Grimaldi's Pizzeria

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Grimaldi's Pizzeria is a popular pizzeria franchise in the New York City area. The original and most famous of these locations is located under the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn on Old Fulton Street. It does not sell slices; only whole pies. The pizzas are made using a coal-fired brick oven.

1 History
2 Notoriety
3 Other locations
4 External links

[edit] History

Grimaldi's Pizzeria in Brooklyn, NY.

Patsy Grimaldi, the founder of Grimaldi's, learned to make pizza at his uncle Patsy Lancieri's pizzeria in 1941 at age ten. He eventually opened his own restaurant, Patsy's Pizzeria, in Brooklyn. Grimaldi originally planned to build it in Manhattan. However, he believed that coal-fired brick ovens produced the best pizza, and it was illegal to build new coal ovens in Manhattan. As a result, he moved to the current location under the Brooklyn Bridge. Eventually, Grimaldi sold the naming rights to a corporation and had to change the name of his restaurant to Grimaldi's.

[edit] Notoriety

Grimaldi's Pizzeria is one of the most popular in New York City. In recent years, Zagat Survey has rated Grimaldi's No. 1 Pizzeria in New York [1]. It was named one of the top 10 value restaurants in New York by Let's do New York City [2]. As Grimaldi's does not take reservations, lines for tables are often long and extend far up Old Fulton Street.
On the Law & Order episode "Tabula Rasa," detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate a suspect who claims he has never been in New York before, and find that he often attends Grimaldi's alone. Briscoe and Curtis are later seen in Grimaldi's eating pizza there [3].
Grimaldi's Pizzeria was chosen as one of the five best pizzaeria's in United States by the Food Network. Their pizza was featured on the television show The Best of....[4].

[edit] Other locations

Grimaldi's has three other locations: Hoboken, New Jersey, Garden City, New York, Chandler, Arizona and Scottsdale, Arizona. The Hoboken location was named Best Pizza in Hoboken in a Zagat Survey in 2005.