![]() ![]() “You know who was in here the other day? Kenji Alt, who’s one of the great asshole scumbag coward pieces of shit who ever lived,” said Portnoy, referring to J. (In his 2018 Best Pizza review, for example, he is inexplicably joined by a pair of baby goats, which he nuzzles throughout the clip.) But on August 17, Portnoy posted a review of Funzi’s Pizzeria on St. For years, the reviews generally steered clear of the no-holds-barred culture-war brawling that otherwise defined Portnoy’s ascent. In the weeks leading up to the festival, Portnoy’s pizza reviews - arguably the most successful series of YouTube food reviews ever, and certainly the apex of the pizza category - started growing friskier. At the same time, there’s just this dog-and-pony show going off on the side.” “It’s a really beautiful thing for the history of pizza, all those pizzerias together. ![]() The sheer volume of dough-spinning talent in one location was “unprecedented,” said Frank Pinello, owner of Williamsburg’s Best Pizza, who participated. Medium Rare, a production company known for throwing festivals with Gronk, Shaq, and Guy Fieri, brought in a forest’s worth of wood and dozens of rented ovens so the pizzeria owners could attempt to replicate their pies in the wild. Thirty-five pizzerias, including tristate titans like Di Fara, Frank Pepe, Sally’s Apizza, and Patsy’s, enlisted tickets started at $150 and ran to $699 for VIP. Some 5,000 people attended, according to Portnoy. Welcome to Dave Portnoy’s One Bite Pizza Festival, held on Saturday afternoon at Maimonides Park in Coney Island, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones. I managed a few bites before a gust sent the plate flying from my hand the slice landed face down on the AstroTurf. Danny, an attendee at the One Bite Pizza Festival, eating his 72nd slice of the day.Īs far as optimal circumstances for enjoying a slice of pizza, my weekend left something to be desired: I was soaked through to my socks on a minor-league baseball field, fighting to hold on to a paper plate amid gusts of wind and perpendicular sheets of rain, listening to a DJ blasting an EDM remix of Morgan Wallen’s “Whiskey Glasses” at sonic-warfare volume, and trying to wolf down my sample-size slice fast enough that it wouldn’t get soaked through as I shuffled in a line of people around a maze of portable metal barriers as if I were stuck in the world’s most psychotic airport-security line.
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