While Patsy's Pizza is good, Lombardi's is awesome. Even if you just sorta, kinda like pizza, make time to visit.
Like Patsy's, they use a coal oven at Lombardi's. Like Patsy's, Lombardi's has been around a long time. But the comparison really needs to stop there. Lombardi's is in Little Italy. The ambience is incredible. And the place is packed. Even at an early hour the tables were crowded. By the time we left the line outside was long.
This Off-Broadway tale of two people is rather interesting in that the two people involved, a con man named George Love (played by Maxwell Caulfield from Grease 2) and his latest love interest Adelaide, alternate the telling.
At one moment they narrate from outside the story, as if they are explaining what is happening, and the next moment they are telling the story in a more normal fashion, acting it out as it happens.
In case you've been hiding under a rock the last few years, you've probably never heard of the Chip Shop. Okay, even if you haven't been hiding, you probably haven't heard of the Chip Shop. But you should have. You see, rumor has it that the Chip Shop is the inventor of the Fried Twinkie. But I'm not talking about the twinkie you get on a stick at the county fair.
The original Papaya King stand is still there in New York, and in a nod to tradition, we visited it one sunny afternoon. Sure, there are other locations, but sometimes you just have to go to where it all started. And in this case that is a cramped, standing room only location on 86th and 3rd.
