll know tomorrow how it went.

Don't tell me you burned through all your millionaire winnings already?

---Jay (Take the total number of Shakespeare plays (including the Apocrypha) - remove 'The Tempest' because it contains the line "how to snare the nimble marmoset" (Act 2, Scene 2). and the number of plays remain is the number of days until my episode airs)

Just watch out for falling glass:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?secti ... id=6322071

frogman042 wrote:

trevor_macfee wrote:I knew you guys could help!

We'll check out John's (we should have some time to wait - probably getting to the city around 3:30 and the show's not til 7) and have the other recommendations in case that doesn't work out.

Frogman - unfortunately the J! check hasn't arrived yet so the $1000 pizza is a no-go today!

Thanks for your suggestions - I'll let ya'll know tomorrow how it went.

Don't tell me you burned through all your millionaire winnings already?

---Jay (Take the total number of Shakespeare plays (including the Apocrypha) - remove 'The Tempest' because it contains the line "how to snare the nimble marmoset" (Act 2, Scene 2). and the number of plays remain is the number of days until my episode airs)

Frogman - don't make too many plans on the air date being for real. Maybe it will be but they are notorious for changing them...so be ready for that!!!

sunflower wrote:

frogman042 wrote:

trevor_macfee wrote:I knew you guys could help!

We'll check out John's (we should have some time to wait - probably getting to the city around 3:30 and the show's not til 7) and have the other recommendations in case that doesn't work out.

Frogman - unfortunately the J! check hasn't arrived yet so the $1000 pizza is a no-go today!

Thanks for your suggestions - I'll let ya'll know tomorrow how it went.

Don't tell me you burned through all your millionaire winnings already?

---Jay (Take the total number of Shakespeare plays (including the Apocrypha) - remove 'The Tempest' because it contains the line "how to snare the nimble marmoset" (Act 2, Scene 2). and the number of plays remain is the number of days until my episode airs)

Frogman - don't make too many plans on the air date being for real. Maybe it will be but they are notorious for changing them...so be ready for that!!!

Hey, I'm as confident that that will be the air date as I was that I would tape on the 25th of July - and we know how well that worked out.

I am aware that the date may (and possibly likely) change - once it is finalized I will let everyone know - as of now, I know it is tentitve, but I need some fixed date in which to countdown to, and I might as well use the date that they gave me.

---Jay (If you know the smallest number with exactly ten divisors - then you know the number of days to the TENTITIVE airing of my episode)

frogman042 wrote:(Take the total number of Shakespeare plays (including the Apocrypha) - remove 'The Tempest' because it contains the line "how to snare the nimble marmoset" (Act 2, Scene 2). and the number of plays remain is the number of days until my episode airs)

Hmmm, frogman has something against marmosets?

Could this be one of those hints that we know he's not going to give us before the airing of his episode?

5LD wrote:Go with Johns. It's close and it's wonderful.
Depending on the time of day, make sure you have some time to wait.......

If it's just a slice you could do Ray's Original....but it's pretty icky compared to John's.

There is also an italian rest. on 45 - 47th street near between 8th and 9th I think that has pretty good pizza too. Much less crowded than John's usually but I can't remember the name of it. Maybe Figaro's? something like that?

Maybe Fiorentina's on 46th?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

frogman042 wrote:(Take the total number of Shakespeare plays (including the Apocrypha) - remove 'The Tempest' because it contains the line "how to snare the nimble marmoset" (Act 2, Scene 2). and the number of plays remain is the number of days until my episode airs)

Hmmm, frogman has something against marmosets?

Could this be one of those hints that we know he's not going to give us before the airing of his episode?

I was thinking he must have dogs and wolves on his mind, with his recent "tentitive" references. From what I can determine, ten teats seems to be the standard for those species.
http://classes.ansci.uiuc.edu/ansc438/L ... sdogs.html

TheConfessor wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

frogman042 wrote:(Take the total number of Shakespeare plays (including the Apocrypha) - remove 'The Tempest' because it contains the line "how to snare the nimble marmoset" (Act 2, Scene 2). and the number of plays remain is the number of days until my episode airs)

Hmmm, frogman has something against marmosets?

Could this be one of those hints that we know he's not going to give us before the airing of his episode?

I was thinking he must have dogs and wolves on his mind, with his recent "tentitive" references. From what I can determine, ten teats seems to be the standard for those species.
http://classes.ansci.uiuc.edu/ansc438/L ... sdogs.html

Ahhh, never mind!

Now I see that he was just playing off of trevor's marmoset avatar.

So it's not a "nine horizontal rows of stars" thing...