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First Impressions: Marinara Pizza
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
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I’ve been to 2 locations. Its pretty good.
I ordered this past weekend, i enjoyed the pizzas.
I ordered a pizza at 5 pm this evening and it arrived lukewarm at 5:45 pm and the cheese was congealed. I am guessing the pizza was sitting around and that they threw the toppings I wanted on top (the onions were raw) and delivered the pizza without heating it. Not a good beginning.
Pizza was good but a block away and it was delivered cold so agree it had to have been sitting there for a while.
Location, staff, and vibe, A+++++…
Pizza, my opinion super boring and generic. Not NYC enough for my taste.
I wish them luck though. I can’t even image the $$$ invested there.
I wish the new pizza places well. I hope they succeed on general principle. But I think we all realize that the steady closures of proper dining venues in our area and citywide, with the concomitant rise in the number of places that sell cheap, roughly-made, carbohydrate stomach-fillers is not a good sign for our society, right? I mean, I like pizza as much as the next American, but if you’re keeping score, the per capita proliferation of such places is a distinctly negative trend. Most families can’t afford to go out to dinner much right now. The fix, while convenient for busy working people, isn’t to provide cheap, bottom-line sustenance.
I had a very bad experience with this shop on Thursday. I ordered 6 pies lite sauce and well done. When the pizza arrived they were undercooked and loaded with sauce, the pizza was all over the place – sauce running out of the box – pizza turned upside down. I tried to call several times Thursday, Friday with no answer! Finally Monday I walked over to the shop and spoke to Carmen who said she was the manager. I explain what happened and she said pizza went out the way I ordered it. I offered to show her pictures but she didn’t want to see them I then asked to speak to the owners, she told me she would send them a message to call me. Well its now Wednesday and no call. We spent almost $200 and had to throw out 5 of the 6 pies. This is no way to run a business. I have also tried to reach the General Manager – I left him 3 messages and no response from him.
This was my first experience with this pizza shop and will be my last if this is not fixed!!