I’ll get back for a sit down, since the upstairs dining area is super. But Marinara Pizza, which took over the entire Sushi of Gari building on Duane and West Broadway, is open and selling pies, slices, pasta dishes and Italian entrees.

Not sure how this pays the mortgage on a building like that (!) but the space is great — bright and white with fun details and a great upstairs seating area that screams kid birthday parties or little league team dinners.

I would say this is a slice shop plus plus– no new-wave pizzas here (though there is a cauliflower crust option), but much more to the menu — like the Italian pizza places I am used to on Long Island. They have Sicilian and regular pies, with the usual offerings: chicken, meat, white, etc. But they also have salads, pasta dishes, and entrees: eggplant parm, chicken piccata, meatball parm. There are starters, french fries as a side, burnt broccoli, which I will get next time.

They have calzone but also rolls and what they called a pinwheel — I got the broccoli — and it comes with a sauce dipper.

No table service that I could see…

A plain pie is $19; a plain Sicilian is $30.

More TK when I can sit down.

Marinara Pizza
130 West Broadway at Duane
Seven days, 11 am – 9 pm