StreetLevel: Pizza War in Dumbo?
Could a new pizza place possibly challenge the supremacy of one of Brooklyn’s most revered pizza parlors? Seems like the soon-to-open Ignazio’s at 4 Water Street may be fixing to do just that, since it’s setting up shop only a couple blocks away from Grimaldi’s. Louis Timero, a Bensonhurst native who left the city to…

Could a new pizza place possibly challenge the supremacy of one of Brooklyn’s most revered pizza parlors? Seems like the soon-to-open Ignazio’s at 4 Water Street may be fixing to do just that, since it’s setting up shop only a couple blocks away from Grimaldi’s. Louis Timero, a Bensonhurst native who left the city to start the celebrated Luna Pizza near Hartford, owns the new restaurant and intends to focus on the art of pizza, according to an article in the Brooklyn Eagle.
A December Homecoming Planned For A DUMBO Pizzeria [Brooklyn Eagle] GMAP
Last time we despaired of the long line at Grimaldi’s, I actually got ANGRY with capitalism–why, if it worked so well, weren’t there enough super-good brick-oven competitors on the block to sop up the overflow? And now–two cheers for capitalism! (The third will come if they make a pie as good as Grimaldi’s at their best.)
I have always enjoyed going to grimaldis over the years but it just has gotten so touristy and obnoxious in that long line. Ready for something new.
Well, if this article on Coonecticut dining is any indication… sad, truly sad.
http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-longwait.art0dec28,0,773049.story
Grimaldis is good pizza, but definitely too touristy and Lucali and Di Fara are both easily better.
anyone ever had those steamed hamburgers that you can find only in CT?
The four times I’ve been in Dumbo and walked by Grimaldi’s, there have been lines with tourists out the door. It’s just a tourist trap now, nothing more.
New Haven – birthplace of pizza and hamburgers in America. Best fast food (the good kind) city in the the country.
2:11 You are showing your ignorance. New Haven, CT is regarded as having some of the best pizza in the US. Not just by me. This is common knowledge among aficionados.
Grimaldi’s is pretty good pizza but the lousy service is really off-putting. You don’t go to a pizza joint to be coddled but the servers there are NASTY. One guy hung up the phone on me when I asked for take out. Like 1:02 I wonder why everyone who works there is so pissed off. Good luck to Ignazio’s. It takes some balls to open a pizza joint right across the street from one of NY’s most venerable.
2:11 – sounds funny till you try it. Go try Sally’s or Pepe’s, and then tell me where you can get a pie like that. Not Grimaldi’s ever since Patsy sold it. And clam pizza! God, I’m hungry.