Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Restaurants OMG, OMG, OMG
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:05 AM
Varasano's Pizzeria opens Tuesday night...or maybe Wednesday. Yes, Wednesday. (Unless it's Thursday.) The anticipation is unbearable. Foodie bloggers, many of whom have sampled Jeff Varasano's pizza at his home, are twittering like starving pigeons in Vatican Square. Honestly, I hear the face of the Virgin Mary appears regularly on Varasano's pies.
Anyway, the latest announcement really is a Wednesday opening. Y'all go and let us know if the pizza is as polyorgasmic as the worshipful claim.
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I live in Atlanta, bake pizzas at home, and have really appreciated Jeff V.'s website and thoughts on making a pizza, but... COME ON! His ideas are not original: - his dough recipe and approach (autolyse, fridge aging, etc.) are very similar to Peter Reinhart's, not to mention Alton Brown, et al. - he didn't come up with the idea of using the oven's cleaning cycle--JEFFREY STEINGARTEN published this article almost 10 years ago. (see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2002/oct/13/foodanddrink.features5) Jeff V even references reading it in 2005! (see: (see: http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=cccc3a3764f36ef19b59ae5943975856&topic=790.msg7142#msg7142) So, I'm sure Jeff's pizza is great, but...come on!
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TOM MAICON of Atlanta Cuisine mentioned this. With all the passion this guy Varasano has for pizzas, we never see him making the pizzas. (probably still too busy entertaining people at his home) Few times that I have been there, there was someone else working the oven. I don't think that person has passion.
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