Posts Tagged ‘ Pizza ’
As mentioned earlier, yesterday was Pi Day so a bunch of statisticians and other such nerds celebrated at the new(ish) Artichoke Basille near the High Line. We had three pies: the signature Artichoke, the Margherita and the Anchovy, which was delicious but only some of us ate. And of course we had our custom cake [ READ MORE ]
Happy Pi Day everybody! I’ll be out celebrating with the rest of the NYC Data Mafia eating pizza and devouring the above Pi Cake, custom baked by Chrissie Cook. Today is also Albert Einstein’s birthday so there are plenty of reasons to have fun. The cake below was my first ever Pi Cake in what is sure [ READ MORE ]
Daily Intel caught wind of a California Lawyer interview with US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia where he proclaims New York pizza “is infinitely better than Washington pizza, and infinitely better than Chicago pizza.” I may be biased to New York pizza as well, but that is a debate I’ll save for another day. It gets really interesting [ READ MORE ]
Last Wednesday I made a trip to Di Fara in Midwood, Brooklyn. Since that place is well covered and lauded I won’t talk about the pizza, as amazing as it is. I gave Dom a copy of my thesis (pdf) on NYC pizza and he loved that his place was one of the few pizzerias mentioned by name [ READ MORE ]
After years of waiting a new Artichoke Basilles our dreams have been answered. The new spot, which hasn’t even been updated on the website yet, is at 17th and 10th opened this weekend. Unlike the original location this one has seats and wait service and only sells pies, albeit smaller than the originals. There is a [ READ MORE ]
Last week Slice ran a post about a tomato taste test they conducted with Scott Wiener (of Scott’s NYC Pizza Tours), Brooks Jones, Jason Feirman, Nick Sherman and Roberto Caporuscio from Keste. While the methods used may not be rigorous enough for definitive results, I took the summary data that was in the post and performed [ READ MORE ]
The other day I found myself walking down 7th Avenue South, as is usual, and I decided to pop into Blecker Street Pizza. I haven’t been there in years because of all the other great pizza in the neighborhood like John’s, Keste, Number 28 (which is claimed best by Citysearch), Risotteria (so I’ve heard) and Joe’s. I remember [ READ MORE ]
Back in May I finally made it to L&B Spumoni Gardens and Slice was right, it is a Rite of Passage and totally worth the subway ride. My friend and I got a sicilian pie (12 slices) half plain and half mushrooms. They make it in an upside down style similar to New York Pizza Suprema, but [ READ MORE ]
Thanks to some early data from Pizza Girl, of Slice fame, I have some very preliminary findings. There are a few different ways to tip, check (only one person did this), credit card at the door, pre-tipping with a credit card and cash. As seen in these boxplots, cash tippers were the highest, on average. Pre-tippers, who really are [ READ MORE ]
The other day, I was working near Houston street, teaching a class on QlikView (which itself could be a great post topic about data munging for statisticians). On the last day of the class we decided to head to Bleecker street for a pizza feast. We got two pies from Keste (Pizza del Pappa and the [ READ MORE ]