His artisanal pies draw the foodies and the famous to the modest brick restaurant with the farm tables inside.
Check-cashing joints have become trendy salons; landscaped parklets and do-it-yourself schools have cropped up; and artisanal pies and pizza are making a Popeyes look increasingly out of place.
Cannoli were the popular item being offered by La Bella Torte, a black truck selling Italian desserts, while the fire-engine-red Eddie's Pizza Truck dished out artisanal pies with toppings like arugula, pulled pork and caramelized onions.
The artisanal-pie place on one corner and the auto body shops across the way suggest it is merely another spot in the city where grit is giving way to gentrification.
Dinner for two runs around $150 . 9 30p.m. 4. PRODUCE AT THE PUB Primo's locally sourced ethos is catching on just north of Rockland in the tiny harbor community Rockport, where a wood-walled former general store has been remade into an artisanal pub called Shepherd's Pie (18 Central Street, Rockport; 207-236-8500; shepherdspierockport.com).
Armed with the planet's largest collection of pizza memorabilia and a double-deck gas-fired oven, the shop integrates exhibits of pizza toys, video clips, albums and movie posters with a menu of both standard pies and artisanal varieties like "homestyle meatloaf" (a combination of kobe beef and wild boar).
Skip to next paragraph Related Quick Bite | West Hartford: A Taste of Eastern Europe (January 3, 2010) Times Topics: Connecticut Dining Enlarge This Image Andrew Sullivan for The New York Times Broccoli rabe with ricotta salata pizza Kitchen Zinc, on the site of their erstwhile Asian outpost, Chow, serves what is billed as artisanal pizza: thin-crust pies topped with local ingredients.
We don't wear a suit or know how to tie a Windsor knot or carry handkerchiefs or know how to change a tire or make a martini because all of those skills seem to belong to a Neanderthal age and now we live in Brooklyn and wear a pork pie hat and eat artisanal cheese.
Along with the bread ($5.95) and desserts like Bailey's cream pie ($15), Shanahan's turns out artisanal wood-fired pizza.
But if you would prefer not to wake at dawn on Thanksgiving Day to roll out cold dough, consider ordering a pie from one of the following artisanal New York bakers, who have started tiny companies in the last year or so.
