Eating at Balera: A Pizza Party In Brooklyn
By Ian MacAllen
Monday, September 21st, 2026 | 549 views
Balera serves up Roman-style Pizza in Williamsburg. We stopped in for dinner, twice.
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Eating At Leo: Is It Just Another Neapolitan Style Pizza Restaurant?
By Ian MacAllen
Monday, February 10th, 2025 | 7,238 views
Leo serves of Neapolitan style pizza in Brooklyn, a trend thats more than two decades old.
I Made the Viral Don Angie Spiral Lasagna and I Survived — Just Barely.
By Ian MacAllen
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023 | 13,115 views
Chefs Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli founded Don Angie in 2017, a modern Italian American restaurant celebrating the red sauce cuisine synonymous with Italians in America. The restaurant has achieved plenty of acclaim, earning and then losing a Michelin star, publishing a popular cookbook under the title Italian American, and achieving fame on social media like TikTok. Perhaps no better symbol of their success is the famous spiral lasagna dish.
Eating At Serra: When Italian Food Is Kind of Mid
By Ian MacAllen
Monday, December 4th, 2023 | 8,257 views
Let me begin by saying we were in the Flatiron district. I know, those words sound silly even as I type them out. Why would anyone be there of all places? My wife was at a coworking space and we were meeting my brother who was coming from the Upper West Side, and suddenly it seemed like the easy place to meet.
