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[[Image:difaras.jpg]]<br /><br />Mr. DeMarco imports most of the ingredients from Italy: [[flour]], [[basil]], and the [[cheese]], which is imported from his own native village of [[Caserta]]. |
[[Image:difaras.jpg]]<br /><br />Mr. DeMarco imports most of the ingredients from Italy: [[flour]], [[basil]], and the [[cheese]], which is imported from his own native village of [[Caserta]]. |
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Some consider his hallmark to be the very last step he does to each handmade pizza: taking a fresh bundle of basil and cutting it up with scissors to top off the pie. Others say it's the generous drizzling of the [[olive oil]], also imported from Italy. He began both practices in January of 2007.<br /><br /> |
Some consider his hallmark to be the very last step he does to each handmade pizza: taking a fresh bundle of basil and cutting it up with scissors to top off the pie. Others say it's the generous drizzling of the [[olive oil]], also imported from Italy. He began both practices in January of 2007.<br /><br /> |
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In March 2007, DiFara's was shut down by the [[Department of Health]]. It reopened in April only to be ordered to shut down again in June 2007, having failed five of their last six inspections. |
In March 2007, DiFara's was shut down by the [[Department of Health]]. It reopened in April only to be ordered to shut down again in June 2007, having failed five of their last six inspections. A [http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?difara07 petition] was created by friends, family and patrons to reopen DiFara's. |
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==DeMarco's== |
==DeMarco's== |
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Revision as of 04:21, 1 October 2007
DiFara's Pizzeria, located at 1424 Avenue J in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, NY has been lauded repeatedly as one of the greatest pizzerias in New York. It has received accolades from Time Out New York, USAToday and the New York Times. The pizzeria has been owned and operated by legendary pizza maker Domenico DeMarco in the same location since 1964. DeMarco opened DiFara's after emigrating from the Province of Caserta, Italy in 1959. In 2003 the New York Post listed DiFara's as the number one pizzeria in New York City.
Mr. DeMarco imports most of the ingredients from Italy: flour, basil, and the cheese, which is imported from his own native village of Caserta.
Some consider his hallmark to be the very last step he does to each handmade pizza: taking a fresh bundle of basil and cutting it up with scissors to top off the pie. Others say it's the generous drizzling of the olive oil, also imported from Italy. He began both practices in January of 2007.
In March 2007, DiFara's was shut down by the Department of Health. It reopened in April only to be ordered to shut down again in June 2007, having failed five of their last six inspections. A petition was created by friends, family and patrons to reopen DiFara's.
DeMarco's
In the early 2000s Mr. DeMarco's daughter opened DeMarco's, a pizzeria at West 146 Houston Street in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan.[1] The restaurant was the site of a fatal shooting on March 14, 2007 when a DeMarco's employee was shot by a deranged customer.[2]
External links
video of Dominic DeMarco and DiFara's
AOL City Guide
Slice NY Review
Video of DeMarco making a pie
2004 New York Times interview with Dom DeMarco