The N.Y. Times takes a look at Domino’s new “Brooklyn-style” pizza, which not surprisingly only faintly resembles actual Brooklyn pizza.
One thing the article doesn’t mention, and which, as a native of Queens (right on the Brooklyn border) astounds me, is the proliferation of Domino’s and (worse yet)Pizza Hut outlets throughout New York City, including Brooklyn. Okay, I’m a pizza snob. But really, in New York (outside, perhaps, Manhattan, where the pizza situation has become dire) you are rarely more than a few blocks away from at least decent New York pizza. And decent New York pizza is, for example, better than anything I’m able to find in the entire D.C. metropolitan area. Why would anyone in Brooklyn, ever order the dreck they sell at Domino’s?
UPDATE: IMHO, the best pizza in Brooklyn, in order, is Di Faro’s (Midwood), Tottonno’s (Coney Island) and Grimaldi’s (DUMBO). I like My Little Pizzeria in Brooklyn Heights/Downtown Brooklyn for a quick slice, and, if you find yourself in Queens, you can’t go wrong with the unheralded but excellent Carlo’s in Middle Village. Rosa’s, a few blocks down, is also quite good. I used to like Gino’s in Howard Beach, but had mediocre pizza there recently; a good friend is highly partial to the pizza at New Park Pizza, which unfortunately is best known for a horrible racist incident in the 1980s that tangentially involved the pizzeria.