Over the weekend the Post reported on a possible “pizza war”: Patsy Grimaldi is coming out of retirement to open a pizza place in the current Grimaldi’s space at 19 Old Fulton Street, which owner Frank Ciolli is vacating in order to reopen Grimaldi’s next door, at 1 Front Street. Meanwhile, there was another twist in the story when Ciollo found out that he wouldn’t be able to install a coal-fired brick oven in the new space at 1 Front, a turn of events that’s somehow being blamed on an architect from Robert Scarano’s office. (The details on this point are a bit difficult to swallow; the Post notes that “the city rarely issues new permits for coal-fired brick ovens because of environmental concerns.”) Anyhow, Patsy Grimaldi—who sold Grimaldi’s to Ciolli in 1998—plans to be back in business by March at 19 Old Fulton and is going to call his pizza place “Juliana’s.”
‘Illegal’ Install May KO Grimaldi’s Move [NY Post]
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