Luzzo's & Da Mikele
On my birthday weekend, Alex and I were going to have a quiet, peaceful dinner at Luzzo's, a brick oven pizza place near Alphabet City. The place was small and people waiting for tables were squashed all around the entrance. The hostess said we could sit downstairs, so we headed down a rickety staircase but when we entered the dining area in the basement, a bunch of people sitting at a long table shouted "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" and hoisted gifts and iPhones in the air. I gasped, froze for a few moments, and then turned around and started sobbing, happy tears of course. There are videos of this on people's iPhones apparently...how embarrassing! I was a little bit too aflutter to really remember what we ate, but between our group of 8 people, we split 4 pizzas. Thinking back on it now, I literally don't remember what we ate, but I do remember it was good. The pizza was a bit soggy after a while because we all started swapping slices/fourths of ...