Category New Jersey
Grandpa’s Kitchen in Bayonne, NJ—More Pizza Turnover on Broadway
This is getting to be an old story. A simple brick storefront downtown on Bayonne’s Broadway continues to change hands—remarkably remaining its configuration as a pizza joint. Morphing from “long-standing” Mario’s Pizza to the “move uptown and then shut down” Lorenzo’s Pizza & Pasta, and after a blink of an eye as Pizza Bella, the […]
Jersey City’s Four Brothers Pizza—Great Pizza with an Old Time Vibe
My Jersey City followers will have to suffer one last post about my recent local pizza explorations. This time it was on a Saturday with my brother. Together, we made a trip up West Side Avenue to a place where the sign read The Four Brothers: “Best Pizza in Town”. This part of the West […]
Georgio’s Pizza—A “Slice and a Shake” in Jersey City
It was a late summer afternoon, and I was still on my pizza tour of Jersey City’s Greenville section. Looking for another new place for a quick lunch, I came across Georgio’s Pizza. Driving up West Side Avenue, I found its corner location just after Culver and right before the Light Rail Station at Claremont. […]
Vinnie’s Pizza III—Another Great Cheesy Jersey City Slice
Still living my temporary daily situation in the Greenville area of Jersey City, I tracked down another nearby pizza joint for a midweek late afternoon lunch, Vinnie’s Pizza III. Not quite sure where its Danforth Avenue address would lead me, I was surprised to find Vinnie’s at the western end of the avenue where it […]
Jersey City’s Prince of Pizza— Invades Bayonne, NJ with Its Perfect Slice
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of discovering a great “street slice” place in Jersey City called Prince of Pizza. While devouring one of their perfect slices, I was surprised to find that they also had a joint in the northern end of my neighboring hometown of Bayonne. News to me, I can only […]
A Big, Big Slice at Vincent’s in Jersey City, NJ
Here’s a little thinking game that you can play. Let’s assume that somewhere there exists a collection of stop watches that keep track of the amount of time you spend in each city on Earth during your life time. What cities would have you clocked the most time in? For me #1 would be my […]
Prima Pizzeria in Bayonne, NJ—A Decent Slice for the Schoolkids
Here’s a little Bayonne “mapography” from the Pizza Snob to preface this review. The streets running north-south on this narrow peninsula start with Avenue A on the west and end with a short Avenue F on the east. Kennedy Boulevard (Hudson County Boulevard until renamed for JFK) is between A and C and the retail […]
Jersey City’s Renato’s Pizza Masters— As Good as Their Name Implies
Reuniting with old high school friends can be fun. Especially when they share my mutual love for music and pizza. My old friend Big Jim was absolutely ecstatic that I try a place in the Jersey City Heights that dates date to 1959: Renato’s Pizza Masters. (No affiliation with Bayonne’s Pizza Masters.) On my list […]
R.I.P.—Bayonne’s Wild Wood Pizza and Penne
So here’s a post-mortem on a pizza joint in my hometown that I never visited. Advertising their wood-fired pizza with the slogan “We do it with wood” had little appeal to me in a town with more conventional pizza ovens than fire hydrants! Sorry, the Snob likes his pizza the old-fashioned way. Although not as […]
The Pizza Snob 