Sam's Pizza Maestro Hangs Up Apron

A Cobble Hill legend has hung up his spurs: According to Lost City, Mario Migliaccio, who has made the pizzas at Sam's Restaurant at 238 Court Street since he came to the U.S. from Italy almost 60 years ago, has passed the torch to his son Louis following the death of his wife recently. "No need to worry," says Lost City. "The place isn't going anywhere, and Louis doesn't plan to change a thing." GMAP

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Posted by: Return of The What at June 9, 2009 10:56 AM

loved your pies mario.

sorry to see you go. brooklyn will be a lesser place without you.

and for what its worth, i'd want to go too....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischia

Posted by: bkn4life at June 9, 2009 11:24 AM

An interesting place, to say the least. You either love it or hate it. I think the pizza is amongst the best I ever had; infinitely better than the over-rated Grimaldis. Hopefully they will continue to be as good or close to it with Mario gone.

Posted by: Biff Champion at June 9, 2009 11:29 AM

Biff, are those pizza's also similar brick oven thin crust pizzas as those at over-hyped grimaldis?

Posted by: more4less at June 9, 2009 11:32 AM

I think the high quality of the pizzas are not well enough known.

Posted by: chrishavens at June 9, 2009 11:37 AM

M4L, it is an old coal-burning brick oven (I think the same one that has been used since the '30s!) that's now fueled by natural gas. The crust is probably a tiny bit thicker than Grimaldi's and as tasty as Lombardi's, my other favourite. If you like parts of the crust a tad on the burnt side, that is how it comes. The mozzeralla is extremely fresh and plentiful.

Posted by: Biff Champion at June 9, 2009 11:41 AM

M4L, also, Sam's was the ROTD on this blog awhile back. You should look it up.

Posted by: Biff Champion at June 9, 2009 11:44 AM

Biff, that's enough for me to stroll in sometime very very soon. stroll by it often as I'm in the hood a lot

Posted by: more4less at June 9, 2009 11:46 AM

I personally love Grimaldis and thought Di Fara's was over-hyped and nothing special.

I was an L&B this weekend and eventhough it's not the thin crust type of pizza BUT yet soooooo good and yummy.

Posted by: Kensingtonian at June 9, 2009 11:52 AM

M4L, just be prepared to deal with Louie. It is an experience, to say the least! If you just play along and don't mind him schmoozing you to death, you'll be fine. I was kind of turned off at the start but once I started joking back with him, it was kind of fun.

Posted by: Biff Champion at June 9, 2009 12:07 PM

This breaks my heart a little bit, but Mario has certainly earned his retirement. I remember the first time I went there, toward the end of the night, and after he made our pie, he came shuffling out from the back to go home. Went to the closet in the front next to the old phone booth, opened it up, got his jacket, put on his wool newsboy cap, took his cane off the hood, and wished his son "buena sera" on the way out. We sat frozen in disbelief. It was like sitting in a Scorsese movie.

Good luck to Mario -- he's earned it. And we'll tolerate Louis' "liquid or powder?" joke when we order a Coke as best we can in his absence.

Posted by: lucille at June 9, 2009 12:23 PM

i'll never forget the smell of the man who served us our goopy, disgusting pizza. i'll also never forget picking up my napkin only to find it had stains on it--and it was paper!

Posted by: vikodan31 at June 9, 2009 12:55 PM

The one and only time I was in Sam's, the older gentleman had to close early and rush us out (gently) because his wife was in the hospital. Sad news that she has passed. I am looking forward to going back to see if the pizza is just as good as before.

Posted by: cwilco at June 9, 2009 1:25 PM

Ate here once... once! and would never return. It's so-so pizza but god damn, the customer is always wrong mentality and their pasta is prepared over 2 days ago and soggy. Very white trash.

The mexicans make better pizza than "italians" now. Pathetic.

Posted by: CookieCutterBrownstone at June 9, 2009 5:31 PM

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