Paulie Gee’s Slice Shop
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Paulie Giannone was just another guy who posted on the now-defunct pizza-obsessive blog Slice before opening Paulie Gee’s, considered by many to be one of New York’s best pizzerias. The pies there are trendy Neapolitan-ish, but for his second New York act he’s gone old-school. Always happy to talk pizza, and then talk some more about pizza, Giannone tends to name-check the parlors and slice shops of his southern Brooklyn childhood. He and his head pizza chef Andrew Brown, a four-year alum of Paulie Gee’s, are taking inspiration in slices from spots like Totonno’s, New Park Pizza, Joe’s L&B Spumoni Garden, and Prince Street Pizza. Take the Freddy Prince, an upside-down Sicilian with fresh mozzarella that nods to Giannone’s favorite square, Prince Street’s Soho Square, and a place in Whitestone, Freddy’s, that puts sesame seeds on the crust’s bottom. Along with the squares, there’s a plain slice, a white with fresh mozzarella, pepperoni, sausage, and a version of Paulie Gee’s popular Hellboy. The toppings aren’t gonzo, at least not yet, but there’s a full selection of vegan pies made with Numu vegan mozzarella and vegan pepperoni. Although not for the menu, they’ve also taken something (again, literally) from the Martinsville, New Jersey, pizzeria Joe’s, from which they got their nostalgia-inducing orange booths. That retro inclination defines the space, which looks like a set from a Back to the Future sequel set in New York with its wood paneling, Yankees yearbooks going back to 1968, and vintage Coke signs.
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DrinksBeer and Wine
Noise LevelCivilized