Last year the Lampson Tractor and Trailer company moved away, numerous art galleries opened their doors, and Diavola, a new pizzeria, opened to such acclaim it has become a destination spot.
The pizzeria opened in January in a former auto-parts shop.
Otto, the Greenwich Village pizzeria opened by Mario Batali in 2003, cures its own pepperoni, in a small subterranean chamber now overseen by Dan Drohan, the restaurant's chef.
To see this new model in action, you need only study Nicoletta, the pizzeria opened in the East Village in June by the chef Michael White and his business partner, Ahmass Fakahany.
Olio Pizzeria opens at Grand Central Market.
800 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria opens its Santa Monica location on Tuesday at 11 a.m.
In a town brimming with pizza parlors, Marzano's, a Neapolitan pizzeria that opened in November, is a standout.
The restaurant is the production of the Stumptown founder Duane Sorenson, who is using his coffee profits to help remake Division Street, a formerly gritty strip of southeast Portland, into a gourmand's wonderland of taverns, specialty markets, coffeehouses and Roman Candle, a bakery and pizzeria that opened this month.
The chef at the Pines is Angelo Romano, who used to cook at Roberta's, the pizzeria that opened on a desolate Bushwick block in 2008 and is now a favorite of the Clintons and Kirsten Dunst.
He speaks in a mixture of Brooklynese (when his grandparents came to America with their three sons, in 1971, they opened a pizzeria in Borough Park and Staten Islandesee (when Giove was a kid, some relatives migrated across the Verrazano Narrows and opened a place called Brother's Pizza, in Port Richmond).
