Reservations (yes, reservations!) open at 9 a.m. each morning for two weeks in advance of the desired date. The establishment is open, moreover, only on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 5 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.
So what’s the name of this exclusive boite and what kind of cuisine does it specialize in? The answers respectively are Una Pizza Napoletana and pizza. Just pizza, in six flavor profiles, plus two “appetizers” — house marinated olives and lupini bean salad.
If you need further inducement to go, be aware that the task of securing a table likely just became harder in the wake of a declaration by outfit an called 50 Top Pizza that Una Pizza Napoletana is the world’s best pizzeria.
Una Pizza Napoletana, 175 Orchard Street, 646-476-4457.
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The acronym stands for “Lead Ice Cream Taster, and Van Leeuwen, maker of some of the weirdest ice cream flavors ever to come down the pike, is looking to confer that honorary title on a worthy applicant.
If you think you have what it takes to come up with the next outlandish ice cream flavor (sorry, Dijon mustard and Macaroni and cheese are already taken), you can enter the contest here.
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