Totonno's 3/8/06
"Only God Makes Better Pizza." - Zagat's
A question I often ask myself and more to the point, other people, is "Don't you think it's stupid when pizza places or breakfast places serve bread before the meal?" The answer, as I discovered last night, is: no. The bread and olive oil at Totonno's were top notch. I give them a 10 out of a possible 15. I subtracted a few points to take into account that I was very hungry when we were served the bread.
The wine was sweet and made me drunk. However, the waitress, though kind and perhaps beautiful in another life, had me taste the wine even though Matt ordered, and then after I gave it the thumb up, she filled my glass first. Service? 8 out 15. (She has to make a living.) They were also very nice to let us see their coal oven, and told us to have a "nice stay" in New York when Matt told them we live in Boston but that we "had heard about Totonno's."
Decor: 0 out of 15. The St. Patrick's day decorations were tacky at best. The floor was linoleum, the seats and tables ugly. There were more than 20 autographed pictures on the wall of employee's shaking hands with Keith Hernandez. Since there was only one bathroom, they had illustrations of a man peeing into a toilet and a lady lifting her skirts and peeing hanging on a wall near to the bathroom door. On second thought, it's possible I used the ladies' room.
The pizza was superb thin crust pizza. Though we entertained the idea of asking for a sample of God's pizza so we could compare, we instead contented ourselves by talking extensively about pornography. The company was so-so. However, towards the end of the meal, the table behind us found itself occupied by three troll-men who had some interesting things to say about "Garfield."
Totonno's: 12 out of 15
Ecstasy: 4 out of 6 (different scale)
A question I often ask myself and more to the point, other people, is "Don't you think it's stupid when pizza places or breakfast places serve bread before the meal?" The answer, as I discovered last night, is: no. The bread and olive oil at Totonno's were top notch. I give them a 10 out of a possible 15. I subtracted a few points to take into account that I was very hungry when we were served the bread.
The wine was sweet and made me drunk. However, the waitress, though kind and perhaps beautiful in another life, had me taste the wine even though Matt ordered, and then after I gave it the thumb up, she filled my glass first. Service? 8 out 15. (She has to make a living.) They were also very nice to let us see their coal oven, and told us to have a "nice stay" in New York when Matt told them we live in Boston but that we "had heard about Totonno's."
Decor: 0 out of 15. The St. Patrick's day decorations were tacky at best. The floor was linoleum, the seats and tables ugly. There were more than 20 autographed pictures on the wall of employee's shaking hands with Keith Hernandez. Since there was only one bathroom, they had illustrations of a man peeing into a toilet and a lady lifting her skirts and peeing hanging on a wall near to the bathroom door. On second thought, it's possible I used the ladies' room.
The pizza was superb thin crust pizza. Though we entertained the idea of asking for a sample of God's pizza so we could compare, we instead contented ourselves by talking extensively about pornography. The company was so-so. However, towards the end of the meal, the table behind us found itself occupied by three troll-men who had some interesting things to say about "Garfield."
Totonno's: 12 out of 15
Ecstasy: 4 out of 6 (different scale)
posted by Zachary at 8:15 AM
10 Comments:
Pod, Kay - Please more information on Garfield awesome thank you.
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what's your guys take on Lombardo's?
the one in vancouver or st. louis?
excuse me - I meant Lombardi's, on Spring Street. That was like Village Pizza to me when I was in New York (meaning I went there a lot and liked it)
Jack -- Basically what the troll dudes were saying was that John can't hear Garfield, so if you read it without all of Garfield's thought bubbles it becomes a really funny, really sad cartoon in which John is talking to a cat with a lot of silence.
looks like a lombardi's dinner is coming up. did you ever have the clam pizza?
i really like the ray's pizza that is near the bowery ballroom. i've only been once or twice though, it's not close to me.
I like Lombardi's okay, but it's a bit sour for my taste. I'll take Sullivan Street and Gruppo over Lombardi's hell yeah.
Kay - re: Garfield, these guys sound like they arrived at dinner in a time machine from Five Minutes Ago. One time I was talking to a guy who tried to pass off the observation that the character of Willy Wonka is somewhat like Michael Jackson as original thought.
i'm very intrigued by otto. what makes a pizza otto different from a pizza classica?
gruppo is really good too! I forgot about that place.
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