Cafe Rustico II

Last week I did karaoke with my work friends at iBop. 

That place is cool because you can bring your own beer and order a pizza right to your room, which of course we did. 

Bud Light 40s + pizza + karaoke = best night ever?

I apologize for the crappy pic, there was like, a black light or something

A large pie is $16. A slice at the place is $2.50.

pretty much I'm a loser

So I can't really give this pizza a proper review since I had my 2 slices about 6 beers into the evening...but from what I, and everyone else there, remember it was really good. 

Seriously, I highly recommend it if you're ever in the area. No joke.

Cafe Rustico II

25 W. 35th St (btwn 5th and 6th Ave.)

New York, NY 10001

Lenny's Pizza

Image stolen from the Slice blog

So I was in Park Slope on Monday and had an hour to kill before recording. It was pouring and this place is right by the studio so I stopped in. Technically I'm only supposed to review Greenpoint pizza, but I make the rules here and decided now I just do whatever. This place has a good reputation, I don't know why. 

I got a plain slice $2.50

The asymmetry of the fat crust bothers me

Fine. It looks good - it always does, right? Looks can be deceiving. Folks, for those of you who are into it, Lenny's is a thin crusted slice. I am not one of these people who are into it, apparently. The crust was so thin that the sauce  just made it soggy. The sauce was good, but listen - I don't want a soggy slice. And although not as greasy as the slice from Russ, this is still an intensely greasy slice. The cheese is good - no complaints. Will there be a day where I complain about cheese? I dunno. So I had this mush of a slice of pizza and when I got down to trying to enjoy the fat end crust, I just couldn't. This crust tasted the most like cardboard out of all the slices I've reviewed so far. Needs more than salt to fix this one. 

I like that there's a good amount of seating in the back and God knows I love wood paneling. The old guy who works there (is that Lenny? I don't even know...) was nice, cracking jokes that I had to politely laugh at since they were directed at me since I was the only one in there and while Hot 97 blasting over the speakers is not my thing, they played T.I.'s Whatever You Like, which of course you know made me happy because you guys know me so well; however, credit cannot be attributed to the establishment for that one. Run-on sentence much? I don't even bother editing apparently...Sorry dad.

Pros: A lot of places to sit, Lunch special of 2 slices and a small fountain soda for $4.50

Cons: Crappy pizza for realz, my Diet Coke fountain soda (which they don't put any ice in) tasted like root beer halfway though. 

Lenny's Pizzeria

594 Fifth Avenue (btwn 16th St and Prospect Ave)

Brooklyn, NY 11215

dream dude? dream pizza

This movie was posted on the Slice blog, thought I'd share. This is where I'll go for my post-Passover pizza

Russ Pizza

So I met up with Christine on Saturday for GPC #3 after she'd looked an apartment. I'd never been here which is kind of ridiculous, but I think I've always been turned off by the amount of people it looks like are in there on line since it's such a narrow entrance? When I got there there were a bunch of people waiting around, this doesn't seem like fastest place and I get the impression they don't really care.



 I don't think I knew they had seating in the back in the way that Italy Pizza also does. The seating area is pretty substantial and it seemed like most of the people who were on line were taking their pizza to go and not hanging around like us.



Plain slice $2.25 



This slice is not from a fresh pie, and it needed to be heated up. It took longer to heat up than it should when I'm hungover and want pizza AND as you can see, it's smaller than the Schmook's slice. I have to say I really liked it though; the cheese was salty, the sauce was good - it reminded me of one of the Park Slope pizza places I used to go to growing up. Smiling, I think? The crust was okay; it was crispy and wasn't undercooked but it could have used more salt. The main issue here is that this is one helluva greasy slice. Christine did "the dab" - seriously, check this out:



Kind of gross, but listen, we got another slice to share just to be sure and we got a slice from a fresh pie. It kind of does make a difference. It was still amazingly greasy, but very good.



What else?




Pros: Yum, my favorite so far on the GPC
Cons: Slice too small for amount I want to eat, slow service, fountain soda tasted like crap and the large isn't large enough



Russ Pizza
745 Manhattan Ave (Btwn Meserole and Norman)
Brooklyn, NY 11222