When Slice of NY Pizzeria opened at 700 W. Wisconsin Ave. in June, a fellow expat New Yorker visited and posted on Facebook that the pizzeria was his new favorite in town.
OK, so it took me a while to get there, but I did stop in this week to check it out.
Located in the easternmost retail space at Library Hill Apartments, the place faces directly onto the corner of 7th and Wisconsin. Inside, the decor is as you'd expect: lots of images of the New York City and otherwise spartan and clean, with some tables for dining in.
The place is the second location of a Kenosha pizzeria and has been open, as I say, since June.
There is a variety of slices on offer most days and they range in price from $3 for plain cheese to $4 for stuffed pizza slices. A pepperoni and sausage slice and a sausage and mushroom option run $3.50, while specialty stuff like Hawaiian pizza, barbecue chicken, and "Grandma's" – which has seven, count 'em, seven cheeses – are $3.75.
The slices are big enough that most people that aren't me may be satisfied with just one. I tried a Grandma's, which was good and cheesy, though, perhaps ironically, less so than the white spinach slice which was delicious, with a heaping mound of melted cheese atop spinach and a white sauce.
The crust was nice and thin with a bit of chewiness and good crunch on the underside (see the photo above).
You can also order pies – 14" and 18" – that range from $9.95 to $21.95, and the menu includes wings, salads, garlic bread, calzones, stromboli and some sandwiches (Philly cheese steak, hot beef, etc.), too.
I always yearn for more pizza by the slice places around town, and especially – of course – good ones. So, I'm happy this one is here.
Slice of NY is open Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m. until midnight; Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. until 2 a.m. Delivery is available during the same hours and until 3 a.m. on Saturday (well, technically, Sunday, right?). I suspect they'll do a bang-up delivery with all those dorms as close as a block away.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
