[rollei_list] Re: New Haven pizza photos

Marc, I don't know this place. There are great restaurants, but none like you describe. There is a lot of Greek pizza, which, unlike Italian, seems to look and taste the same wherever you have it. It has a thick pita-breadlike crust and thick cheese.

Slightly to east of Yale is a decent Irish pub in a cellar where on Sundays and Monday evenings Irish musicians gather to fiddle Irish music and drink beer. A few of us meet there Monday nights after working in the darkroom of the Creative Arts Workshop, one of the city's gems.

It seems the good Jewish delies are gone. M&T and Zacky's are gone. A new deli has taken their place, but not in my heart. I miss the old places' chopped liver and kugl. Bagels are so so in town. They've never been good while I've been here. This is a disappointment.

There was a good Italian restaurant in the Hill section of town, but it had labor problems, moved and never recovered. Eating there was quite an introduction to New Haven. People would stand in line to get in, but if you knew the owner, you entered through the side door and got seated faster than the others. This was quite a different experience from German Cincinnati, where the rules were followed to the letter and the policemen wore white hats (and shot at least one person in the back, if memory serves me right, who was trying to escape and climbing a fence). Another example of Cincinnati is from a Sunday morning when I was driving down a three-lane one-way city street. There was no traffic to speak of, but the four cars on the road were all following one another driving below the speed limit. Experiencing that, I had the feeling (rightly or wrongly) that the people of the city were rigid in their ways, an impression I still hold. Moving to New Haven, however, I frequently saw people drive through red lights--not something that gives one a lot of confidence.

It may be that Cincinnati has changed over the years. I no longer notice the cars here driving through red lights. I've come to accept that the bagels here are assimilated, but I do note that the quality of the pizza has not changed and would be upset if it did.

Doug

On May 25, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Marc James Small wrote:

At 09:10 PM 5/24/06 -0400, Douglas Nygren wrote: 
Isn't it remarkable how much action this thread on pizza gets.

I must admit, I love Italian food. When we moved here (New Haven) from
Cincinnati, I complained the entire way. After a couple of means at
Italian restaurants, I no longer complained.

I believe others might confirm that not only is the pizza good in New
Haven, Italian food is superb as well.

When I was in graduate school at Yale back in the early 1970's, there was a
great Greek place over to the East where a bunch of Greek men would gather
to dance on Friday evenings. Lots of Dolmada and Retsina and we had some
grand times.

Marc

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