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Lombardi's
Lombardi's is a pizzeria at 32 Spring Street (Manhattan), Spring Street on the corner of Mott Street (Manhattan), Mott Street in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1905, it has been recognized by the Pizza Hall of Fame as History of pizza#Pizza in the United States, the first pizzeria in the United States, though later research has shown other pizzerias that predate it by more than a decade. History It was believed that Italian immigrant Gennaro Lombardi started the business in 1897 as a grocery store at 53½ Spring Street (Manhattan), Spring Street, and began selling "tomato pies" (in which the cheese is put down first then covered by tomato sauce) wrapped in paper and tied with a string at lunchtime to workers from the area's factories. As the story went, in 1905 Lombardi received a business license to operate a pizzeria restaurant, and soon had a clientele that included Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, and later passed the business on to his son, Georg ...
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Gennaro Lombardi
Gennaro Lombardi (August 6, 1887–November 24, 1958) was an Italian immigrant who moved to the United States in 1904. He has sometimes been credited for opening the first pizzeria in the United States, Lombardi's, at 53½ Spring Street. However, later research has shown both that he did not open the restaurant and that other New York pizzerias preceded. The traditional story holds that Lombardi opened a small grocery store in New York City's Little Italy, Manhattan, Little Italy. An employee of his, fellow Italian immigrant Antonio Totonno Pero, began making pizza for the store to sell. Their pizza became so popular that Lombardi opened the first U.S. pizzeria in 1905, naming it simply Lombardi's. Although Lombardi was influenced by the pies of Naples, he was forced to adapt pizza to Americans. The wood-fired ovens and ''Mozzarella, mozzarella di bufala'' were substituted with coal powered ovens and ''fior di latte'' (made from cow's milk), beginning the evolution of the America ...
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History Of Pizza
The history of pizza began in Ancient history, antiquity, as various ancient cultures produced flatbreads with several toppings. Pizza today is an Italian dish with a flat dough-based base and toppings, with significant Italian roots in history. A precursor of pizza was probably the focaccia, a flatbread known to the Romans as , to which toppings were then added. Modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy, between the 16th and mid-18th century. The word ''pizza'' was first documented in 997 CE in GaetaSalvatore Riciniello (1987) ''Codice Diplomatico Gaetano'', Vol. I, La Poligrafica. and successively in different parts of Central Italy, central and Southern Italy, southern Italy. Furthermore, the '':it:Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana, Etymological Dictionary of the Italian Language'' explains the word ''pizza'' as coming from dialectal ''pinza'', 'clamp', as in modern Italian ''pinze'', 'pliers, pincers, tongs, forceps'. Their origin is fro ...
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List Of Restaurants In New York City
This is an incomplete list of notable restaurants in New York City. New York City’s restaurant industry had 23,650 establishments in 2019. Restaurants in New York City * 54 Below * Bickford's * BurritoVille * Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill * The Halal Guys * El Internacional * Jahn's * Jing Fong * Joe's Shanghai * Kennedy Fried Chicken * Lucciola (Italian restaurant) * Korilla BBQ * Max and Mina's * The Meatball Shop * Munson Diner * Old Homestead Steakhouse * Piccolo Cafe * Ravagh Persian Grill * T.G.I. Friday's – first location opened in 1965 in New York City * Xi'an Famous Foods * Zaro's Bakery * Zaab Zaab Brooklyn * Aska * Childs Restaurants (Coney Island Boardwalk location) * Childs Restaurants (Surf Avenue location) * Claro * Clover Hill * Defonte's * Francie * Gargiulo's Italian Restaurant * Gage and Tollner * Junior's Restaurant * Nathan's Famous * Oxomoco * Peter Luger Steak House – Brooklyn location was established in 1 ...
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Spring Street (Manhattan)
Spring Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, which runs west–east through the neighborhoods of Hudson Square, SoHo, Manhattan, SoHo, and Nolita. It runs parallel to and between Dominick, Broome Street, Broome, and Kenmare Streets (to the south), and Vandam and Prince Streets (to the north). Address numbers ascend as Spring Street travels westward from the Bowery to West Street along the Hudson River. As it passes through the center of SoHo, Spring Street is known for its artists' lofts, restaurants, and trendy and high-end boutiques, as well as its collection of cast-iron architecture, cast-iron buildings. History Aaron Burr's estate, Richmond Hill, was located in the area in the 1790s. Burr dammed Minetta Creek to create an ornamental pool by his estate's main gate, which was located near where Spring Street, MacDougal Street and Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), Sixth Avenue come together. In 1803, what would become Spring Street was the only street through the ...
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Papa's Tomato Pies
Papa's Tomato Pies is a historic pizzeria selling Trenton tomato pies in New Jersey. It was founded by Giuseppe "Joe" Papa in 1912 on South Clinton Avenue in Trenton, New Jersey. Papa's is the oldest family owned and longest continuously operating pizzeria in the United States, as well as the second oldest pizzeria in the United States after Lombardi's Pizza (Lombardi's closed for a decade from 1984 to 1994 and was reopened under new management). History Papa's Tomato Pies was established by Giuseppe "Joe" Papa in 1912 on South Clinton Avenue in Trenton. Before opening his own restaurant, Papa learned the trade from Joe's Tomato Pies, which opened in 1910, and closed in the late 1980s. A few years after opening, it moved to Butler Street and in 1945, the restaurant moved to 804 Chambers Street where it would remain until 2013. During the 1950s and 1960s Papa's would remain open until 3 am serving late workers and patrons who just left local bars. Joe Papa's daughter, Teresa " ...
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Genovese Crime Family
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Pizza Hall Of Fame
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