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Gennaro’s Was a Classic NYC Pizza Joint With Reasonably Priced Italian Dishes

Feb 1, 2020

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If you grew up in and around the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island, Gennaro’s pizzeria was most likely a staple in your life. Formerly Pizza Town, a place that literally looked like a carnival attraction, it was transformed into Gennaro’s with a more traditionally designed building in the 1980s. The new name and edifice…

Lee’s Tavern Offers Some of NYC’s Finest Pizza and Fried Calamari

Jan 24, 2020

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Vin Funaro

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Lee’s Tavern is the type of place that makes a trip to Staten Island worth it when visiting New York City, If you’re a native Staten Islander, a tourist, or someone living in another borough, I strongly recommend trying their signature thin crust pizza and uniquely battered calamari. I grew up not too far from…

Pound Cake Ice Cream from Torico’s in Jersey City Annihilates Cake Batter Flavors

Jan 17, 2020

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Vin Funaro

in food, Travel

If you ever visit NYC or New Jersey, and you’re a restaurant and dessert junkie like me, you need to check out Torico’s ice cream shop in Jersey City. When it comes to cake flavored ice cream, cake batter is normally the standard but is a taste that if done incorrectly, comes off artificial and…

Halal Guys, The Hipster Boom and Listening to Kid Cudi in Late 2000s NYC

Jan 10, 2020

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Vin Funaro

in food, Travel

In the late 2000s, changes in NYC really started to take shape and humble eateries like the now infamous Halal Guys gyro stand started to gain popularity with more and more young people flocking to places like Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This was around the time I landed my first job/internship in Manhattan and started to get…

Late Night Chinese Eats at NYC’s Wo Hop and Cam’ron’s ‘Purple Haze’

Dec 20, 2019

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Vin Funaro

in food, music, Travel

In the mid-2000s, I really started to push the limits of my driving when I decided to make regular trips to Manhattan for late-night Chinese meals at a restaurant called Wo Hop. A few brave friends would take this journey with me to Chinatown at least once a week, and we’d always have a soundtrack…